tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-259797352024-03-19T03:49:43.804-07:00Clean Up City of St. Augustine, FloridaIn secret, behind locked gates, our Nation's Oldest City dumped a landfill in a lake (Old City Reservoir), while emitting sewage in our rivers and salt marsh. Organized citizens exposed and defeated pollution, racism and cronyism. We elected a new Mayor. We're transforming our City -- advanced citizenship. Ask questions. Make disclosures. Demand answers. Be involved. Expect democracy. Report and expose corruption. Smile! Help enact a St. Augustine National Park and Seashore. We shall overcome! Ed Slavinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00298486886820876739noreply@blogger.comBlogger15455125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25979735.post-57809178913619037812024-03-18T10:47:00.000-07:002024-03-18T11:01:53.638-07:00March 19, 2024 vote on proposed SJC County Administrator Contract -- FULL TEXT.<p>Looks like long delay in negotiating contract has resulted in better drafting. What do y'all think, dear readers? Prior County Commissioner contracts were negotiated under the Sunshine. Despite this precedent, County negotiated County Administrator JOY ANDREWS contract in secret. All contract formation documents must be disclosed. As President Woodrow Wilson said, "Open covenants, openly arrived at." </p><p><a href="https://stjohnsclerk.com/minrec/agendas/2024/031924cd/03-19-24REG07.pdf">https://stjohnsclerk.com/minrec/agendas/2024/031924cd/03-19-24REG07.pdf</a></p><div class="page" title="Page 1"><table style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse;"><colgroup><col style="width: 0px;"></col><col style="width: 0px;"></col></colgroup><tbody><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="2" style="background-color: #d9d9d9; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: solid; border-width: 0.48pt;"></td><td style="background-color: #d9d9d9; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: solid; border-width: 0.48pt;"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: BookmanOldStyle; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700;">AGENDA ITEM<br />ST. JOHNS COUNTY BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS</span></p></div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="background-color: #d9d9d9; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: solid; border-width: 0.48pt;"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: BookmanOldStyle; font-size: 9pt; font-style: italic;">Deadline for Submission - Wednesday 9 a.m. </span><span style="font-family: BookmanOldStyle; font-size: 9pt; font-style: italic;">– </span><span style="font-family: BookmanOldStyle; font-size: 9pt; font-style: italic;">Thirteen Days Prior to </span><span style="font-family: BookmanOldStyle; font-size: 9pt;">BCC Meeting</span></p></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: BookmanOldStyle; font-size: 9pt; font-weight: 700;">3/19/2024 BCC MEETING DATE</span></p><p><span style="font-family: BookmanOldStyle; font-size: 9pt; font-weight: 700;">TO: Joy Andrews, County Administrator DATE: FROM: Sarah Arnold, Chairman<br />SUBJECT OR TITLE: County Administrator Contract<br />AGENDA TYPE: Business Item, Contract</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #d9d9d9; font-family: BookmanOldStyle; font-size: 9pt; font-weight: 700;">BACKGROUND INFORMATION:</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: BookmanOldStyle; font-size: 9pt; font-weight: 700;">March 5, 2024 PHONE: 904 209-0300</span></p></div></div><img alt="page1image1023389744" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/29262922-23d2-4893-a3fa-a807c3ea25b8" width="181.700000" /> <img alt="page1image1023390048" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/13fff2f2-12b5-498f-be04-30593785c0d4" width="243.290000" /> <img alt="page1image1023390352" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/7fbeda62-18c7-44b8-9733-d690f102ea63" width="39.240000" /> <img alt="page1image1023390656" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/eb08930f-64f3-49a6-ade6-b22c59bef15e" width="160.730000" /> <img alt="page1image1023391088" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/5e229af0-fed9-40b6-8b5d-9d1b27c3f675" width="54.480000" /><img alt="page1image1023391392" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/1a3e8006-d32b-4113-a558-7af0468a30e2" width="219.170000" /> <img alt="page1image1023391696" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/21ef7e60-6924-4d69-9de5-341933b90e5b" width="161.210000" /><img alt="page1image1023392000" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/1ca482dd-17c0-4700-832f-31c0f10b1607" width="439.180000" /> <img alt="page1image1023392304" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/23cf635e-b9aa-477b-99a1-28f7810ee4aa" width="162.500000" /><img alt="page1image1023392608" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/aeb2ed8a-114f-406e-9bcf-ae7bf8eb4413" width="276.190000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: BookmanOldStyle; font-size: 11pt;">The Board engaged GovHR USA to conduct a national search to hire a new county administrator. The Board appointed a selection committee to interview top-tier candidates and make a recommendation to the Board regarding which candidates to interview. GovHR USA provided the selection committee with the list of all applicants, as well as a recommended shortlist. The selection committee met in a public meeting to review this information and provided its guidance regarding which candidates are recommended for in-person interviews with the Board. On October 31, 2023, the Board selected Joy Andrews as County Administrator. This item represents the Contract between Joy Andrews and the County to serve as County Administrator.</span></p></div></div><img alt="page1image1762738016" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/41e302b0-f85d-47e1-81de-a431e416fbbf" width="141.500000" /> <img alt="page1image1762738320" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/c3327b06-46bb-47a4-8932-8f17427e7fc7" width="36.744000" /> <img alt="page1image1762738624" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/96a6c501-2a91-44d8-9329-1ad396d2dea1" width="40.440000" /> <img alt="page1image1762738928" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/285df5d1-bc2a-40f0-98f5-a257ffdf5a26" width="215.690000" /> <img alt="page1image1762739232" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/d7da053b-e14f-432b-89a2-0aa98bf19733" width="61.224000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: BookmanOldStyle; font-size: 9pt; font-weight: 700;">1. IS FUNDING REQUIRED? </span><span style="font-family: BookmanOldStyle; font-size: 9pt;">Yes </span><span style="font-family: BookmanOldStyle; font-size: 9pt; font-weight: 700;">2. IF YES, INDICATE IF BUDGETED. </span><span style="font-family: BookmanOldStyle; font-size: 9pt;">Yes </span><span style="font-family: BookmanOldStyle; font-size: 9pt; font-weight: 700;">IF FUNDING IS REQUIRED, MANDATORY OMB REVIEW IS REQUIRED:<br />INDICATE FUNDING SOURCE: </span><span style="font-family: BookmanOldStyle; font-size: 9pt; font-weight: 700;">FY2024 Adopted Budget County General Fund</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #d9d9d9; font-family: BookmanOldStyle; font-size: 9pt; font-weight: 700;">SUGGESTED MOTION/RECOMMENDATION/ACTION:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: BookmanOldStyle; font-size: 11pt;">Motion </span><span style="font-family: BookmanOldStyle; font-size: 11pt;">to a</span><span style="font-family: BookmanOldStyle; font-size: 11pt;">pprov</span><span style="font-family: BookmanOldStyle; font-size: 11pt;">e </span><span style="font-family: BookmanOldStyle; font-size: 11pt;">the terms and conditions of the </span><span style="font-family: BookmanOldStyle; font-size: 11pt;">Professional Services Agreement between St. Johns County and </span><span style="font-family: BookmanOldStyle; font-size: 11pt;">the County Administrator </span><span style="font-family: BookmanOldStyle; font-size: 11pt;">J</span><span style="font-family: BookmanOldStyle; font-size: 11pt;">oy </span><span style="font-family: BookmanOldStyle; font-size: 11pt;">Andrews</span><span style="font-family: BookmanOldStyle; font-size: 11pt;">, </span><span style="font-family: BookmanOldStyle; font-size: 11pt;">and </span><span style="font-family: BookmanOldStyle; font-size: 11pt;">to </span><span style="font-family: BookmanOldStyle; font-size: 11pt;">authoriz</span><span style="font-family: BookmanOldStyle; font-size: 11pt;">e </span><span style="font-family: BookmanOldStyle; font-size: 11pt;">the Chairman, or designee, to execute </span><span style="font-family: BookmanOldStyle; font-size: 11pt;">the agreement on </span><span style="font-family: BookmanOldStyle; font-size: 11pt;">behalf of the County.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: BookmanOldStyle; font-size: 9pt; font-weight: 700;">For Administration Use Only:<br />Legal: Olivia Willis 3/11/2024 OMB: </span><span style="font-family: BookmanOldStyle; font-size: 9pt; font-weight: 700;">JDD </span><span style="font-family: BookmanOldStyle; font-size: 9pt; font-weight: 700;">3/1</span><span style="font-family: BookmanOldStyle; font-size: 9pt; font-weight: 700;">3</span><span style="font-family: BookmanOldStyle; font-size: 9pt; font-weight: 700;">/2024 Admin: Olivia Willis 3/11/2024</span></p></div></div><img alt="page1image1762805712" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/75887854-869e-480c-8136-41a5319fd9b8" width="37.224000" /> <img alt="page1image1762806016" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/e28ec510-e726-4f8d-b60c-330a0459b804" width="549.120000" /><img alt="page1image1762807232" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/317cd84a-afa7-4eba-b8fb-4fe1e7921291" width="549.120000" /><img alt="page1image1762807536" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/d70dc0ce-3147-463a-ab4f-d869adf962b3" width="549.600000" /></div><div class="page" title="Page 2"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">PROFESSIONAL SERVICES AGREEMENT BETWEEN<br />ST. JOHNS COUNTY, FLORIDA<br />AND<br />JUNYAO ANDREWS</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">THIS PROFESSIONAL SERVICES AGREEMENT </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 12pt;">(Agreement), made and entered into this 19</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 8pt; vertical-align: 5pt;">th </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 12pt;">day of March 2024, between St. Johns County (County), a political subdivision of the State of Florida, by and through the St. Johns County Board of Commissioners (Board) and JUNYAO ANDREWS (collectively "the Parties").</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">WHEREAS, </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 12pt;">on October 31, 2023, the Board and Junyao Andrews agreed to enter into an employment agreement to continue the professional services of Junyao Andrews as County Administrator (County Administrator), in accordance with Chapter 125, Florida Statutes and the St. Johns County Code of Ordinances (the Employment Agreement); and</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">WHEREAS, </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 12pt;">the Board and the County Administrator desire to enter into an agreement; and </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">WHEREAS, </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 12pt;">the Board further desires to provide certain compensation and establish</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 12pt;">conditions of continued employment, in order to:</span></p><ol><li style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 12pt;"><p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">provide inducement for County Administrator to remain in such employment; and</span></p></li><li style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 12pt;"><p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">encourage full work productivity by assuring County Administrator's high morale and</span></p></li></ol><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 12pt;">future security; and</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 12pt;">3. provide a just means for the separation of the County Administrator's services at such time as she may be unable or unwilling to fully discharge her duties, or when the Board may otherwise desire to discontinue her employment; and</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 12pt;">4. recognize the non-political and impartial nature of the work of County Administrator as well as the grave threat posed by subjecting the county administrator to political influence, which will result in consequences of suffered essential services the county residents expected of her. Therefore, in the event that the County Administrator is subject to adverse political consequences that are not directly related to the Administrator's professional competency or work productivity, the County agrees to provide political adverse risk protection provisions include but not limited to fair evaluation process clause, non-discrimination clause, performance evaluation criteria, contract termination safeguards; and</span></p><ol start="5"><li style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 12pt;"><p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">provide a deterrent against malfeasance or dishonesty for personal gain; and</span></p></li><li style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 12pt;"><p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">assure that the terms and conditions of the employment relationship are understood by</span></p></li></ol><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 12pt;">the parties hereto.</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 11pt;">1</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 3"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">WHEREAS, </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 12pt;">upon execution of this Agreement, the Board and the County Administrator hereby acknowledge that all terms and conditions contained in the previous Employment Agreement shall be deemed terminated and such termination of the Employment Agreement shall not be deemed nor construed as a break in the County Administrator's services to, or employment with, the County; and</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">WHEREAS, </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 12pt;">as more specifically detailed in Article VI below, in addition to the compensation and benefits provided pursuant to this Agreement, the County Administrator shall be entitled to the accumulation of deferred compensation and accrued, but unused, leave provided pursuant to the Employment Agreement; and</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">WHEREAS, </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 12pt;">the terms and conditions contained herein shall supersede any and all previous agreements regarding professional services by the County Administrator.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">NOW, THEREFORE, </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 12pt;">in consideration of the mutual covenants contained herein, the parties agree as follows:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">Article I. Effect of Recitals</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 12pt;">The above recitals are incorporated as a material part of this Agreement.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">Article II. County Administrator Duties and Obligations</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">(1) </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 12pt;">The County Administrator agrees to remain in the exclusive employment of the County for the duration of this Agreement and perform the duties set forth in section 125.74, F.S. and County Ordinance No. 2010-47, each as amended.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">(2) </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 12pt;">The County Administrator may engage in outside employment, such as teaching, speaking, or consulting work, provided such part-time activities do not interfere or conflict in time or interest with her responsibilities to the County, as interpreted solely by the Board. Nothing contained in this Agreement shall be construed to interfere with or to limit the County Administrator's military leave or civilian employment rights, as provided by applicable law.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">(3) </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 11pt;">The County Administrator shall reside within the County limits during her tenure in office. </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">Article III. Term and Renewal</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">(1) Term. </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 12pt;">The term of this Agreement will be effective on October 31, 2023 (Effective Date), through and until November 1, 2027 (Expiration Date), unless renewed or earlier terminated as provided herein.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">(2) Renewal. </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 12pt;">This Agreement may be renewed for additional terms of four (4) years (Renewed Term) upon mutual consent of the Parties, unless the Board provides written notice to the County Administrator of its intent not to renew at least one hundred eighty (180) days prior to the Expiration Date. The duration of the Renewed Term may be modified by an affirmative vote of a majority of the full membership of the Board.</span></p></div></div><img alt="page3image1044101776" height="1.560000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/9985b173-6fc6-4e48-8bbc-3665dbc567d3" width="80.040000" /> <img alt="page3image1044102080" height="1.560000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/2cdcbbfd-bcc7-44fe-9d8f-026d2642482d" width="215.760000" /> <img alt="page3image1044102384" height="1.560000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/69fd0420-abbe-46f7-bdb7-bc0a2d81856a" width="89.880000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 11pt;">2</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 4"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">Article IV. Termination, Resignation and Suspension</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">(1) </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 12pt;">Termination by the Board. The Board retains the irrevocable right to terminate this Agreement at any time, subject only to the applicable provisions of Chapter 125, Florida Statutes, the County Code of Ordinances and those provisions contained in this Agreement where matters of termination and severance are addressed, including fair evaluation process clause, non-discrimination clause, performance evaluation criteria. Upon such termination, all services of the County Administrator shall also terminate. For purposes of Section 125.73, F.S., should the County Administrator request a hearing, such request shall be provided to the Board within three (3) business days of the notice of proposed termination.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">(2) </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 12pt;">Resignation by the County Administrator. The County Administrator retains the right to resign at any time. In such event, the County Administrator must provide the County with no less than one hundred and twenty (120) days prior written notice of the effective date of the resignation. This Agreement shall immediately terminate with no further action required by the Board upon the effective date of such resignation.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">(3) </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 12pt;">Suspension by the Board. The parties hereby acknowledge that the Board is authorized to suspend the County Administrator with full pay and benefits at any time during the effective term of this Agreement, if: (1) a super majority of the members of the Board and the County Administrator mutually agree; or if (2) after a public hearing in which a super majority of the members of the Board votes to suspend the County Administrator for Cause (as defined herein), subject to the County providing the County Administrator written notice of all charges and/or allegations giving rise to such Cause by no less than ten (10) days prior to the public hearing. For purposes of this Agreement, "Cause" is the County Administrator's misconduct as defined in section 443.036(29), F.S. or the County Administrator's commission of an illegal act, including but not limited to a judicial or administrative agency finding of a violation of the Government in the Sunshine Act (Chapter 286, F.S.), the Public Records Law (Chapter 119, F.S.) or of the Ethics Law (Chapter 11, Part III).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">Article V. Political Adverse Risk Protection Provision:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">(1) </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 12pt;">In the event that the County Administrator is subject to adverse political consequences unrelated to the Administrator's professional competency or work productivity, the County agrees to adhere to the following principles:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 12pt;">• Performance Evaluation Criteria: The evaluation of the County Administrator's performance shall be based solely on objective criteria related to the Administrator's professional competence, adherence to job responsibilities, and work productivity. Political considerations that do not directly impact job performance shall not be considered in performance assessments.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 12pt;">• Fair Evaluation Process: The County commits to conducting fair and impartial evaluations of the Administrator's performance, utilizing established performance indicators and benchmarks. The evaluation process shall be transparent, providing the Administrator with an opportunity to address any concerns or disputes.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 12pt;">• Non-Discrimination: The County agrees not to discriminate against the Administrator based on political affiliation, beliefs, or any factors unrelated to the Administrator's professional duties. Employment decisions, including but not limited to promotions, salary adjustments, or terminations, shall be made solely on the basis of job-related criteria.</span></p></div></div><img alt="page4image1837129504" height="1.560000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/19f3d2df-23ba-4513-b34e-8f8de2b7d718" width="196.200000" /> <img alt="page4image1837129808" height="1.320000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/f32b349b-f763-4bb7-824d-57fe158bce80" width="125.040000" /> <img alt="page4image1837130112" height="1.320000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/99087536-488b-4be7-a9ee-d03bdf2d9627" width="190.560000" /> <img alt="page4image1837130416" height="1.320000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/ef33061e-5fd3-44aa-ac2e-8f1a022591c7" width="116.040000" /><img alt="page4image1837130720" height="1.560000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/ff19665c-89d2-4d3e-a978-9b7990dad1b3" width="206.520000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 11pt;">3</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 5"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">(2) </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 12pt;">Contract Termination Safeguards: In the absence of a breach of professional duties or work productivity, the County Administrator shall be entitled to due process before any termination of the Agreement. The County will provide the Administrator with written notice of concerns, an opportunity to respond, and an impartial review process before making any decisions related to termination.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">Article VI. Compensation</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">(1) </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 12pt;">Annual Base Salary. As compensation for the services described in this Agreement, the County shall pay the County Administrator an annual base salary of two hundred eighty-five thousand dollars and no cents ($285,000.00), payable in equal installments in accordance with </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 11pt;">applicable County policy. Such compensation shall be annually adjusted by five percent (5%) increase of the then existing base annual salary as a cost of living allowance or Board approved annual increase for countywide employees, whichever is greater, effective the first full pay period of October each calendar year.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">(2) </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 12pt;">Benefits. The County Administrator shall be included in the Florida State Senior Management Retirement classification, and shall be provided any benefits thereof that are in addition to those afforded by this Agreement. If elected by the County Administrator, the County shall pay any cost related for the conversion from the defined contribution plan to the defined benefit plan in the Florida State Retirement System. The County shall provide for one hundred percent (100%) of the County group health insurance plan premium for the County Administrator and her eligible dependents. The County shall pay the County Administrator the premium for an accidental death and dismemberment insurance policy pertaining to her person, for a policy amount of Five Hundred Thousand and No/100 Dollars ($500,000.00). Such compensation may be included in the County Administrator's annual compensation plan and gross income as reported in accordance with IRS guidelines. The County Administrator shall be entitled to all other County Employee benefits and resources described in the policies and procedures including but not limited to County’s Administrative Code.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">(3) </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 12pt;">Deferred Compensation. Beginning October 31, 2023, in addition to her annual base salary, the County agrees to contribute seven percent (7%) of the County Administrator’s current Annual Base Salary per year to the County's deferred compensation program. Such deferred compensation shall accrue during the County Administrator's service to the County. Upon the County Administrator's termination or resignation, such accrued amounts may be left in the chosen program, or received by the County Administrator in accordance with rules and requirements of the program and applicable IRS guidelines. Such compensation shall be included in the County Administrator's annual compensation plan and gross income as reported in accordance with IRS guidelines.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">(4) </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 12pt;">General Benefits. The County Administrator shall be entitled to participate in, and receive residual benefits from, all other fringe benefit programs generally offered to other County employees, as they are applied to senior management. These shall include, but not be limited to, group insurance coverage, vacation leave allowances, sick and personal leave allowances, and the Florida State Retirement System. The County Administrator shall accrue vacation leave at a rate of thirty (30) working days per year. Accrued, but unused, vacation leave may be paid upon separation of employment but shall not exceed 385 hours. Similarly, the County Administrator shall be entitled to cash out up to twelve working days of accrued vacation leave each calendar year. In accordance with the Administrative Code, accrued, but unused, sick leave may be paid upon separation of</span></p></div></div><img alt="page5image1047555664" height="1.560000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/a4474637-9bde-450b-a871-a6c0d7c8807d" width="67.800000" /> <img alt="page5image1047555968" height="1.320000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/13a09b89-3a38-4bc2-8224-55c3be329b8a" width="92.760000" /> <img alt="page5image1047556272" height="1.320000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/fc1c71ba-8c05-4af0-91b4-535449cdde57" width="41.280000" /> <img alt="page5image1047556576" height="1.320000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/fc1242d8-4db7-4b21-9242-0d1fc973fd4a" width="113.280000" /> <img alt="page5image1047556880" height="1.320000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/d21d48ea-f146-4be0-bc58-75c76a6e0cf4" width="81.840000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 11pt;">4</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 6"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 12pt;">employment at a rate of one- fourth (1/4) of all unused accrued sick leave in full. Except as otherwise stated in this section, the County's vacation and sick leave programs shall apply to the County Administrator as they are applied to senior management pursuant to the Administrative Code, provided that the County Administrator complies with the terms of this Agreement.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">(5) </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 12pt;">Accumulation of Benefits. The Parties hereby acknowledge and agree that, in addition to the compensation and benefits described above in Article VI of this Agreement, the County Administrator shall be credited with the accumulated amount of deferred compensation and accrued, but unused, leave provided in accordance with the Employment Agreement through and until the Employment Agreement termination date.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">Article VII. Transportation.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">(1) </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 12pt;">The County Administrator shall be responsible for providing her own automobile, and the County shall pay the County Administrator a monthly transportation allowance of seven hundred and forty-nine dollars ($749) and is subject to annual indexing based on changes in the Consumer Price Index (CPI-U) or another relevant cost of living index.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">(2) </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 12pt;">Within no more than thirty (30) calendar days of the Effective Date, at her sole cost and expense, the County Administrator shall secure and maintain a policy of automobile insurance acceptable to the County with limits of no less than one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) per person and three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000) per occurrence for bodily injury liability, and one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for property damage or the minimum required by Florida State law, whichever is greater. A copy of a current insurance policy plus any amendments thereto will be kept on file with the County at all times during the term of this Agreement.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">Article VIII. Expenses</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 12pt;">The County recognizes that certain activities and functions related to the County Administrator's position may entail costs associated with functions where the County Administrator is participating as a representative of the County or necessary in the performance of official duties. These costs include but not limited to public relations, community and employees engagement, communication and other operation related expenses, The County shall provide the County Administrator with a miscellaneous expenses allowance in the amount of Eight hundred and forty nine dollars ($849) to the County Administrator to cover reasonable and necessary business-related expenses incurred in the performance of official duties, and the amount is subject to annual indexing based on changes in the Consumer Price Index (CPI-U) or another relevant cost of living index. The purpose of this allowance is to facilitate the efficient execution of the County Administrator's responsibilities.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">Article IX. Continued Professional Development and Education</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 12pt;">The County Administrator commits to actively participate in professional development activities and pursue ongoing education relevant to county governance and administration. This includes workshops, seminars, conferences, and advanced education opportunities. The Administrator agrees to stay informed of industry trends, engage in collaborative learning, provide regular reports on completed activities.</span></p></div></div><img alt="page6image1047872608" height="1.320000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/1bed3504-a7b1-4689-9763-d77d98cf9808" width="120.960000" /> <img alt="page6image1047872912" height="1.560000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/f771a97e-6638-4f01-93b9-7ed4483f977f" width="74.880000" /> <img alt="page6image1047873216" height="1.560000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/d880d177-b641-41d7-a937-65f0310cf049" width="43.440000" /> <img alt="page6image1047873520" height="1.560000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/6e0b33ea-0b44-41c9-9d16-247d4ba32a2f" width="245.640000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 11pt;">5</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 7"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 12pt;">The County recognizes the importance of fostering continuous professional development for the County Administrator to enhance skills, knowledge, and capabilities relevant to their role in serving the community. Therefore, the County agrees to budget and pay for Professional Development and Education Expense to support the County Administrator's ongoing professional development and continued education. Allowable expenses include but not limited to travel, lodging hospitality, tuition and registration fees for courses, workshops, seminars, and conferences directly related to the County Administrator's role and responsibilities; Costs associated with professional certifications and licenses relevant to the County Administrator's position; Expenses related to obtaining education or training that enhance the County Administrator's skills and expertise in county governance and administration.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">Article X. Office Space, Supplies and Equipment</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 12pt;">The County will provide the County Administrator with sufficient office space, office equipment, and other resources, supplies, materials, and equipment that are reasonably necessary to enable County Administrator to perform the services expected of a County Administrator. "Reasonably necessary" shall be deemed to include reasonable electronic equipment (laptop computer, cellular telephone, remote access, etc.), software, and communication ability for County Administrator to perform duties while at home or traveling. In addition, the County agrees to provide County Administrator with assistants, support staff, and experts reasonably necessary to enable County Administrator to perform the duties of County Administrator.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">Article XI. Severance Pay</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">(1) </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 12pt;">In accordance with section 215.425, F.S., the County Administrator shall not be entitled to severance pay if she is terminated by the Board for misconduct as defined in section 443.036(29), F.S., or if he is terminated for Cause as defined in this Agreement.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">(2) </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 12pt;">In the event that the County Administrator is terminated by the Board for reasons other than misconduct or Cause, the County agrees to provide the County Administrator severance pay in an amount equal to twenty (20) weeks of compensation at her then existing rate of pay; and, continuation of group insurance coverage for the County Administrator and her eligible dependents for a period of twenty (20) weeks, which coverage shall be equivalent to the level of coverage provided on the date of termination. The cost of such coverage to the County shall not exceed the County's cost for such group insurance coverage on the date of County Administrator's termination. Any cost for coverage above that amount shall be the responsibility of the County Administrator. The severance pay provided may not exceed an amount greater than 20 weeks of compensation as described herein.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">(3) </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 12pt;">If the County at any time reduces the County Administrator's annual base salary or other benefits described herein by a percentage greater than that of an across-the-board reduction for all County employees; or if after forty-five (45) days prior written notice, the County refuses to comply with any material provision of this Agreement, the County Administrator may, at her option, consider herself terminated for reasons other than misconduct or Cause, and applicable severance provisions contained in this Agreement shall be effective.</span></p></div></div><img alt="page7image1763239392" height="1.560000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/f7917a38-9e3b-41b7-856f-614c277f9733" width="180.000000" /> <img alt="page7image1763239696" height="1.560000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/793347ca-64fb-4051-a6ca-48d55f7cb182" width="68.160000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 11pt;">6</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 8"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">Article XII. Bonding</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 12pt;">The County shall bear the full cost of any fidelity or other bonds required of the County Administrator by applicable law or ordinance.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">Article XIII. Performance Review and Evaluation</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">(1) </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 12pt;">Review and Evaluation. For the effective term of this Agreement, at intervals of no more than once per fiscal year between August 1</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 8pt; vertical-align: 5pt;">st </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 12pt;">and September 30</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 8pt; vertical-align: 5pt;">th</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 12pt;">, the Board Chair (Chair) may review and evaluate the County Administrator's performance. At the Chair's discretion, the review and evaluation may be conducted either formally during a scheduled Board meeting or informally, subject to applicable local, state and federal open government provisions.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">(2) </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 12pt;">Scope of the Review and Evaluation. The review and evaluation will assess the County Administrator's performance of all duties and responsibilities, and her exercise of the powers granted under this Agreement during the immediately preceding twelve (12) month period.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">(3) </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 12pt;">Recommendation by the Chair. Within sixty (60) calendar days of such review and evaluation, the Chair will provide the County Administrator and each member of the Board a written recommendation regarding the County Administrator's performance. As part of such review, if the Chair determines that the County Administrator meets or exceeds expectations, the County Administrator's current annual base salary shall be increased by an amount equal to the amount of the maximum performance increase offered to County employees as part of the contemporaneous budget approval process. If no performance increases are offered to County employees as part of such budget approval process, the County agrees to provide a performance increase of up to three percent (3%) of the County Administrator’s current Annual Base Salary, as determined by the discretion of the Chair.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">(4) </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 12pt;">Duty of the County Administrator. By no later than July 31</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 8pt; vertical-align: 5pt;">st </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 12pt;">of each year of the effective term of this Agreement, the County Administrator shall submit to the Chair a memorandum requesting review and evaluation of her performance.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">(5) </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 12pt;">Effect of No Review and Evaluation. In the event that the Chair does not conduct the review and evaluation in any given year or years during the effective term of this Agreement, such event shall not constitute a breach of this Agreement. In such instance, the County Administrator shall receive a performance increase of three percent (3%) of the County Administrator’s current Annual Base Salary, </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 11pt;">effective the first full pay period of October each calendar year.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">(6) </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 12pt;">Goals and Objectives. Annually, the Board and the County Administrator may jointly define goals and performance objectives that are necessary for the proper operation of the County and to attain the Board's policy objectives. The Parties may also establish and reduce to writing a relative priority among those various goals and performance objectives, in light of the County's annual, operating and capital budgets and appropriations.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">Article XV. Indemnification</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 12pt;">To the extent required and otherwise allowed by law and local regulation, but subject to the limitations set forth in Section 768.28, Florida Statutes, and as otherwise may be limited or prohibited by law, and without waiving the sovereign immunity of the Board or the County, the Board agrees</span></p></div></div><img alt="page8image1048290560" height="1.560000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/98bd5f87-bfec-42c2-a9c9-21b1f0ab7181" width="39.720000" /> <img alt="page8image1048290864" height="1.560000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/721a6b81-bd03-4a65-8b83-0217480a038a" width="172.680000" /> <img alt="page8image1048291168" height="1.320000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/ec7662bc-a42c-436f-bd69-273b659150b4" width="110.880000" /> <img alt="page8image1048291472" height="1.320000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/b20a72f1-b48a-49ab-9716-2faf11b75640" width="179.760000" /> <img alt="page8image1048291776" height="1.320000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/c661c813-c582-4f2f-b199-d0255e06394b" width="142.200000" /><img alt="page8image1048292080" height="1.320000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/42dc88d1-bce4-4c2d-8fc0-838a17bd2510" width="162.120000" /> <img alt="page8image1048292384" height="1.320000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/67301fcb-c410-436f-b65a-948f3cbe53b6" width="169.080000" /> <img alt="page8image1048292688" height="1.320000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/298d9e25-16f5-4e10-b673-e1db8b857f7d" width="99.960000" /> <img alt="page8image1048293120" height="1.560000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/a8b0b5e0-c0aa-4619-b787-75dae9e3782d" width="75.120000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 11pt;">7</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 9"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 12pt;">that the County shall defend, hold harmless and indemnify the County Administrator against any tort, professional liability claim or demand or other legal or administrative action, whether groundless or otherwise, arising out of an alleged act or omission committed by County Administrator within the scope of her employment, provided that County Administrator timely reports the same to the Board and cooperates fully and honestly in the County's defense thereof. The Board may compromise and settle any such claim or suit and pay the amount of any settlement or judgment rendered thereon, subject to reimbursement by County Administrator if required by law. Said indemnification shall extend beyond termination of employment and expiration of this Agreement to provide full and complete protection to County Administrator by the County for any acts or omissions committed within the scope of her employment hereunder, regardless of whether the notice or filing of a lawsuit for such tort, claim, demand, or other legal or administrative action occurs during or following County Administrator's employment with the County. The provisions of this section shall not apply to any claim, demand, suit or cause brought or asserted against County Administrator for her acts or omissions committed while acting outside the course and scope of her employment under this Agreement or committed in bad faith or with malicious purpose or in a manner exhibiting wanton and willful disregard of human rights, safety, property or civil rights.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">Article XVI. General Terms, Conditions and Provisions</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">(1) </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 11pt;">It is understood and agreed by both parties that it is the sole and exclusive prerogative of the Board to grant salary and benefit increases, or other perquisites of office. These are proper subjects of negotiations during budget deliberations and performance evaluations, and both parties pledge their good-faith efforts in discussing these matters, keeping in mind the best interests of the County and the continued high morale of County Administrator.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">(2) </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 11pt;">The text herein shall constitute the entire Agreement between the parties, and shall be binding upon, and inure to, the benefit of the County Administrator, her heirs, and her executors.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">(3) </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 11pt;">If any provision or portion of this Agreement is held to be unconstitutional, invalid, or unenforceable by a court, of competent jurisdiction, it shall be severable, and the remainder of this Agreement shall continue in full force and effect.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">(4) </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 11pt;">Governing Law and Venue. This Agreement shall be construed according to the laws of State of Florida. Venue for any administrative and/or legal action arising under this Agreement shall be in St. Johns County, Florida.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 12pt;">The terms and conditions of this agreement shall continue to govern the employment relationship between the County Administrator and the Board of County Commissioners, with the addition of the converted pension plan.</span></p></div></div><img alt="page9image1044793712" height="1.560000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/ad29f410-402f-445b-8e2d-4e4579a7d06f" width="200.160000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 11pt;">8</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 10"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">IN WITNESS WHEREOF, </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 11pt;">the County, by its Chair of the Board of County Commissioners or other authorized official, and the County Administrator have signed and executed this Agreement on the day, month, and year first written above.</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 12pt;">ATTEST: Brandon J. Patty, Clerk </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 12pt;">of the Circuit Court and Comptroller</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 12pt;">By: Deputy Clerk</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 12pt;">ST. JOHNS COUNTY, FLORIDA, BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 12pt;">By: SARAH ARNOLD, CHAIR</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 12pt;">COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 12pt;">, </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 12pt;">JUNYAO ANDREWS</span></p></div></div><img alt="page10image1044565152" height="0.600000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/d1ee7a30-d63c-4778-9f64-e9633dab2480" width="216.650000" /> <img alt="page10image1044565456" height="0.600000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/17798c15-6ef1-4699-8b49-c1fc243167d3" width="216.650000" /> <img alt="page10image1044795600" height="0.600000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/3b04fa97-455c-4cf2-8cbb-d3548fadeed3" width="216.650000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 11pt;">9</span></p></div></div></div>Ed Slavinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00298486886820876739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25979735.post-18014338889561972002024-03-18T10:14:00.000-07:002024-03-18T10:14:39.745-07:00ANNALS OF DeSANTISTAN: Florida GOP suspends St. Johns County Chair Blake Paterson (Jacob Ogles, Florida Politics, March 14, 2024)<div class="wp-block-image" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(74, 74, 74); color: #4a4a4a; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><figure class="alignleft size-thumbnail" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: table; float: left; margin: 0.5em 1em 0.5em 0px;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-142943" decoding="async" height="150" sizes="(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" src="https://i0.wp.com/historiccity.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/275-GOP-PATERSON-4-25-2023.png?resize=150%2C150&ssl=1" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/historiccity.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/275-GOP-PATERSON-4-25-2023.png?resize=150%2C150&ssl=1 150w, https://i0.wp.com/historiccity.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/275-GOP-PATERSON-4-25-2023.png?resize=100%2C100&ssl=1 100w, https://i0.wp.com/historiccity.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/275-GOP-PATERSON-4-25-2023.png?w=275&ssl=1 275w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="150" /><br />Photo credit: HCN<br /></figure></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Dr. Blake Paterson, M.D., <span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(77, 81, 86); color: #4d5156;"> </span>St. Johns County Republican Executive Committee Chair, has been suspended by Republican Party of Florida. Dr. Paterson<span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(77, 81, 86); color: #4d5156;"> is a </span><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(77, 81, 86); color: #4d5156;">board certified anesthesiologist in Ponte Vedra. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://cleanupcityofstaugustine.blogspot.com/2018/06/ex-chair-sues-rpof-it-says-ousted-st.html">Not the first time that internecine disputes have resulted in a SJC REC Chair being kicked out of office by RPOF.</a>The late SJC REC Chair WILLIAM KORACH was also removed. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Is the developer codlock control of local politics being restored by the<i> ancien regime </i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">JFK said that "politics is a game of knives." </span></p><p><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Who knew that St. Johns County Republicans could be so lively? From <i>Florida Politics:</i></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #181818; caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: white; font-family: "roboto slab"; font-size: 50px; font-weight: 600;">Florida GOP suspends St. Johns County Chair Blake Paterson</span></p><article class="boldSection btArticle gutter divider btArticleWithSideInfo post-665111 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-headlines category-ne-florida tag-blake-paterson tag-evan-power tag-jamie-parham tag-republican-party-of-florida tag-st-johns-county tag-st-johns-county-gop btPostSingleItemStandard" style="background: repeat rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818; font-family: roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="port" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; border-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1); border-style: solid; border-width: 2px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px; max-width: 1326px; outline: 0px; padding: 30px;"><div class="boldCell" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="boldRow" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px -15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="rowItem col-sm-12 btTextLeft" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 15px; position: relative; width: 953px;"><div class="btArticleContentWrap" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="btArticleContent" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; border-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 1 1 15em; margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 30px 0px 60px;"><div class="btArticleExcerpt" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Roboto Slab"; font-size: 1.125em; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.55em; margin: 0px 0px 19.95px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">By Jacob Ogles, Florida Politics, March 14, 2024</div><div class="btArticleExcerpt" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Roboto Slab"; font-size: 1.125em; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.55em; margin: 0px 0px 19.95px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">A Vice Chair the state party said was wrongly suspended now takes over as acting Chair.</div><div class="btArticleBody portfolioBody btTextLeft" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="bt_bb_wrapper" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 0.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">The Republican Party of Florida (RPOF) has removed the <strong style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a data-wpel-link="external" href="https://stjohns.gop/" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; color: #181818; margin: 0px; outline: currentcolor; padding: 0px; transition: color 300ms;" target="_blank">St. Johns County GOP</a></strong>Chair.</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 0.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">State Chair <strong style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Evan Power </strong>informed <strong style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Blake Paterson </strong>in an email that he was removed, effective immediately, as both the St. Johns County Republican Executive Committee (REC) Chair and as a precinct committeeman. His duties will temporarily be assumed by <strong style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Jamie Parham</strong>, a county GOP Vice Chair whom the party said Paterson wrongly suspended months ago.</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 0.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">“You are prohibited from holding any position within the St. Johns GOP, the RPOF, or any RPOF chartered club in St. Johns County for a period of two (2) years,” Power wrote. “As such, you are also not eligible to be a member of the RPOF State Executive Committee, the RPOF State Executive Board, nor hold any position within a RPOF Congressional District Caucus for two (2) years.”</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 0.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">Paterson has been under fire for disparaging local GOP candidates and officials. A report by the state party’s Grievance Committee details specific instances where Paterson was accused of using his authority as county Chairman for personal grudges.</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 0.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">The report said Paterson allowed the St. Johns GOP’s <strong style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a data-wpel-link="external" href="https://twitter.com/StJohnsGOP" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; color: #181818; margin: 0px; outline: currentcolor; padding: 0px; transition: color 300ms;" target="_blank">official social media</a></strong> “to disparage Republican elected officials and promote and support their opponents without an endorsement of the REC,” a violation of state party rules.</p><div class="flori-content" id="flori-233972573" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><div id="post-ads" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="dfad dfad_pos_1 dfad_first" id="post-ads_ad_471365" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 15px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a data-wpel-link="external" href="https://www.psta.net/" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; color: #181818; margin: 0px; outline: currentcolor; padding: 0px; transition: color 300ms;" target="_blank"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-471366" decoding="async" fetchpriority="high" height="90" src="https://floridapolitics.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/MKTG_Florida-Politics-Ad-728x90_V1.jpg" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; border: medium; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; width: auto;" width="728" /></a></div></div></div><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 0.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">It also said Paterson suspended Parham, and later called police to prohibit Parham from attending multiple REC meetings.</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 0.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">“In the estimation of the Grievance Committee this is only the tip of the iceberg as it pertains to the problems in St. Johns County and the inability of Mr. Paterson to adequately perform his role as Chairman,” the grievance report reads. “The number of grievances this Committee has received from one County alone — St. Johns — is indicative of a failure of leadership at the top.”</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 0.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">The report said Paterson blamed the social media posts on <strong style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Natalie Lewis</strong>, who chaired an ad hoc social media committee for the party, but accepted blame as party Chair. Paterson also said the decision to suspend Parham has been made by the entire REC, but state party rules don’t allow a vote without notice on suspending an officer elected to a county post.</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 0.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">The Grievance Committee called the violations “egregious” and unanimously recommended his suspension.</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 0.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">“The St. Johns REC is broken. And while Mr. Paterson may not be responsible for everything that is wrong with the REC, as Chairman, he is responsible for much,” the report reads.</p><div class="flori-content_2" id="flori-1286440130" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><div id="post-ads" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="dfad dfad_pos_1 dfad_first" id="post-ads_ad_630109" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 15px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a data-wpel-link="external" href="http://www.helloguv.com/" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; color: #181818; margin: 0px; outline: currentcolor; padding: 0px; transition: color 300ms;" target="_blank"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-630110" decoding="async" height="90" src="https://floridapolitics.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/HelloGuv-720x90-001.png" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; border: medium; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; width: auto;" width="728" /></a></div></div></div><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 0.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">“But with responsibility also comes accountability. And that is the role of the Grievance Committee under the RPOF Rules, to recommend solutions to fix disputes between members of a county REC when such dispute cannot be resolved by the members of the REC. Here, we find such a serious situation that demands the RPOF’s attention.”</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 0.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">The report also suggested the specific grievances for which Paterson was suspended were the “tip of the iceberg.”</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 0.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">Paterson notably has made headlines for controversial remarks, like allegedly telling a Black Republican he <strong style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a data-wpel-link="external" href="https://flvoicenews.com/st-johns-gop-chair-says-district-wont-elect-a-person-of-color-darryl-boyer-fires-back/" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; color: #181818; margin: 0px; outline: currentcolor; padding: 0px; transition: color 300ms;" target="_blank">could not win</a></strong> a House seat.</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 0.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">With Paterson suspended, the role of Acting Chair falls to Parham, but Power directed that an election be held within 60 days to fill the remainder of Paterson’s term.</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 0.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">The county REC <strong style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a data-wpel-link="external" href="https://stjohns.gop/about/" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; color: #181818; margin: 0px; outline: currentcolor; padding: 0px; transition: color 300ms;" target="_blank">website</a></strong> still lists Paterson as Chair and Parham as Vice Chair.</p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></article><section class="boldSection gutter bottomMediumSpaced btAboutAutorSection" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818; font-family: roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2em;"><div class="port" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; margin: auto; max-width: 1326px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="boldRow" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px -15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="rowItem col-sm-12 btAboutAutor" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 15px; position: relative; width: 1017px;"><div class="btAboutAuthor" style="background: repeat rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1); box-sizing: border-box; display: table; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 30px 60px; text-align: justify; width: 987px;"><div class="aaAvatar" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; border-radius: 50%; box-sizing: border-box; display: table-cell; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top; width: 120px;"><img alt="" class="avatar avatar-280 photo wp-hovercard-attachment grav-hashed grav-hijack" height="140" loading="lazy" src="https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/c251b2c2210093620c96dbd06b8454bf?s=280&d=mm&r=g" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; border-radius: 50%; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: default; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 120px;" width="140" /></div><div class="aaTxt" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; display: table-cell; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1.875em; vertical-align: top;"><h4 style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: "roboto slab"; font-size: 1.875em; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.4em;">Jacob Ogles</h4><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 0.625em; opacity: 0.9; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Jacob Ogles has covered politics in Florida since 2000 for regional outlets including SRQ Magazine in Sarasota, The News-Press in Fort Myers and The Daily Commercial in Leesburg. His work has appeared nationally in The Advocate, Wired and other publications. Events like SRQ’s Where The Votes Are workshops made Ogles one of Southwest Florida’s most respected political analysts, and outlets like WWSB ABC 7 and WSRQ Sarasota have featured his insights. He can be reached at jacobogles@hotmail.com.</p></div></div></div></div></div></section>Ed Slavinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00298486886820876739noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25979735.post-51575315898984746652024-03-18T10:11:00.000-07:002024-03-18T10:11:31.822-07:00ANNALS OF DeSANTISTAN: Commentary: DeSantis adds homeless to his enemies list | Fred Grimm. (South Florida Sun Sentinel)<p>Hating on homeless people is another GQP priority here in DeSANTISTAN. 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font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Commentary: DeSantis adds homeless to his enemies list | Fred Grimm</span></h1></div></div></div></header><div class="article-content" style="-webkit-box-pack: justify; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; justify-content: space-between; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="article-content-wrapper" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; 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(Mike Stocker/South Florida Sun Sentinel)
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" /></div><figcaption style="border-color: currentcolor currentcolor rgb(200, 196, 192); border-image: none; border-style: none none solid; border-width: 0px 0px 3px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #75726a; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: 0.8125em; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px 0px 1.0625em; padding: 1.071429em 0em 0.714286em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">People have set up tents in a small homeless encampment in the Park and Ride parking lot off Broward Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale on Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024. (Mike Stocker/South Florida Sun Sentinel)</figcaption></figure><div class="meta" style="-webkit-box-align: center; align-items: center; border-color: currentcolor currentcolor rgb(200, 196, 192); border-image: none; border-style: none none solid; border-width: 0px 0px 3px; box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 1em; vertical-align: baseline; width: 954.875px;"><img alt="Author" class="avatar avatar-85 photo avatar-default coauthor-avatar" height="85" src="https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/?s=85&d=mm&r=g" srcset="https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/?s=170&d=mm&r=g 2x" style="align-self: baseline; 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font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px calc(12.5% + 0.15rem); padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: calc(75% - 0.32rem);"><div class="body-copy" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 1.03125em; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.636364; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="wp-remixd-voice-wrapper" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Don’t think <a href="https://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Bills/billsdetail.aspx?BillId=80107&SessionId=103" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted var(--primary); border-image: none; border-left-color: currentcolor; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: currentcolor; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: currentcolor; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">House Bill 1365</a> was contrived to fix homelessness. This is about ousting the homeless.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The bill awaiting the governor’s signature targets urban homelessness without bothering with the tangle of social, economic, legal and mental health pathologies that have left 31,000 Floridians adrift on city streets.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Rather, HB 1365 provides Gov. Ron DeSantis and his allies another vulnerable subset of humanity to malign and mock for fun and political profit.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">After savaging LGBT Floridians, immigrants, ex-cons, dreamers and drag queens, they need fresh meat. The Unauthorized Public Camping and Public Sleeping Act adds Florida’s most pitiable demographic to the menu.</p><figure class="wp-caption alignleft size-article_inline" id="attachment_12894399" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 1.25em 1em calc(-12.5% - 0.25rem); max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="South Florida Sun Sentinel columnist Fred Grimm. 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(Rolando Otero, South Florida Sun Sentinel)</figcaption></figure><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">DeSantis got to what really matters when he bragged on Fox News that “the far left is really upset” about the notion of corralling the homeless.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; 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Nearly all said they had heard that rough treatment was coming their way.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Indeed, HB 1365 would roust them from their urban haunts and require city and county governments to do the rousting.</p><div class="dfp-ad dfp-cube_article" id="div-gpt-ad-cube_article" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; 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font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; height: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: auto; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: 300px;"></div></div></div></div></div><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Local governments would be prohibited from “authorizing or otherwise allowing” anyone to “camp or sleep” in parks or sidewalks or other public property.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The word “allowing” must be galling to city and county commissioners who’ve been struggling with the problem for decades. As if without HB 1365, big city liberals would grant transients squatter rights to kiddie playgrounds.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The bill forces local jurisdictions to choose between tossing people in jail or stashing them in tent encampments away from urban centers. With several expensive caveats.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Florida’s new Hoovervilles can’t be located in a residential area. A city or county government must outfit homeless camps with security, water, toilets and access to addiction and mental health services. After a year, the bill requires the local jurisdictions to relocate their homeless camps and repeat the process.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Under HB 1365, the Legislature provides the (unfunded) mandate while local governments are stuck with the bills. They call that cosmic balance in Tallahassee.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Fort Lauderdale tried a sad variation of this 31 years ago, when 200 homeless men and women were jammed into a blue-and-white banquet tent at the western edge of Holiday Park. It became a festering mess of drugs, violence, prostitution and crime. Neighbors and patrons of Parker Playhouse and parents of kids on nearby ballfields complained, convincingly, that the park had become populated with tottering, urinating, defecating drunks.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The city relocated the tent, but conditions hardly improved. “I spent a few nights there and it was hell,” a drifter named Tom Hughes told me in 1993. “It was drugs, drunks, fights and stealing.”</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The scenario was awful enough to convince civic leaders to build a $10 million homeless shelter on Northwest Seventh Avenue (which opened in 1999).</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Of course, the homeless haven’t disappeared from Fort Lauderdale. Many of them prefer the streets to the county shelter. “People in there are scary,” said Ledbetter. The threat of a $500 fine and 60 days in jail for illicit camping hasn’t chased them away.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In 2014, the city tried buying the homeless one-way bus tickets to elsewhere. Three years later, 10 homeless men whose belongings were destroyed when the city cleared out a rat-infested camp in a downtown park, won a $40,120 civil judgment. Turns out, even tattered transients have constitutional rights.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Fort Lauderdale’s dismal experience ought to have been a warning: Simple-minded, corral ’em-in-a-tent solutions won’t fix homelessness.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Affordable housing would help. “I can’t pay rent in this town and have enough to eat. I can’t eat and have enough to pay rent,” Robert Gibson told me Wednesday. After three years of homelessness, the sum of his belongings can be stashed in two Hefty garbage bags.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Pew Charitable Trust <a href="https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/articles/2023/08/22/how-housing-costs-drive-levels-of-homelessness" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted var(--primary); border-image: none; border-left-color: currentcolor; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: currentcolor; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: currentcolor; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">reported</a> last August, “A new analysis of rent prices and homelessness in American cities demonstrates the strong connection between the two: homelessness is high in urban areas where rents are high and homelessness rises when rents rise.”</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Zillow <a href="https://www.zillow.com/rental-manager/market-trends/fort-lauderdale-fl/" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted var(--primary); border-image: none; border-left-color: currentcolor; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: currentcolor; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: currentcolor; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">reported</a> this week that the medium monthly rent in Fort Lauderdale is $2,950 — $900 above the national medium. The medium in Miami is $3,250. Renters in Key West contend with a medium of $5,200.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But instead of building affordable housing, Florida cities and counties have been told there’s another way to deal with the homeless: Round ’em up and house them in repurposed circus tents.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Fred Grimm, a longtime resident of Fort Lauderdale, has worked as a journalist in South Florida since 1976. </em></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; 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(The New York Times)<p>Settlement reflects a correct application of our American antitrust laws to pernicious price-fixing by real estate professionals. The American Bar Association and lawyers throughout America long fixed prices, only to be corrected by the United States Supreme Court. </p><p>Three cheers for judicial independence and our independent judiciary. Footnote: at age ten, I remember questioning my father about the Board of Relators' illegal 6% commission agreements, and sometimes teasing him about it whenever my parents and I drove by their building in Gloucester County Jersey. Later, as <i>Appalachian Observer</i> Editor, I exposed the local Anderson County, Tenn. Bar Assn. maintaining a minimum fee schedule in 1981 after Supreme Court ruled antitrust laws were violated by such price-fixing arrangements. We obtained a copy of the minimum fee schedule, printed in a small brochure printed by the <i>Clinton Courier-News,</i> which never reported the story.</p><p>From <i>The New York Times: </i></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><header class="css-1gkjb1c euiyums1" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 3.75rem 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="css-1vkm6nb ehdk2mb0" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; 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position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;">Five Ways Buying and Selling a House Could Change</h1></div><p class="css-1n0orw4 e1wiw3jv0" id="article-summary" style="border: 0px; color: #363636; font-family: nyt-cheltenham, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: 1.4375rem; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px auto 1.875rem; max-width: 600px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;">The National Association of Realtors has agreed to change its policies to settle several lawsuits brought by home sellers — a move that could reduce commissions.</p><div class="css-10cldcv" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; 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color: #363636; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;">A <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/15/realestate/national-association-realtors-commission-settlement.html" style="border: 0px; color: #326891; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: var(--color-signal-editorial,#326891); text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="">settlement</a> reached this week threatens to strike a blow to an established standard of residential real estate: the 6 percent sales commission. It also will change who pays it. The deal, reached after a yearslong court battle initially brought by a group of home sellers in Missouri, calls for the powerful National Association of Realtors, which has long regulated the way U.S. homes are sold, to amend its rules on how Realtors for sellers and buyers are compensated.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="border: 0px; color: #363636; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;">In most real estate transactions in the United States, both the seller and buyer have an agent representing them. For decades, there’s been a standard for paying these agents: a commission of between 5 and 6 percent of the home’s sale price, covered by the seller and split between the two agents.</p></div><aside aria-label="companion column" class="css-ew4tgv" style="-webkit-box-align: center; align-items: center; border: 0px; display: flex; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px auto; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 210px;"></aside></div><div style="border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-feature-settings: inherit; 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padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="css-gz0gie e16ij5yr3" style="border: 0px; color: #121212; display: inline; font-family: nyt-cheltenham, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: 1.1875rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Powerful Realtor Group Agrees to Slash Commissions to Settle Lawsuits</div><div class="css-1g7pp1u e16638kd1" style="border: 0px; color: #727272; font-family: nyt-franklin, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: 0.8125rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">March 15, 2024</div></div></a></div></div></div></div><div class="css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn" style="border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; display: flex; flex-direction: row; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; height: 236.521744px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto 1rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1110px;"><div class="css-53u6y8" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px calc(50% - 300px); padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;"><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="border: 0px; color: #363636; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;">Commission rates are significantly lower in many other countries. In Britain, they are just above 1 percent, while in Singapore, the Netherlands and Denmark, they hover between 2 and 3 percent, according to a study by the investment firm Keefe, Bruyette & Woods. The homeowners who sued in federal court in Missouri said that N.A.R., through its rules on agent compensation, conspired to artificially inflate the commissions paid to real estate agents.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="border: 0px; color: #363636; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;"><br /></p><div class="css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn" style="border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; display: flex; 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font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px calc(50% - 300px); padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;"><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="border: 0px; color: #363636; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;">Now those rules are set to change as early as July, pending court approval of the settlement that includes N.A.R.’s agreement to pay <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/15/realestate/national-association-realtors-commission-settlement.html" style="border: 0px; color: #326891; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: var(--color-signal-editorial,#326891); text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="">$418 million in damages</a>.</p><h2 class="css-9ycfei eoo0vm40" id="link-5d5898fc" style="border: 0px; color: #121212; font-family: nyt-cheltenham, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: 1.75rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 2.125rem; margin: 35px auto 1.25rem; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;">There could be more room for negotiation.</h2><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="border: 0px; color: #363636; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;">Real estate agents argue that commissions have long been negotiable, and the standard 5 to 6 percent is practice rather than precept.</p><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><section aria-labelledby="styln-toplinks-title" class="css-1at4x3t" role="complementary" style="background-color: white; border: 1px solid var(--color-stroke-quaternary,#DFDFDF); box-sizing: border-box; color: #363636; font-family: nyt-franklin, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 1.5rem auto 1.75rem; max-width: 600px; padding: 25px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;"><header class="css-c7qqm7" style="border-bottom: 1px solid var(--color-stroke-quaternary,#DFDFDF); border-image: none; border-left-color: currentcolor; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: currentcolor; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: currentcolor; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 12px; vertical-align: baseline;"><h2 class="css-1hvg15v" id="styln-toplinks-title" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Turmoil at the National Association of Realtors</h2><h3 class="css-11i4diq" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The powerful real estate group, which is the largest professional organization in the United States, has come under increasing scrutiny.</h3></header><ul class="css-15azm6g" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: outside; margin: 1rem 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0.875rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A Landmark Deal: </strong>American homeowners <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/15/realestate/nar-realtors-settlement-takeaways.html?action=click&pgtype=Article&state=default&module=styln-national-association-of-realtors&variant=show&region=MAIN_CONTENT_1&block=storyline_top_links_recirc" style="border: 0px; color: #326891; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-underline-offset: 1px; vertical-align: baseline;">could see a significant drop</a> in the cost of <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/16/realestate/buy-sell-house.html?action=click&pgtype=Article&state=default&module=styln-national-association-of-realtors&variant=show&region=MAIN_CONTENT_1&block=storyline_top_links_recirc" style="border: 0px; color: #326891; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-underline-offset: 1px; vertical-align: baseline;">selling their homes</a> after National Association of Realtors agreed to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/15/realestate/national-association-realtors-commission-settlement.html?action=click&pgtype=Article&state=default&module=styln-national-association-of-realtors&variant=show&region=MAIN_CONTENT_1&block=storyline_top_links_recirc" style="border: 0px; color: #326891; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-underline-offset: 1px; vertical-align: baseline;">eliminate the standard 6% sales commission</a>.<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </strong></span></li><li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0.875rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Losing Its Grip</strong><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">: </strong>The group, which was <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/27/realestate/national-association-realtors-real-estate.html?action=click&pgtype=Article&state=default&module=styln-national-association-of-realtors&variant=show&region=MAIN_CONTENT_1&block=storyline_top_links_recirc" style="border: 0px; color: #326891; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-underline-offset: 1px; vertical-align: baseline;">delivered a one-two punch of scandals in 2023</a><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/27/realestate/national-association-realtors-real-estate.html?action=click&pgtype=Article&state=default&module=styln-national-association-of-realtors&variant=show&region=MAIN_CONTENT_1&block=storyline_top_links_recirc" style="border: 0px; color: #326891; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-underline-offset: 1px; vertical-align: baseline;">,</a> is facing competition from <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/23/realestate/american-real-estate-association-nar.html?action=click&pgtype=Article&state=default&module=styln-national-association-of-realtors&variant=show&region=MAIN_CONTENT_1&block=storyline_top_links_recirc" style="border: 0px; color: #326891; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-underline-offset: 1px; vertical-align: baseline;">a new trade group</a> that was started by two prominent real estate agents.</span></li><li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0.875rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sudden Exits</strong><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">: </strong>The president of the N.A.R. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/08/realestate/realtors-association-blackmail-resignation.html?action=click&pgtype=Article&state=default&module=styln-national-association-of-realtors&variant=show&region=MAIN_CONTENT_1&block=storyline_top_links_recirc" style="border: 0px; color: #326891; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-underline-offset: 1px; vertical-align: baseline;">resigned after just four months into her tenure</a>, becoming the group’s second president to abruptly step down. The N.A.R.’s chief executive also <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/28/realestate/kenny-parcell-resigns-national-association-realtors.html?action=click&pgtype=Article&state=default&module=styln-national-association-of-realtors&variant=show&region=MAIN_CONTENT_1&block=storyline_top_links_recirc" style="border: 0px; color: #326891; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-underline-offset: 1px; vertical-align: baseline;">recently resigned</a>.</span></li><li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.875rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Harassment Allegations: </strong>The leadership exits come after The New York Times exposed <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/26/realestate/national-association-of-realtors-sexual-harassment.html?action=click&pgtype=Article&state=default&module=styln-national-association-of-realtors&variant=show&region=MAIN_CONTENT_1&block=storyline_top_links_recirc" style="border: 0px; color: #326891; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-underline-offset: 1px; vertical-align: baseline;">complaints of sexual harassment in the N.A.R.</a>, including allegations against the group’s <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/28/realestate/kenny-parcell-resigns-national-association-realtors.html?action=click&pgtype=Article&state=default&module=styln-national-association-of-realtors&variant=show&region=MAIN_CONTENT_1&block=storyline_top_links_recirc" style="border: 0px; color: #326891; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-underline-offset: 1px; vertical-align: baseline;">former president</a>.</span></li></ul></section></div></div></div><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="border: 0px; color: #363636; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;">But an N.A.R. rule that required seller agents to clearly advertise compensation to buyers’ agents — effectively setting compensation for the buyer’s agent — stifled competition, the lawsuits argued. It also led to a practice called “steering,” in which buyer agents direct their clients to more expensive homes where the agents stand to earn a larger commission.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="border: 0px; color: #363636; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;">Under the terms of the settlement, listing agents will no longer be able to advertise commission rates to buyers’ agents on most of the databases where homes are listed for sale.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="border: 0px; color: #363636; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;">That will allow for more negotiation.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="border: 0px; color: #363636; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;">When Joanne Y. Cleaver decided to sell her five-bedroom home in Mint Hill, N.C., a suburb of Charlotte, in December, she knew a settlement was probably in the pipeline. Ms. Cleaver, a former real estate editor of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, interviewed several agents to see if she could get them to reduce their fee, and succeeded in getting her own agent to drop the fee from 2.5 to 1.5 percent. But the process ground to a halt when she tried to get the commission paid to the buyer’s agent reduced from 2.5 to 2 percent.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="border: 0px; color: #363636; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;"><br /></p><div class="css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn" style="border: 0px; display: flex; flex-direction: row; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; height: 177.391312px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto 1rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1110px;"><div class="css-53u6y8" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px calc(50% - 300px); padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;"><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="border: 0px; color: #363636; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;">Agent after agent told her that if the percentage were reduced, buyers’ agents would steer their clients away from her home. “They laughed at me,” said Ms. Cleaver, who published the <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.amazon.com/Negotiate-Real-Estate-Commissions-Money-ebook/dp/B0CRK8LV36/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3V2CAEJSNQRID&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.MD6AUT799FrGFR5Gx0-BSg.Q3Jd5SvQqurHo8myLw8aNbX2qpY7a9w9J6qMxxh0bjk&dib_tag=se&keywords=how+to+negotiate+a+real+estate+by+joanne+cleaver&qid=1710531847&sprefix=joanne+cleaver+%2Caps%2C96&sr=8-1" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px; color: #326891; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: var(--color-signal-editorial,#326891); text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="">Kindle book</a> “Negotiate Real Estate Commissions and Keep More Money!” and began a Facebook <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063899746543" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px; color: #326891; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: var(--color-signal-editorial,#326891); text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="">group</a> where buyers and sellers can swap negotiation tactics.</p></div><aside aria-label="companion column" class="css-ew4tgv" style="-webkit-box-align: center; align-items: center; border: 0px; display: flex; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; 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font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="css-gz0gie e16ij5yr3" style="border: 0px; color: #121212; display: inline; font-family: nyt-cheltenham, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: 1.1875rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">4 Ways a Settlement Could Change the Housing Industry</div><div class="css-1g7pp1u e16638kd1" style="border: 0px; color: #727272; font-family: nyt-franklin, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: 0.8125rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">March 15, 2024</div></div></a></div></div></div></div><div class="css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn" style="border: 0px; display: flex; flex-direction: row; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; height: 428.125px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto 1rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1110px;"><div class="css-53u6y8" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px calc(50% - 300px); padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;"><h2 class="css-9ycfei eoo0vm40" id="link-4ff3cfb9" style="border: 0px; color: #121212; font-family: nyt-cheltenham, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: 1.75rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 2.125rem; margin: 1.1875rem auto 1.25rem; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;">Buyers would be expected to pay their own agents.</h2><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="border: 0px; color: #363636; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;">At the heart of the proposed rule changes is commission “decoupling” — buyers and sellers would now each be responsible for paying their own agents rather than making sellers cover fees for both.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="border: 0px; color: #363636; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;">For buyers, especially those already struggling to amass a down payment for a home, this could sting.</p><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="border: 0px; color: #363636; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;">“Most entry and lower end buyers BARELY can come up with 3 percent down,” one broker, Stephen O’Hara, chief executive of Common Ground Properties in Rancho Santa Margarita, California, wrote on a Facebook discussion thread. “They don’t have enough money for a can of paint, much less a $20k Commission.”</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="border: 0px; color: #363636; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;"><br /></p><div class="css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn" style="border: 0px; display: flex; flex-direction: row; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; height: 843.478271px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto 1rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1110px;"><div class="css-53u6y8" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px calc(50% - 300px); padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;"><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="border: 0px; color: #363636; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;">The good news is that those commissions may go down. Most buyer agents currently earn 2.5 to 3 percent on a home sale (half of the standard 6 percent commission). An overhaul of the system could spark more competition, with agents offering lower rates, said Ryan Tomasello, the managing director of Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, an investment banking firm and the author of a 77-page study of the impact of the changes on commissions.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="border: 0px; color: #363636; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;">Mr. Tomasello’s research predicts that commissions may fall by as much as 2 percent — mostly from the buyer’s side, he said. At the same time, he doesn’t believe that home prices will be affected. “We think ultimately that this will reduce commissions in aggregate and therefore the friction costs of one of life’s biggest transactions,” he said.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="border: 0px; color: #363636; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;">Buyers also are now more likely to be offered a written agreement with their agent, just like sellers.</p><h2 class="css-9ycfei eoo0vm40" id="link-3a11881a" style="border: 0px; color: #121212; font-family: nyt-cheltenham, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: 1.75rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 2.125rem; margin: 35px auto 1.25rem; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;">Commissions could become more transparent.</h2><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="border: 0px; color: #363636; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;">Despite N.A.R. guidance against the practice, many buyer agents advertise their services as free. But in real estate and in life, nothing comes free — many home buyers simply weren’t aware that the fee for their agents was covered by the seller.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="border: 0px; color: #363636; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;">Sellers were often unaware, too. A recent survey of 1,000 Americans found that 42 percent of home sellers didn’t know that they were expected to pay the commission for the buyer’s agent. The five home sellers in Missouri who brought the lawsuit against N.A.R. had the same grievance.</p><div class="css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn" style="border: 0px; display: flex; flex-direction: row; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; height: 921.739136px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto 1rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1110px;"><div class="css-53u6y8" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; 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vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;">“Today’s consumers view the present commission system as confusing and unfair, which has made it difficult for many to trust their real estate agent,” Luke Babich, the co-founder of the real estate education platform Clever Real Estate, which conducted the poll, <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://listwithclever.com/news/realtor-commission-stats-2023/?utm_source=press+release&utm_medium=pr&utm_campaign=commission_2023" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px; color: #326891; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: var(--color-signal-editorial,#326891); text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="">wrote</a> in a blog post.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="border: 0px; color: #363636; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;">One potential upshot of the deal is that home buyers will become more aware of the process, and of the mechanism through which the agent representing them is paid.</p><h2 class="css-9ycfei eoo0vm40" id="link-5fad82f4" style="border: 0px; color: #121212; font-family: nyt-cheltenham, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: 1.75rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 2.125rem; margin: 35px auto 1.25rem; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;">Some buyers could opt to go it alone.</h2><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="border: 0px; color: #363636; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;">Today, 85 to 90 percent of home buyers use an agent who exclusively represents them while shopping for a home, according to Keefe, Bruyette & Woods. Faced with the prospect of footing the bill for their own agents, some buyers — already relying on sites like Zillow and Redfin to search for listings on their own — may now opt to eschew a buyer’s agent entirely.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="border: 0px; color: #363636; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;">But buyer beware: Agents caution that those who go it alone are more likely to fall victim to fraud or misunderstand the process.</p><h2 class="css-9ycfei eoo0vm40" id="link-5a1c0a9c" style="border: 0px; color: #121212; font-family: nyt-cheltenham, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: 1.75rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 2.125rem; margin: 35px auto 1.25rem; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;">Even agents who aren’t members of N.A.R. may be affected.</h2><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="border: 0px; color: #363636; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;">In most cities, access to the databases where homes are listed for sale, called multiple listing services, is restricted to dues-paying N.A.R. members, which has helped cement the organization’s influence. But this is not the case in every city, including New York, where many agents carry membership only with the Real Estate Board of New York, known as REBNY, the local real estate trade association.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="border: 0px; color: #363636; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;"><br /></p><section class="meteredContent css-1r7ky0e" name="articleBody" style="border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn" style="border: 0px; display: flex; flex-direction: row; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; height: 340.217407px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto 1rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1110px;"><div class="css-53u6y8" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px calc(50% - 300px); padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;"><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="border: 0px; color: #363636; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;">Some major brokerages have already offered their agents an exit ramp from N.A.R. As lawsuits against the organization piled up last year, several real estate companies, including <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/06/realestate/national-association-realtors-brokerages.html" style="border: 0px; color: #326891; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: var(--color-signal-editorial,#326891); text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="">Re/Max</a> and <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/02/realestate/redfin-national-association-of-realtors.html" style="border: 0px; color: #326891; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: var(--color-signal-editorial,#326891); text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="">Redfin</a>, did away with a requirement that their agents hold N.A.R. membership.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="border: 0px; color: #363636; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;">In New York City, where most agents aren’t members of N.A.R., the settlement won’t directly affect most buyers and sellers. Not yet anyway: The changes are expected to ripple through the entire industry. In January, REBNY <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.rebny.com/articles/decoupling-commissions-faq/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px; color: #326891; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: var(--color-signal-editorial,#326891); text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="">outlined new rules</a> allowing buyers’ brokers to reject a seller’s offer of commission and negotiate the fee directly from the buyer.</p></div><aside aria-label="companion column" class="css-ew4tgv" style="-webkit-box-align: center; 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font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; height: 1px; line-height: inherit; margin: -1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;">SKIP ADVERTISEMENT</a></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /></section>Ed Slavinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00298486886820876739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25979735.post-52160563840524990912024-03-18T09:38:00.001-07:002024-03-18T09:38:19.475-07:00Opinion Now, ‘qualified immunity’ fans justify jailing a forgetful grandmother. (George F. Will, WaPo)<p>I agree with the Institute for Justice, which George F. Will calls "indefatigable and infallible," a group that several of us consulted concerning the City of St. Augustine's abuses of power on artist, musician and tour guide regulations. From <i>The Washington Post:</i></p><p><br /></p><div class="grid-full-inner-standard" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 1;"><header class="wpds-c-fGHEql" data-qa="main-full" style="box-sizing: border-box; width: 1124.184814px;"><div class="PJLV PJLV-iklXUFA-css" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 1000px; width: 1000px;"><h1 class="PJLV PJLV-ihMAsLZ-css overrideStyles" data-qa="headline" data-testid="headline" id="main-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-headline); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-110); margin-bottom: var(--wpds-space-100); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 1000px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="PJLV PJLV-iPJLV-css gold" data-qa="headline-opinion-prefix" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Opinion<span aria-hidden="true" role="separator" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> <div class="wpds-c-gPMbbV" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: 2.8rem; margin: 0px 10px -5px; width: 1px;"></div></span> </span></span></h1><h1 class="PJLV PJLV-ihMAsLZ-css overrideStyles" data-qa="headline" data-testid="headline" id="main-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-headline); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-110); margin-bottom: var(--wpds-space-100); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 1000px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="PJLV" data-qa="headline-opinion-text" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Now, ‘qualified immunity’ fans justify jailing a forgetful grandmother</span></span></h1></div><div class="wpds-c-ffLlrl" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex;"><div class="wpds-c-hoWMuZ" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; max-width: 600px;"><div class="PJLV PJLV-ihSmMVC-css" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="PJLV PJLV-iPJLV-css mb-xxs overrideStyles" data-qa="author-byline" style="box-sizing: border-box; column-gap: 0.5rem; margin-bottom: 4px; row-gap: 0.5rem;"><span class="wpds-c-PJLV" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="mr-sm flex lh-0" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; line-height: 0; margin-right: 16px;"><div class="wpds-c-iTcer" style="box-sizing: border-box; height: 56px; position: relative; width: 56px;"><img alt="" class="wpds-c-dgBqAZ" src="https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://s3.amazonaws.com/arc-authors/washpost/6f7aec6f-b695-4795-90c0-65bc9b6bb001.jpg&w=196&h=196" style="border-radius: 50%; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" /></div></div><div class="flex" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex;"><div class="dib font-xxs" data-cy="name-with-optional-link" data-qa="name-with-optional-link" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-size: 1rem;"><span class="wpds-c-cNdzuP" data-qa="attribution-text" style="box-sizing: border-box;">By </span><a class="wpds-c-cNdzuP wpds-c-cNdzuP-jZcdxj-isLink-true" data-qa="author-name" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/george-f-will/?itid=ai_top_willg" rel="author" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-color: var(--wpds-colors-gold60) !important; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-underline-offset: 1px;">George F. 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To protect the safety of the small San Antonio suburb, they clapped the accused miscreant in jail and in irons: handcuffed to a metal bench, unable to stand up and stretch her 72-year-old legs.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">The grandmother in the orange jail shirt <a href="https://reason.com/2023/10/16/supreme-court-will-hear-this-texas-womans-challenge-to-a-politically-motivated-arrest/" style="border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">was accused of stealing</a> — months earlier, and for only a few minutes — a petition that she had helped to instigate, and that a signer had submitted to the city council moments before the grandmother supposedly stole it.</p></div></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">Next Wednesday, the <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Gonzalez_v._Trevino" style="border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">Supreme Court will hear</a> oral arguments as to whether Sylvia Gonzalez, represented by the indefatigable and infallible <a href="https://ij.org/about-us/" style="border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">Institute for Justice</a>, can sue the city officials who, she says, inflicted on her a retaliatory arrest as payback for her criticisms of the city government. A federal appellate court has said she cannot. The Supreme Court is considering Gonzalez’s encounter with nastiness because it implicates constitutional guarantees.</p><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">Gonzalez, a retiree, was elected to the city council in 2019, stressing opposition to the appointed city manager, whose incompetence was, she said, proven <a href="https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/us-5th-circuit/2189432.html" style="border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">by streets in disrepair</a>. In office, she helped to organize a nonbinding citizens’ petition calling for reinstatement of the previous city manager. This annoyed the mayor, and some of his allies who also supported the city manager.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="wpds-c-eyhHZm wpds-c-eyhHZm-igCbUYf-css" style="border-bottom: 1px solid var(--wpds-colors-gray400); border-top: 1px solid var(--wpds-colors-gray400); box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: var(--wpds-space-100);"><div data-state="closed" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><button aria-controls="radix-2" aria-expanded="false" class="wpds-c-kCVdRh" data-state="closed" style="align-items: center; appearance: button; border-color: inherit; border-style: inherit; display: flex; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; justify-content: space-between; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: var(--wpds-space-050) var(--wpds-space-150) var(--wpds-space-050) 0; text-transform: inherit; width: 640px;" type="button"><div class="wpds-c-qEzGg" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-shrink: 0;"><span class="wpds-c-diBAsU" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-right: var(--wpds-space-050);"><span class="wpds-c-qhccP wpds-c-qhccP-dBwtqg-size-200" data-testid="avatar" style="-webkit-user-select: none; align-items: center; border-radius: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-flex; height: 2rem; justify-content: center; overflow: hidden; vertical-align: middle; width: 2rem;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: initial; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; width: initial;"></span></span></span><span class="wpds-c-knzOLY" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span data-testid="follow-span" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Follow</span> <span class="PJLV PJLV-ikqOWxF-css" data-testid="author-span-non-mobile" style="box-sizing: border-box;">George F. Will</span>'s opinions</span></div><div class="wpds-c-gwAEdF" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex;"><span aria-hidden="true" class="wpds-c-cSlAcw wpds-c-cSlAcw-ieGvjgr-css" data-testid="hover-show-span" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-right: var(--wpds-space-050); opacity: 0; overflow: hidden; transition-duration: var(--motion-duration-200); transition-property: all;">Follow</span><span aria-hidden="false" aria-label="Expand" class="wpds-c-cptzaU" data-testid="plus-icon-span" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-flex; transition-duration: var(--motion-duration-200); transition-property: all;" title="Follow author"><svg aria-hidden="true" class="wpds-c-bBbqyI " fill="var(--wpds-colors-gold60)" focusable="false" role="img" viewbox="0 0 16 16" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><path d="M14 7.5H8.5V2h-1v5.5H2v1h5.5V14h1V8.5H14Z"></path></svg></span></div></button></div></div></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">As Gonzalez gathered her papers after a contentious council debate, the <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/22/22-1025/264005/20230420105239077_Petition%20for%20a%20Writ%20of%20Certiorari.pdf" style="border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">Institute for Justice’s filings recount</a>, the mayor, who sat next to her, asked where the petition was. Puzzled, she said it had been given to him the day before. He told her to look among her papers, <a href="https://case-law.vlex.com/vid/gonzalez-v-trevino-21-924578211" style="border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">where it was found</a>. He said, “You probably picked it up by mistake.”</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">End of story? No, the beginning of a petty, clumsy and obvious plot to charge her with a misdemeanor to force her from the council. After an “investigation” (by a friend <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/instituteforjustice/2023/05/04/qualified-immunity-blows-a-hole-in-the-first-amendment/?sh=3d9ac805181f" style="border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">of the police chief</a>), Gonzalez was arrested for violating a law making it an offense to “conceal” or “otherwise impair” the “availability of a government record.” The <a href="https://www.ksat.com/news/2019/08/24/tampering-charge-against-former-castle-hills-councilwoman-dismissed/" style="border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">charges were eventually dropped</a>, but after the trauma of the arrest and having her mug shot splashed across local media, Gonzalez decided <a href="https://ij.org/press-release/supreme-court-accepts-first-amendment-retaliation-case/" style="border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">to leave public life</a>.</p><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font--article-body font-copy gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md" data-el="text" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 24px;">But not to forgo suing the mayor, the police chief and the investigator, charging them with a retaliatory arrest intended to punish her for exercising her First Amendment rights of speaking and petitioning for redress of grievances. A panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit overturned a lower court’s ruling for Gonzalez, holding that “qualified immunity” protected the city officials from liability. That doctrine, which sensibly protects police making split-second decisions in dangerous situations, should not protect officials who coldly conspire to violate a citizen’s rights.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><a href="https://www.fjc.gov/history/judges/ho-james-c" style="border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-decoration: none; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">Judge James C. Ho</a>, in dissenting <a href="https://ij.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Petition-for-Rehearing-En-Banc-Opinion.pdf" style="border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">from the 5th Circuit’s refusal</a> to grant Gonzalez a rehearing, cited Supreme Court <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/17-1174#writing-17-1174_SYLLABUS" style="border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">Justice Neil M. Gorsuch’s observation</a> that “criminal laws have grown so exuberantly and come to cover so much previously innocent conduct that almost anyone can be arrested for something.” Ho said: “The opportunity for public officials to weaponize the criminal justice system against their political adversaries has never been greater.”</p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="caret-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The 5th Circuit mechanically, and disregarding a nuanced precedent, said the Castle Hills officials deserved qualified immunity because they had “probable cause” — really? a document misplaced for a few minutes? — for arresting Gonzalez. The Supreme Court has, however, held that a First Amendment retaliatory arrest claim can proceed if there is evidence that the plaintiff was arrested for actions that do not result in arrests when committed by people who have not engaged in controversial but protected speech.</span></p><div class="meteredContent grid-center" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2;"><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">Ho noted that <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/supreme-court-rules-against-alaska-man-who-argued-police-retaliated-against-him-for-exercising-free-speech/2019/05/28/9b2e8a0c-816a-11e9-95a9-e2c830afe24f_story.html?itid=lk_inline_manual_19" style="border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. has said</a>: When jaywalking is frequent but rarely results in arrests, if a vocal critic of police behavior is arrested for jaywalking, and files a retaliatory arrest claim, a court would not properly protect First Amendment rights if the claim were reflexively dismissed because the police technically had probable cause — jaywalking, for Pete’s sake — for the arrest.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">As another dissenting judge, <a href="https://www.fjc.gov/history/judges/oldham-andrew-stephen" style="border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">Andrew Oldham</a>, noted, evidence of the Castle Hills officials’ animus against Gonzalez as abundant: arresting her rather than merely issuing a summons; jailing her; the orange shirt; the handcuffs. Evidence of similar treatment of others for actions similar to hers is nonexistent.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">She is asserting a right the court should affirm: the right to sue officials who inflict retaliatory arrests. Affirmation would advance reconsideration of qualified immunity, the court-created doctrine that has evolved into a shield protecting disreputable officials who, carelessly or maliciously, violate individuals’ rights.</p></div></div><div class="wpds-c-jkoBlc wpds-c-jkoBlc-leHWbT-removeAllStyles-true" style="-apple-pay-button-style: unset; -apple-pay-button-type: unset; -webkit-backdrop-filter: unset; -webkit-background-clip: unset; -webkit-background-origin: unset; -webkit-box-align: unset; -webkit-box-decoration-break: unset; -webkit-box-direction: unset; -webkit-box-flex-group: unset; -webkit-box-flex: unset; -webkit-box-lines: unset; -webkit-box-ordinal-group: unset; -webkit-box-orient: unset; -webkit-box-pack: unset; -webkit-box-reflect: unset; -webkit-box-shadow: unset; -webkit-column-axis: unset; -webkit-column-progression: unset; -webkit-cursor-visibility: unset; -webkit-font-smoothing: unset; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: unset; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: unset; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-lines: unset; 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It Lasted a Few Days. (NY Times)<p>Blessed to have St. Johns County, Florida Department of Environmental Protection and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to work on beach protection here. Seems odd that Massachusetts would leave Salisbury Beach residents on their own. 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It Lasted a Few Days.</h1></div><p class="css-1n0orw4 e1wiw3jv0" id="article-summary" style="border: 0px; color: #363636; font-family: nyt-cheltenham, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: 1.4375rem; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px auto 1.875rem; max-width: 600px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;">Residents who live on Salisbury Beach, a seaside community in northern Massachusetts, paid for the sand dunes to protect their beachfront homes from storms. 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font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn" style="border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; display: flex; flex-direction: row; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; height: 458.913055px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto 1rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1110px;"><div class="css-53u6y8" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px calc(50% - 300px); padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;"><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="border: 0px; color: #363636; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;">The owners of beachfront homes in the seaside community of Salisbury Beach in northern Massachusetts spent nearly $600,000 to have around 15,000 tons of sand dropped near their properties to protect themselves from future storms.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="border: 0px; color: #363636; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;">But the Atlantic Ocean had something else coming. The high tide and winds that pounded the area on Sunday washed nearly half of the sand away, mere days after it was placed.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="border: 0px; color: #363636; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;">The storm left the beach area stripped and defenseless before the ocean waters that draw vacationers to that beach town every year.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="border: 0px; color: #363636; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;">“People are depressed, discouraged, angry,” said Tom Saab, the president of <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.facebook.com/p/Salisbury-Beach-Citizens-for-Change-100069973786556" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px; color: #326891; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: var(--color-signal-editorial,#326891); text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="">Salisbury Beach Citizens for Change</a>, a group <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.sbcfc.org/mission-statement" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px; color: #326891; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: var(--color-signal-editorial,#326891); text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="">representing property owners</a> that spearheaded the sand project. “The dunes did their job. They sacrificed themselves to protect the properties — no properties were really damaged.”</p><div class="css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn" style="border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; display: flex; flex-direction: row; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; height: 843.695679px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto 1rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1110px;"><div class="css-53u6y8" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px calc(50% - 300px); padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;"><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="border: 0px; color: #363636; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;">The citizens group decided in January to purchase the sand that was placed in mid-February along a 1.5 mile stretch of Salisbury Beach near the properties, Mr. Saab said. Around 150 buildings line the stretch of beach, including single houses and condos. The beach stretches for about four miles, and the adjoining properties are estimated to be collectively worth $2 billion, he said.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="border: 0px; color: #363636; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;">The sand dune project came to be after Salisbury Beach had been hit hard by storms over the past couple of months. It was inundated by a high tide and a nor’easter in December 2022, which “devastated” the beach, said Mr. Saab, who has lived on Salisbury Beach for decades.</p><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="border: 0px; color: #363636; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;">In January, two more nor’easters hit the area, he said.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="border: 0px; color: #363636; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;">“Those two storms basically wiped the whole beach out,” Mr. Saab said of the January storms. “Properties were damaged — decks were destroyed,” he said, adding that stairways and patios had been damaged too. “One home was condemned, not allowed to be lived in,” he said.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="border: 0px; color: #363636; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;">In an effort to take matters into their own hands, the citizens group initiated the sand project in mid-February, raising the required funds from property owners. It had wrapped up the project last week, on Wednesday, March 7. It was cause for celebration, just a few days before the next washout.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="border: 0px; color: #363636; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;">“Everybody had beautiful dunes, all paid for out of their own pockets — not a penny from the State of Massachusetts at all,” Mr. Saab said. “We built this one and a half miles of beach ready to protect us.”</p><div class="css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn" style="border: 0px; display: flex; flex-direction: row; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; height: 621.739136px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto 1rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1110px;"><div class="css-53u6y8" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px calc(50% - 300px); padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;"><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="border: 0px; color: #363636; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;">Then the nor’easter landed and took 50 percent of the sand and an estimated $300,000 worth of work, according to the group.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="border: 0px; color: #363636; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;">Two access points to the Salisbury Beach State Reservation <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://twitter.com/SenBruceTarr/status/1767256354475958513/photo/1" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px; color: #326891; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: var(--color-signal-editorial,#326891); text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="">were closed</a> on Sunday and remained closed on Thursday because of storm damage, according to the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="border: 0px; color: #363636; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;">Some area residents are calling for help from state leaders. They contend that state officials should chip in, partly because the protection afforded by the dunes extends beyond their properties to the infrastructure of the town and the state. The beach has received state and federal assistance before.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="border: 0px; color: #363636; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;">The state “remains in regular communication with representatives from the town, the legislative delegation and the community and will continue to work with them to address the impacts of erosion at the beach,” said a spokeswoman for the state’s Conservation and Recreation Department.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="border: 0px; color: #363636; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;">It is <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://news.ucar.edu/132649/major-northeastern-snowstorms-expected-continue-climate-change" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px; color: #326891; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: var(--color-signal-editorial,#326891); text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="">not uncommon for the East Coast</a> to be struck by nor’easters and other storms, according to the National Center for Atmospheric Research.</p><section class="meteredContent css-1r7ky0e" name="articleBody" style="border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; 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width: 600px;">About half of Salisbury Beach properties have been owned by the same families since the period from the 1950s to the 1970s, and those owners are loath to renounce their ocean views, Mr. Saab said.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="border: 0px; color: #363636; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;">“Nobody wants to give up,” he said. “I will never give up on protecting Salisbury Beach.”</p></div><aside aria-label="companion column" class="css-ew4tgv" style="-webkit-box-align: center; 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font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: 0.5625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.05rem; line-height: 0.5625rem; margin: 0px 0px 9px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline;"><p></p></div></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /></section>Ed Slavinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00298486886820876739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25979735.post-69457204983979429752024-03-18T09:16:00.000-07:002024-03-18T09:50:52.020-07:00Trump unable to finance an appeal bond for at least $450 million, lawyers say. (WaPo)<p>What <b>Ululating Unhinged Lawbreaking Impecunious Old Oaf Political Prostitute (UULIOOPP)</b> is unable to post an appeal bond? No surety wants to accept his property as collateral. Some 30 companies have turned him down. Wonder why? From <i>The Washington Post </i>and <i>The New York Times:</i></p><div class="grid-full-inner-standard" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 1;"><header class="wpds-c-fGHEql" data-qa="main-full" style="box-sizing: border-box; width: 1124.184814px;"><div class="PJLV PJLV-iklXUFA-css" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 1000px; width: 1000px;"><h1 class="PJLV PJLV-ihMAsLZ-css overrideStyles" data-qa="headline" data-testid="headline" id="main-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-headline); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-110); margin-bottom: var(--wpds-space-100); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 1000px;"><span class="PJLV" data-qa="headline-text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Trump unable to finance an appeal bond for at least $450 million, lawyers say</span></span></h1></div><div class="wpds-c-ffLlrl" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">Donald Trump</a> has been unable to finance an appeal bond for at least $450 million to cover a judgment in the New York attorney general’s business fraud case against him and is seeking a reprieve from an appellate court to keep the state from seizing assets, according to a court filing Monday.</p><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">The former president’s lawyers said in the filing that Trump and the Trump Organization, the real estate hospitality and golf resort company he solely owns, have been unable to get a surety company to accept property as collateral — stalling any efforts to obtain a bond that is due to be posted in a week.</p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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That judge also rejected an offer of a $100 million bond in lieu of the full amount. A full panel will soon examine the same issues.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">Trump, his company and several current and former executives were found civilly liable in Manhattan state court this year for engaging in illegal acts to defraud banks and insurance companies by lying about the true value of his assets to falsely obtain profits and savings in business over a decade.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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Trump’s filing one week before the bond is due raised the prospect that the former president might now face a financial crisis.</span><span class="css-1u46b97 e1z0qqy90" style="border: 0px; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: 0.8125rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.01em; line-height: 1.125rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0" style="border: 0px; clip: rect(0px, 0px, 0px, 0px); font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; 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Trump’s lawyers said in a court filing that he faces “insurmountable difficulties” as he tries to raise cash for the civil fraud penalty he faces in New York.</p><header class="css-1gkjb1c euiyums1" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 3.75rem 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div data-testid="imageblock-wrapper" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; 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width: 600px;">Donald J. Trump’s lawyers disclosed on Monday that he had failed to secure a roughly half-billion dollar bond in his civil fraud case in New York, arguing that doing so was “a practical impossibility.”</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="border: 0px; color: #363636; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;">The filing, coming one week before the bond is due, raised the prospect that the former president might <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/16/us/politics/trump-finances-money-fundraising.html" style="border: 0px; color: #326891; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: var(--color-signal-editorial,#326891); text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="">face a financial crisis</a>unless an appeals court comes to his rescue. Mr. Trump has asked the appeals court to pause the $454 million judgment that a New York judge imposed on Mr. Trump last month, or accept a bond of only $100 million.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="border: 0px; color: #363636; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;">The former president has been unable to secure the full bond, his lawyers said in the court filing on Monday, despite “diligent efforts.” Those efforts included approaching about 30 companies, and yet, they said, he has encountered “insurmountable difficulties.”</p><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="border: 0px; color: #363636; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;">The judge in the civil fraud case, Arthur F. Engoron, <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/24/nyregion/trump-fraud-trial-penalty.html" style="border: 0px; color: #326891; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: var(--color-signal-editorial,#326891); text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="">levied the penalty and other punishments</a> on Mr. Trump after concluding that he had fraudulently inflated his net worth to obtain favorable loans and other benefits. The case, brought by the New York attorney general, Letitia James, has posed a grave financial threat to Mr. Trump.</p><section class="meteredContent css-1r7ky0e" name="articleBody" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn" style="border: 0px; display: flex; flex-direction: row; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; 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(WaPo)<p>To people contemplating their 2024 Presidential Election vote: Character Counts!</p><p>From <i>The Washington Post: </i></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><div class="grid-full-inner-standard" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 1;"><header class="wpds-c-fGHEql" data-qa="main-full" style="box-sizing: border-box; width: 1124.184814px;"><div class="PJLV PJLV-iklXUFA-css" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 1000px; width: 1000px;"><h1 class="PJLV PJLV-ibtEjqu-css overrideStyles" data-qa="headline" data-testid="headline" id="main-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-headline); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-110); margin-bottom: var(--wpds-space-050); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 1000px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-025);"><span class="PJLV" data-qa="headline-text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Trump is eyeing Paul Manafort for 2024 campaign role </span></span></h1></div><h2 class="font--subhead font-light offblack mb-sm pb-xxs-ns subheadline" data-qa="subheadline" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.25rem; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.25; margin: 0px 0px 16px; max-width: 1000px; padding-bottom: 4px;">The former campaign manager was pardoned by Trump for bank and tax fraud convictions and accusations he hid millions he made consulting for pro-Russian Ukrainian politicians</h2><div class="wpds-c-ffLlrl" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex;"><div class="wpds-c-hoWMuZ" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; max-width: 600px;"><div class="PJLV PJLV-ihSmMVC-css" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="PJLV PJLV-iPJLV-css mb-xxs overrideStyles" data-qa="author-byline" style="box-sizing: border-box; column-gap: 0.5rem; margin-bottom: 4px; row-gap: 0.5rem;"><span class="wpds-c-PJLV" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="flex items-center" data-qa="author-byline" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex;"><div class="mr-sm flex lh-0" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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width: 768.192932px;" width="600"><img alt="" class="w-100 mw-100 h-auto" decoding="async" height="436" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 440px,(max-width: 600px) 691px,(max-width: 768px) 691px,(min-width: 769px) and (max-width: 1023px) 960px,(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1299px) 530px,(min-width: 1300px) and (max-width: 1439px) 691px,(min-width: 1440px) 916px,440px" srcset="https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/6BGHR3VYKQI6RFHLHPKS37URPM.jpg&w=440 400w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/6BGHR3VYKQI6RFHLHPKS37URPM.jpg&w=540 540w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/6BGHR3VYKQI6RFHLHPKS37URPM.jpg&w=691 691w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/6BGHR3VYKQI6RFHLHPKS37URPM.jpg&w=767 767w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/6BGHR3VYKQI6RFHLHPKS37URPM.jpg&w=916 916w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/6BGHR3VYKQI6RFHLHPKS37URPM.jpg&w=1200 1200w" style="background-size: cover; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 1200px; width: 768.192932px;" width="600" /></div></div><figcaption class="mr-auto-ns ml-auto-ns font--subhead font-xxxs mt-xs ml-gutter mr-gutter left gray-dark" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.25; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 8px; text-align: left;">President Donald Trump's former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, departs court in Washington on Oct. 30, 2017. (Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post)</figcaption></figure></div><div class="grid-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><div class="wpds-c-jUMcim wpds-c-jUMcim-iPJLV-css hide-for-print mb-sm" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: calc(var(--wpds-space-100)*-1); min-height: 40px; min-width: max-content;"><div class="PJLV PJLV-ieDMgMI-css flex items-center" config="[object Object]" data-qa="article-actions" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; gap: var(--wpds-space-100);"><div class="wpds-c-mfMEg" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br /></div><div class="wpds-c-mfMEg" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div></div></div><div class="meteredContent grid-center" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2;"><div class="teaser-content" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><br /></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">Former president Donald Trump is expected to enlist<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span>Paul Manafort, the former campaign manager<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/charles-kushner-paul-manafort-roger-stone-trump-pardons/2020/12/23/05cf013a-456d-11eb-975c-d17b8815a66d_story.html?itid=lk_inline_manual_2" style="border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank"> he pardoned</a>, as a campaign adviser later this year, according to four people familiar with the talks.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">The job discussions have largely centered around the 2024 Republican convention in Milwaukee in July and could include Manafort playing a role in fundraising for the presumptive GOP nominee’s campaign, according to these people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe private deliberations. While no formal decision has been made, the four people described the hiring as expected and said Trump was determined to bring Manafort back into the fold.</p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="caret-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Manafort worked for Trump in 2016 before being ousted and later </span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/manafort-jury-suggests-it-cannot-come-to-a-consensus-on-a-single-count/2018/08/21/a2478ac0-a559-11e8-a656-943eefab5daf_story.html?itid=lk_inline_manual_5" style="border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">convicted of tax and bank fraud felonies</a><span style="caret-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> as part of Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. He served time in prison before receiving a pardon in the final days of Trump’s time in office.</span></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="caret-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">A Trump campaign spokeswoman did not respond to a request for comment. Manafort also did not respond to a request for comment.</span></p><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">The hiring of Manafort would likely revive discussion of Russia’s involvement in the 2016 election, which Mueller concluded was “sweeping and systemic.” Mueller also found that Manafort shared internal Trump campaign polling data with a longtime associate who the FBI assessed had ties to Russian intelligence.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">A bipartisan Senate committee that investigated Russian interference in the 2016 election concluded that Manafort’s receptivity to Russian outreach <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/senate-intelligence-trump-russia-report/2020/08/18/62a7573e-e093-11ea-b69b-64f7b0477ed4_story.html?itid=lk_inline_manual_10" style="border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">was a “grave counterintelligence threat”</a> that had made the 2016 campaign susceptible to “malign Russian influence.”</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV wpds-c-PJLV-bHCGeL-isStandardLayoutAd-true article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">Trump has told advisers that he feels loyal to Manafort because he served prison time, and Manafort has continued to stay loyal and praise Trump in public and private appearances. The former president still often complains about the Mueller investigation, people close to Trump say, and contends the prosecution of Manafort was unfair.</p><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">Manafort was the Trump campaign chairman during the summer of 2016 before he was ousted in late August. He is a longtime Republican fixer, lawyer and lobbyist who has lobbied for foreign leaders and dictators.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">He was ousted from the campaign,<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/08/19/trump-campaign-chairman-paul-manafort-resigns/?itid=lk_inline_manual_15" style="border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank"> The Washington Post reported at the time</a>, after Trump “blew a gasket” when learning that Manafort’s firm had not properly disclosed its foreign lobbying.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">Manafort was found guilty of hiding millions he made lobbying on behalf of pro-Russian Ukrainian politicians in overseas bank accounts, then falsifying his finances to get loans when his patrons lost power. He was originally sentenced to about four years in prison but was released early to home confinement due to the coronavirus before he was pardoned by Trump.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="PJLV PJLV-iPJLV-css hide-for-print" data-qa="article-image" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><figure class="overflow-hidden relative hide-for-print center center mb-sm mb-md-ns ml-auto-ns mr-auto-ns grid-mobile-full-bleed" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin: 0px auto 24px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; text-align: center;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="w-100 mw-100 h-auto" height="399" style="box-sizing: border-box; filter: blur(10px); height: auto; line-height: 0; max-width: 100%; transition: filter 0.1s; width: 640px;" width="600"><img alt="" class="w-100 mw-100 h-auto" decoding="async" height="399" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 440px,(max-width: 600px) 691px,(max-width: 768px) 691px,(min-width: 769px) and (max-width: 1023px) 960px,(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1299px) 530px,(min-width: 1300px) and (max-width: 1439px) 691px,(min-width: 1440px) 916px,440px" srcset="https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/4AX7ACF3YQI63E2QPRP4ZVMYVU.jpg&w=440 400w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/4AX7ACF3YQI63E2QPRP4ZVMYVU.jpg&w=540 540w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/4AX7ACF3YQI63E2QPRP4ZVMYVU.jpg&w=691 691w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/4AX7ACF3YQI63E2QPRP4ZVMYVU.jpg&w=767 767w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/4AX7ACF3YQI63E2QPRP4ZVMYVU.jpg&w=916 916w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/4AX7ACF3YQI63E2QPRP4ZVMYVU.jpg&w=1200 1200w" style="background-size: cover; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 1200px; width: 0px;" width="600" /></div></div><figcaption class="mr-auto-ns ml-auto-ns font--subhead font-xxxs mt-xs ml-gutter mr-gutter left gray-dark" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.25; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 8px; text-align: left;">Paul Manafort, the former chairman of Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, arrives at court in New York on June 27, 2019. (Seth Wenig/AP)</figcaption></figure></div></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">During the 2016 campaign, Manafort also allegedly<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-manaforts-2016-meeting-with-a-russian-employee-at-new-york-cigar-club-goes-to-the-heart-of-muellers-probe/2019/02/12/655f84dc-2d67-11e9-8ad3-9a5b113ecd3c_story.html?itid=lk_inline_manual_18" style="border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank"> shared Trump campaign polling data </a>with Konstantin Kilimnik, a Russian who the U.S. government said had ties to Russian intelligence. The special counsel accused Manafort of lying to the FBI about his interactions with Kilimnik, even after Manafort had said he would cooperate and provide truthful information.</p><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">Manafort also allegedly worked with Kilimnik to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/manafort-ukraine-russia/2020/08/19/342b2b6c-e230-11ea-b69b-64f7b0477ed4_story.html?itid=lk_inline_manual_21" style="border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">spread Russian disinformation </a>that it was actually Ukraine who interfered in the 2016 U.S. election.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">In a <a href="https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/documents/report_volume5.pdf" style="border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">report issued in 2020</a>, the Senate bipartisan committee that investigated Russian interference found that “Manafort’s presence on the Campaign and proximity to Trump created opportunities for Russian intelligence services to exert influence over, and acquire confidential information on, the Trump Campaign.”</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">Before joining Trump’s orbit, he owned multiple properties in Manhattan and Palm Beach, drove luxurious cars and spent millions on fancy clothes and rugs. But Mueller found that he had “no meaningful income” when he agreed to work for Trump for no salary in 2016 and instead intended to find ways to monetize his newly prominent role in the presidential campaign, including with former clients in Ukraine.</p><div class="meteredContent grid-center" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2;"><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">Manafort’s national political career was launched in 1975, when he was named associate director for personnel for President Gerald Ford. He worked closely with Ford campaign chief James A. Baker, a man he considered an early mentor.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">His reputation rose in 1976, when he helped Ford win the Republican nomination during a contested convention. He worked later as a convention adviser to the presidential campaign of Ronald Reagan and led convention operations in 1996 for GOP presidential nominee Robert J. Dole.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">Trump has vacillated on his views of Manafort over the years. In 2018, he gave tepid remarks on behalf of his former campaign chairman.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">“You know, Paul Manafort worked for me for a very short period of time,” Trump said. “He worked for Ronald Reagan, he worked for Bob Dole, he worked for John McCain or his firm did. He worked for many other Republicans. He worked for me for what? For 49 days or something? A very short period of time.”</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">But when he pardoned Manafort, he attacked the Mueller investigation.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">Manafort has since written a book called “Political Prisoner” and defended Trump, attacking the Justice Department and other Trump critics.</p></div></div><div class="wpds-c-jkoBlc wpds-c-jkoBlc-leHWbT-removeAllStyles-true" style="-apple-pay-button-style: unset; 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(WaPo, Manuel Roig-Franzia, October 3, 2023)<p>xxxxx </p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><div class="grid-full-bleed" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; grid-column-end: 4; grid-column-start: 1;"><div class="PJLV PJLV-idOdJcG-css" data-testid="title_left-topper-container" id="title_left-topper-container" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="PJLV PJLV-ihdGfaH-css flex ma-auto" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: row-reverse; margin: auto;"><div class="PJLV PJLV-ieZZeKT-css flex flex-column mh-vh-100 pt-0-ns justify-center pt-lg" data-testid="text-elems-topper-container" id="text-elems-topper-container" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-basis: 50%; flex-direction: column; justify-content: center; max-height: 100vh; padding-left: var(--wpds-space-500); padding-right: var(--wpds-space-500); padding-top: 0px;"><div class="PJLV PJLV-iiJNsBB-css grid-center w-100" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; max-width: 700px; width: 466.086975px;"><h1 class="PJLV PJLV-ihJBLOw-css white" id="main-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-magazine); font-weight: var(--wpds-fontWeights-ultra); margin-bottom: var(--wpds-space-050); margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: auto; max-width: 1000px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-025);"><span style="font-size: x-large;">What’s it like to be prosecuted by Jack Smith?</span></h1></div><div class="PJLV PJLV-iiJNsBB-css grid-center w-100" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; max-width: 700px; width: 466.086975px;"><h2 class="PJLV PJLV-iihoyrT-css white" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-subhead); font-size: var(--wpds-fontSizes-125); font-weight: var(--wpds-fontWeights-light); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-125); margin-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 1000px;">In the federal cases against Donald Trump, all eyes are on the steely, enigmatic special prosecutor, who is known for psyching out adversaries. But he’s also lost some high-profile battles.</h2></div><div class="PJLV PJLV-iPJLV-css grid-center w-100" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; width: 466.086975px;"><div class="wpds-c-ffLlrl" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex;"><div class="wpds-c-hoWMuZ" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; max-width: 600px;"><div class="PJLV PJLV-ihSmMVC-css" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="PJLV PJLV-iPJLV-css mb-xxs overrideStyles" data-qa="author-byline" style="box-sizing: border-box; column-gap: 0.5rem; margin-bottom: 4px; row-gap: 0.5rem;"><span class="wpds-c-PJLV" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="flex items-center" data-qa="author-byline" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex;"><div class="mr-sm flex lh-0" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; line-height: 0; margin-right: 16px;"><div class="wpds-c-iTcer" style="box-sizing: border-box; height: 56px; position: relative; 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text-underline-offset: 1px;">Manuel Roig-Franzia</a></div></div></span></div></span></div></div><div class="wpds-c-elYpxo wpds-c-elYpxo-idBkJXN-css" data-testid="timestamp" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-subhead); font-size: var(--wpds-fontSizes-087); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-125); margin-bottom: var(--wpds-space-200); opacity: 0.9;"><span class="PJLV PJLV-ihqANPJ-css gray overrideStyles" data-testid="updated-and-published-span" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Updated <span class="wpds-c-cgxmX wpds-c-cgxmX-ihqANPJ-css gray overrideStyles" data-testid="updated-date" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: var(--wpds-fontSizes-087); margin-top: var(--wpds-space-025);">October 3, 2023 at 2:27 p.m. EDT</span><span class="wpds-c-hiSPfc" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: var(--wpds-space-050); margin-right: var(--wpds-space-050);">|</span>Published </span><span class="PJLV" style="box-sizing: border-box;">October 3, 2023 at 6:00 a.m. EDT</span></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="PJLV PJLV-ihvKBMl-css flex ma-auto" style="background-color: white; 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margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span class="style-dropcap" data-testid="style-dropcap" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: left; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-magazine); font-size: 6.25rem; line-height: 0.85; margin: 0.1em 0.1em 0px 0px; min-width: var(--wpds-sizes-400); padding: 0px 3px; text-align: center;">N</span>ot so long ago, Jack Smith was just another Jack Smith, before the nation became acquainted with the bushy beard and penetrating if unrevealing gaze. Before he was named special counsel in charge of prosecuting the nation’s cases against former president <a class="contextual_link" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/donald-trump/?itid=lk_inline_manual_1" style="border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">Donald Trump</a>.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">Before pictures of Jack Smith leaving a Washington sandwich shop could cause a stir in the news cycle. Before we heard about the steely resolve and triathlete’s discipline — and very little else about the man.</p></div></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">Jack Smith, circa the early 2010s,<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span>was entrusted by the Department of Justice with its pursuit of wayward public officials. He had a habit of visiting prosecutors at the scattered U.S. attorney’s offices around the country. Often, they would tell him the same thing: <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Aw,</i> they’d say, <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">we don’t have a corruption problem here, Jack.</i></p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">At a 2011 <a href="https://bit.ly/3reiGTc" style="border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">legal conference</a>, in a rare public instance when he revealed something about what goes on in his head, Smith suggested that he<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span>was sure they were wrong. He would tell them so: <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">You</i> <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">definitely have a corruption problem.</i></p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">He was there to nudge. To prod. To “drum up business,” said one former colleague, who, like many interviewed for this article, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal DOJ activities. He wanted those prosecutors out in the provinces — some of them creatures of the selfsame, favor-granting, sanctity-of-the-republic-abusing politics he disdains — to see what he saw from Washington.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">Here was a man whose eyes fixed upon bright lines, who idealizes order in a disorderly universe.</p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">The unrelenting aggressiveness that is his greatest strength is also Smith’s greatest weakness. Alongside his legal victories — and there have been many in three decades of prosecutorial activity large and small (he once nabbed a birthday party clown turned stickup artist dubbed the <a href="https://bit.ly/3PpJrwc" style="border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">Lotto Bandit</a>) — his willingness to push into areas that more risk-averse prosecutors would not have touched has undone him more than once.<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span>In some of his biggest cases — going after senators, a governor, a notorious cop killer — he reached for an outcome that he could not achieve.</p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">He’s saddled, fairly or unfairly, with the stigma of not being able to win the big ones. Yet there’s a feeling among his confidants, some of whom reflected on him as long as their names were kept out, that what matters to him isn’t just the final outcome but also the message it sends to would-be wrongdoers,<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span>that someone is watching.</p><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">“Anytime you’re willing to bring tough cases and what you might think are important cases, you’re not always going to succeed,” said <a href="https://bit.ly/45y5esh" style="border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">Lanny Breuer</a>, a prominent white-collar defense attorney who was Smith’s boss at the Justice Department.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">It is in a world of glaring clarity, self-assurance and high-wire prosecution work that Smith has positioned himself in his long career. A question that hovers over him<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span>is whether the moral clarity is always clear to everyone else. Does he sometimes see wrongdoing when it isn’t there? Or is it that the juries and judges who have disagreed with him simply failed to see what seemed so obvious to him?</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">What he sees in Trump is more than just a criminal who sought to <a href="https://wapo.st/3L4a5t6" style="border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">interfere</a> with the peaceful transfer of power by overturning the 2020 election results, and who endangered the nation by sloppily hoarding <a href="https://wapo.st/45GBJow" style="border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">secret papers</a> and other documents that belong in the National Archives or secure government facilities. He sees a man who knew full well that he was committing those crimes.</p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><br /></p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV wpds-c-PJLV-hQpAdy-isCenteredLayoutFullBleedImg-true article-body grid-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 4; grid-column-start: 1;"><div class="PJLV PJLV-iPJLV-css hide-for-print" data-qa="article-image" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><figure class="overflow-hidden relative hide-for-print center center mb-sm mb-md-ns ml-auto-ns mr-auto-ns" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin: 0px auto 24px; max-width: 1000px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; text-align: center; width: 1000px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="w-100 mw-100 h-auto" height="400" style="box-sizing: border-box; filter: blur(0px); height: auto; line-height: 0; max-width: 100%; transition: filter 0.1s; width: 1000px;" width="600"><img alt="" class="w-100 mw-100 h-auto" decoding="async" height="400" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 440px,(max-width: 768px) 691px,(max-width: 1023px) 916px,(max-width: 1199px) 1200px,(min-width: 1200px) 1440px,440px" srcset="https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/IKXR5NUPONJZTUK4VMJ7V4JPTE.jpg&w=440 400w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/IKXR5NUPONJZTUK4VMJ7V4JPTE.jpg&w=540 540w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/IKXR5NUPONJZTUK4VMJ7V4JPTE.jpg&w=691 691w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/IKXR5NUPONJZTUK4VMJ7V4JPTE.jpg&w=767 767w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/IKXR5NUPONJZTUK4VMJ7V4JPTE.jpg&w=916 916w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/IKXR5NUPONJZTUK4VMJ7V4JPTE.jpg&w=1200 1200w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/IKXR5NUPONJZTUK4VMJ7V4JPTE.jpg&w=1440&impolicy=high_res 1440w" style="background-size: cover; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 1200px; width: 1000px;" width="600" /></div></div><figcaption class="mr-auto-ns ml-auto-ns font--subhead font-xxxs mt-xs ml-gutter mr-gutter left gray-dark" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.25; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 8px; max-width: 640px; text-align: left;">Special counsel Jack Smith, center, in June after the unsealing of the indictment against former president Donald Trump. (Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images) </figcaption></figure></div></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">Though Smith isn’t saying and nothing is certain, it seems unlikely that he’ll be the one making those arguments directly to jurors. As he’s risen higher on the org charts, he’s tended to sit quietly and unobtrusively in courtrooms while prosecutors under his command did the talking — as he did when a scowling Trump <a href="https://wapo.st/44IrhLM" style="border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">was arraigned</a> in Miami federal court in June on <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/06/09/trump-indicted-charges-classified-documents/?itid=lk_inline_manual_15" style="border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">37 counts</a> of hiding secret documents at his Florida home. (Smith’s criminal prosecution of Trump, which could lead to prison time if he wins a conviction, is unrelated to the civil trial about the former president’s business practices that opened Monday in New York.)</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><span class="wpds-c-sFUaP wpds-c-sFUaP-jtHNGr-variant-interstitial wpds-c-sFUaP-iPJLV-css hide-for-print" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: var(--wpds-fontSizes-125); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><a data-qa="interstitial-link" data-testid="interstitial-link" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/09/10/jack-smith-special-counsel-trump-investigations/?itid=lk_interstitial_manual_16" style="border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-style: italic; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;">A look at the team Jack Smith built to try to convict Donald Trump</a></span></p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">Still, it was inevitable that the federal cases (both the Washington and Florida versions) would morph for the public into Smith v. Trump, one of the more consequential legal contests in the 247-year history of the American democratic experiment. At its core, it’s about one man’s interpretations of the other man’s intent. And intent is a concept Smith has internalized; he has called it his “battleground.” (Smith declined interview requests for this story.)</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">On that field of combat, Smith is faced with an adversary whose mastery of shaping public opinion and skewering opponents might be unrivaled. This caustic joker with <a href="https://bit.ly/3OWi64i" style="border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">messianic political appeal</a> has labeled Smith a “rabid wolf,” “deranged,” a “psycho.”</p></div><div class="article-body grid-body grid-center" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><blockquote class="wpds-c-BNTaj wpds-c-BNTaj-fDUVQq-showBorder-true wpds-c-BNTaj-jPbenR-cv wpds-c-BNTaj-igjBGUV-css article-quote relative border-box font-light black font--headline mr-lg-mod-ns" data-testid="quote" style="border-color: var(--wpds-colors-gray20); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 6px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; float: left; font-family: Postoni, garamond, serif; font-size: 1.75rem; line-height: 1.1; margin-block: 0px; margin-bottom: var(--wpds-space-250); margin-inline: 0px; margin-right: 40px; margin-top: var(--wpds-space-100); max-width: 300px; padding-left: var(--wpds-space-150); padding-right: var(--wpds-space-150); position: relative; width: 300px;"><div class="wpds-c-PJLV wpds-c-PJLV-fijXse-isStylePullQuote-true" data-qa="article-quote" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-magazine); font-size: var(--wpds-fontSizes-175);">At its core, it’s about one man’s interpretations of the other man’s intent. And intent is a concept Smith has internalized.</div></blockquote><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">What has been forgotten to time is that Smith once faced in court a real Joker, a real Messiah and a real Psycho. The records of that case, and how it played out, are all there in a riot of banker’s boxes at the federal court in Brooklyn that — irony alert — were borrowed by a federal official from the National Archives many years ago yet, as happens<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span>with some of the millions of federal documents, were still floating out there unreturned, where they were found by The Washington Post.</p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-kgELQW-hasStyleDropCap-true wpds-c-cYdRxM-ikxhdjE-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span class="style-dropcap" data-testid="style-dropcap" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: left; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-magazine); font-size: 6.25rem; line-height: 0.85; margin: 0.1em 0.1em 0px 0px; min-width: var(--wpds-sizes-400); padding: 0px 3px; text-align: center;">T</span>here are more than 250 attorneys in America named John or Jack Smith, according to the <a href="https://bit.ly/45JgtOH" style="border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">Martindale-Hubbell database</a>. Trump, the former president who loves to put his name on everything, has <a href="https://bit.ly/45foZEk" style="border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">tried to belittle</a> the special counsel’s name as so commonplace it sounds made up.</p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">Smith, who is 54, grew up in Clay, N.Y., a sturdy, middle-class community just north of Syracuse, where, even now, the average home costs about <a href="https://bit.ly/3ZdyemP" style="border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">$150,000</a>, according to the city’s website. His father worked as a commercial property air-conditioning systems draftsman, and his mother did not work outside the home for most of Jack’s early years, though she also has been employed sometimes at a data-processing center. The Smith family home sold for $58,000 less than a decade after Jack graduated from nearby Liverpool High School in 1987.</p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">Smith would tell an <a href="https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sdut-dojs-elite-public-integrity-unit-gets-new-leader-2010aug30-story.html" style="border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">Associated Press reporter</a> in a rare 2010<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span>interview that he considered being a<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span>prosecutor a way to serve people like his parents and uphold the values they instilled: “They pay their taxes, follow the rules and they expect their public officials to do the same.”</p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">This John Smith went by Jack from an early age. In<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span>a photo from the Hiawathan yearbook, he sports the modest, neatly pruned <a href="https://cdm16694.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/livpub01/id/16233/rec/1" style="border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">mullet</a> seen on just about any teenage boy in the 1980s — one of five Smiths in his graduating class, and apparently no standout.</p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">He made the varsity football and baseball teams but played little, said George Mangicaro, his football coach. The onetime benchwarmer, who friends say still isn’t a natural athlete, just tries harder. He has gone on to become famously obsessive about physical activity. Smith has said that he completed his 100th triathlon in 2017 and competed in 13 triathlons in a single year, winning his age group in six. He rises early, before his wife and daughter have stirred, to swim or go on<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span>exhaustive pre-workday bike rides.</p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">“It sets my head right for the day to come,” he said in a 2018 interview for a swim team blog.</p><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">Pain has been a frequent companion. In the 2000s, he competed in a triathlon 10 weeks after getting hit by a truck and fracturing his pelvis. The first time America was introduced to Jack Smith in a big way, when Attorney General Merrick Garland <a href="https://bit.ly/3kEst1d" style="border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">appointed him special counsel</a> for the Trump investigations last November, he was recovering from knee surgery following a cycling accident.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">The football coach remembers him being an average student in high school.<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span>Smith went on to the State University of New York at Oneonta, then to Harvard Law School, and Mangicaro wonders whether in some ways they failed him at Liverpool: “When I look at his academics, I think we didn’t challenge him enough.”</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-kgELQW-hasStyleDropCap-true wpds-c-cYdRxM-ikxhdjE-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span class="style-dropcap" data-testid="style-dropcap" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: left; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-magazine); font-size: 6.25rem; line-height: 0.85; margin: 0.1em 0.1em 0px 0px; min-width: var(--wpds-sizes-400); padding: 0px 3px; text-align: center;">S</span>mith might have followed the well-worn path from Harvard to a lucrative law-firm job, but he took the grittier route, signing on <a href="https://bit.ly/3qQWPRU" style="border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">in the mid-1990s</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span>with the Manhattan district attorney’s office under the legendary Robert Morgenthau, at a time when the city’s courts teemed<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span>with crack cocaine and murder cases.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">“He had a reputation as a fearless trial machine — a guy who tried case after case after case,” said Justin Shur, a former prosecutor in the same DA’s office who later worked as Smith’s deputy in DOJ’s public integrity section. Smith once insisted on picking jurors in one case he was handling while a jury in another case he’d prosecuted was still deliberating, Shur recalled.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">In court, Smith spoke plainly and sensibly, said Alan Vinegrad, the former U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of New York who was Smith’s boss after he left the Manhattan DA’s office to become a federal prosecutor in Brooklyn. “He really knows how to talk to jurors.”</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">Friends and rivals use similar terms to describe him: steady, hard-working. Tireless. Dogged. Intense. Smart, yes. Missing are two clichés of the Washington interview, <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">brilliant </i>and<i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> genius</i>,<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span>two things Smith has never claimed to be.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">“I don’t think I was very talented,” <a href="https://bit.ly/44E8dhP" style="border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">Smith once told an AP reporter</a>, describing his work as a prosecutor. “But [if] you field a lot of groundballs, you’re a good shortstop.”</p></div><div class="article-body grid-body grid-center" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><blockquote class="wpds-c-BNTaj wpds-c-BNTaj-fDUVQq-showBorder-true wpds-c-BNTaj-jPbenR-cv wpds-c-BNTaj-igjBGUV-css article-quote relative border-box font-light black font--headline mr-lg-mod-ns" data-testid="quote" style="border-color: var(--wpds-colors-gray20); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 6px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; float: left; font-family: Postoni, garamond, serif; font-size: 1.75rem; line-height: 1.1; margin-block: 0px; margin-bottom: var(--wpds-space-250); margin-inline: 0px; margin-right: 40px; margin-top: var(--wpds-space-100); max-width: 300px; padding-left: var(--wpds-space-150); padding-right: var(--wpds-space-150); position: relative; width: 300px;"><div class="wpds-c-PJLV wpds-c-PJLV-fijXse-isStylePullQuote-true" data-qa="article-quote" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-magazine); font-size: var(--wpds-fontSizes-175);">“He had a reputation as a fearless trial machine — a guy who tried case after case after case.”</div><cite class="wpds-c-cUiLBO" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-subhead); font-size: var(--wpds-fontSizes-100); font-style: normal; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-125); margin-top: var(--wpds-space-050);">— Justin Shur</cite></blockquote><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">Working in the pressure cooker of Morgenthau’s office taught Smith a lesson that has echoes in his efforts to convict Trump: He developed a skill for spotting the telling detail that would pop with regular folk — that one thing that makes you go: “Wow. That’s not normal.” That knack shows up in the indictment of Trump for allegedly hoarding classified documents at Mar-a-Lago, the Florida club he also uses as a residence.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><span class="wpds-c-sFUaP wpds-c-sFUaP-jtHNGr-variant-interstitial wpds-c-sFUaP-iPJLV-css hide-for-print" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: var(--wpds-fontSizes-125); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><a data-qa="interstitial-link" data-testid="interstitial-link" href="https://bit.ly/47JgGCW" style="border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-style: italic; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;">Trump made Florida his residence and created a legal mess</a></span></p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">The intricacies of our nation’s rules about classified documents central to that case might make a person’s head spin. But it’s impossible to unsee photos included in the indictment of boxes haphazardly stacked in a bathroom that features a <a href="https://bit.ly/3PocHVq" style="border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">chandelier</a> — not your typical American’s bathroom fixture. Then there’s the tableau in the indictment of a Trump associate <a href="https://bit.ly/3Pqtfw4" style="border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">tramping through bushes</a> at Mar-a-Lago to allegedly discuss with another associate Trump’s directive to hide evidence by erasing security tapes — straight out of some campy crime-procedural spoof.</p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><br /></p><div class="wpds-c-PJLV wpds-c-PJLV-hQpAdy-isCenteredLayoutFullBleedImg-true article-body grid-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 4; grid-column-start: 1;"><div class="PJLV PJLV-iPJLV-css hide-for-print" data-qa="article-image" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><figure class="overflow-hidden relative hide-for-print center center mb-sm mb-md-ns ml-auto-ns mr-auto-ns" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin: 0px auto 24px; max-width: 1000px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; text-align: center; width: 1000px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="w-100 mw-100 h-auto" height="530" style="box-sizing: border-box; filter: blur(10px); height: auto; line-height: 0; max-width: 100%; transition: filter 0.1s; width: 1000px;" width="600"><img alt="" class="w-100 mw-100 h-auto" decoding="async" height="530" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 440px,(max-width: 768px) 691px,(max-width: 1023px) 916px,(max-width: 1199px) 1200px,(min-width: 1200px) 1440px,440px" srcset="https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/K2CLCQCHJE2EQCNRCPJCKTULGI.jpg&w=440 400w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/K2CLCQCHJE2EQCNRCPJCKTULGI.jpg&w=540 540w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/K2CLCQCHJE2EQCNRCPJCKTULGI.jpg&w=691 691w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/K2CLCQCHJE2EQCNRCPJCKTULGI.jpg&w=767 767w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/K2CLCQCHJE2EQCNRCPJCKTULGI.jpg&w=916 916w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/K2CLCQCHJE2EQCNRCPJCKTULGI.jpg&w=1200 1200w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/K2CLCQCHJE2EQCNRCPJCKTULGI.jpg&w=1440&impolicy=high_res 1440w" style="background-size: cover; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 1200px; width: 0px;" width="600" /></div></div><figcaption class="mr-auto-ns ml-auto-ns font--subhead font-xxxs mt-xs ml-gutter mr-gutter left gray-dark" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.25; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 8px; max-width: 640px; text-align: left;">It’s impossible to unsee photos included in the indictment of boxes haphazardly stacked in a bathroom at Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla. (U.S. Department of Justice/Getty Images)</figcaption></figure></div></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">“That’s the DA’s office experience,” said Todd Harrison, who worked with Smith at the Manhattan DA’s office and later at the U.S. attorney’s office in Brooklyn. “You learn how to put a case together and to make it <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">interesting</i>.”</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-kgELQW-hasStyleDropCap-true wpds-c-cYdRxM-PeXBe-isStyleDropCapI-true wpds-c-cYdRxM-ikxhdjE-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span class="style-dropcap" data-testid="style-dropcap" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: left; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-magazine); font-size: 6.25rem; line-height: 0.85; margin: 0.1em 0.1em 0px 0px; min-width: var(--wpds-sizes-250); padding: 0px 3px; text-align: center;">I</span>n the late 1990s, a vicious gang rampaged through Long Island and the Bronx. They were charged with stealing $1 million from a jewelry store, ripping off drug dealers, kidnapping people, beating their enemies until they were nearly dead. They used code names to evade the authorities and, in some instances, to conceal their identities from one another.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">Three of them went by the names Messiah, Psycho and Joker. When Joker was on the run, he wore women’s clothing to throw off the police. They were clever about evading justice.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">Smith, who’d left the DA’s office for a post as a federal prosecutor in Brooklyn, needed someone to crack to make a case against them. And to do that, he needed to get into someone’s head — to figure out how to get that person to talk. That person was a dirty cop named Anthony Trotman,<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span>who’d joined the gang and was in a position to describe its inner workings.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">“Jack was very patient with Trotman,” said Harrison, who worked the case with Smith. “He just talked to him from the beginning about why Trotman had become a police officer originally.”</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">They talked about Trotman’s days at the police academy. About how he’d once set out to help people.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">“He convinced Trotman that that mind-set that he’d originally had was the correct one to have for your career and as an anchor for your whole life,” Harrison said. “He was able to appeal to Trotman’s remaining instincts to do the right thing.”</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">When the jewelry heist case went to trial, Trotman, who’d cut a deal in expectation<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span>of a lesser (but probably still lengthy) sentence, turned out to be a stellar witness, breaking down in tears while testifying. Smith was the one guiding him through the details for the jury.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">The public almost never hears Smith speak now. But in hundreds of pages of transcripts from the jewelry-heist trial and other cases, Smith’s sense of moral indignation is noticeable, a way of looking at the world that former colleagues say he has maintained to this day. To them, it seems obvious that this same indignation undergirds<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span>his pursuit of Trump.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body grid-tablet-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><div class="PJLV PJLV-iPJLV-css hide-for-print" data-qa="article-image" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><figure class="overflow-hidden relative hide-for-print center center mb-sm mb-md-ns ml-auto-ns mr-auto-ns" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin: 0px auto 24px; max-width: 700px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; text-align: center; width: 640px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="w-100 mw-100 h-auto" height="400" style="box-sizing: border-box; filter: blur(0px); height: auto; line-height: 0; max-width: 100%; transition: filter 0.1s; width: 640px;" width="600"><img alt="" class="w-100 mw-100 h-auto" decoding="async" height="400" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 440px,(max-width: 768px) 691px,(max-width: 1023px) 916px,(max-width: 1199px) 1200px,(min-width: 1200px) 1440px,440px" srcset="https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/3UGR2XEAILCIZNYPA4ALXUADSQ_size-normalized.jpg&w=440 400w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/3UGR2XEAILCIZNYPA4ALXUADSQ_size-normalized.jpg&w=540 540w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/3UGR2XEAILCIZNYPA4ALXUADSQ_size-normalized.jpg&w=691 691w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/3UGR2XEAILCIZNYPA4ALXUADSQ_size-normalized.jpg&w=767 767w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/3UGR2XEAILCIZNYPA4ALXUADSQ_size-normalized.jpg&w=916 916w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/3UGR2XEAILCIZNYPA4ALXUADSQ_size-normalized.jpg&w=1200 1200w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/3UGR2XEAILCIZNYPA4ALXUADSQ_size-normalized.jpg&w=1440&impolicy=high_res 1440w" style="background-size: cover; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-height: 975px; max-width: 1200px; width: 640px;" width="600" /></div></div><figcaption class="mr-auto-ns ml-auto-ns font--subhead font-xxxs mt-xs ml-gutter mr-gutter left gray-dark" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.25; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 8px; max-width: 640px; text-align: left;">Jack Smith has been described by friends and rivals as hard-working, tireless, dogged and intense. (Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images) </figcaption></figure></div></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">“Jack is a <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">very</i> moral guy,” Harrison said.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">Smith often told juries that defendants were not just criminals, but also “bad people.” They were “not nice.” One defendant, Smith told jurors, “had a choice to live in a good way or a bad way, and he chose bad.” He was appealing to jurors to not only look at the facts, but also to look at these men as he did and see terminally flawed human beings.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">Homespun expressions of disapproval for the men he prosecuted appear over and over<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span>in Smith’s casework. He’s irked not just that the jewelry-store robbers made off with $1 million but also that they robbed the same store twice, confident that they were “conviction proof.” Addressing jurors, he shared his distaste for what he imagined these thugs saying to themselves: “I’m a creator of unsolved crimes.”</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">Mitchell Golub, an attorney who represented one of the defendants, said in an interview that he tried to chart a path around Smith’s onslaught of accusation. Golub couldn’t find the way.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">“He anticipated everything,” said Golub, now retired. “He was in control of himself.”</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">And that made people crazy.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">Golub sees a similar technique at play now, as Trump endlessly and often contradictorily talks about Smith’s cases against him, describing them as a personal attack.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">In those formative years, the defendant Smith perhaps rattled most<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span>was named Rasene Myton, a gang member known as “Fox,” who, unlike Trotman, refused to break.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-body grid-center" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><blockquote class="wpds-c-BNTaj wpds-c-BNTaj-fDUVQq-showBorder-true wpds-c-BNTaj-jPbenR-cv wpds-c-BNTaj-igjBGUV-css article-quote relative border-box font-light black font--headline mr-lg-mod-ns" data-testid="quote" style="border-color: var(--wpds-colors-gray20); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 6px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; float: left; font-family: Postoni, garamond, serif; font-size: 1.75rem; line-height: 1.1; margin-block: 0px; margin-bottom: var(--wpds-space-250); margin-inline: 0px; margin-right: 40px; margin-top: var(--wpds-space-100); max-width: 300px; padding-left: var(--wpds-space-150); padding-right: var(--wpds-space-150); position: relative; width: 300px;"><div class="wpds-c-PJLV wpds-c-PJLV-fijXse-isStylePullQuote-true" data-qa="article-quote" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-magazine); font-size: var(--wpds-fontSizes-175);">He was appealing to jurors to not only look at the facts, but also to look at these men as he did and see terminally flawed human beings.</div></blockquote><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">Smith and his colleagues won a slew of convictions at trials over several years, benefiting enormously from several gang members who took plea bargains in return for their testimony.<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span>After Myton was convicted in 2001 on several counts related to the robberies, he sent a letter to his attorney complaining that Smith had a “personal vendetta” against him when prosecutors prepared to bring additional charges. Myton fulminated that Smith was engaged in a “form of vindictiveness.”</p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">“Sometimes, Jack, as a tactic, would purposely try to get under people’s skins to try and get them to make a mistake or to say something when you’re interrogating them or during the course of the case to see if you can throw them off their guard a little bit,” Harrison said. “Jack’s smart about psychological warfare.”</p><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">Other times, he’d intimidate potential cooperating witnesses. Shur, his colleague at DOJ, can remember a detective pulling him aside while Smith was leaning on a man to plead guilty and become a prosecution witness.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">“That guy’s <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">afraid</i> of Jack,” the agent told Shur.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><div class="PJLV PJLV-ilotWTr-css hide-for-print" data-testid="gift-share-inline" id="gift-share-inline" style="background-color: unset; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px;"><button aria-controls="radix-1" aria-expanded="false" aria-haspopup="dialog" aria-label="Gift or share this article" class="wpds-c-kSOqLF wpds-c-kSOqLF-cWZnsQ-variant-secondary wpds-c-kSOqLF-eHdizY-density-default wpds-c-kSOqLF-ejCoEP-icon-left wpds-c-PJLV wpds-c-PJLV-goNocI-placement-Inline focus-highlight" data-state="closed" data-testid="gift-share-popover-control-inline" id="gift-share-popover-control-inline" style="align-items: center; appearance: button; background: var(--wpds-colors-secondary); border-left-color: currentcolor; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-radius: 0px; border-right-color: currentcolor; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; color: black; cursor: pointer; display: flex; flex-direction: row; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-meta); font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: var(--wpds-fontSizes-100); font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: var(--wpds-fontWeights-regular); gap: var(--wpds-space-050); height: fit-content; justify-content: center; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-100); margin-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: inherit; transition: background var(--wpds-transitions-fast) var(--wpds-transitions-inOut); width: 640px;" type="button"><div class="wpds-c-kPqOkS wpds-c-kPqOkS-biynoz-hasSubsText-true" data-testid="gift-share-interstitial-trigger" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; font-size: var(--wpds-fontSizes-087); justify-content: space-between; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-125); padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-050); padding-left: 0px; padding-right: var(--wpds-space-125); padding-top: var(--wpds-space-050); width: 640px;"><span class="wpds-c-hBJqc" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: grid; flex-shrink: 0; text-align: left;"><span class="wpds-c-dzSncg" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Share this article</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">No subscription required to read</span></span><span class="wpds-c-eCvjpK" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex;"><span class="wpds-c-enedHQ wpds-c-enedHQ-cCitdK-isShown-false" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-right: var(--wpds-space-075); opacity: 0; overflow: hidden; transition-duration: var(--motion-duration-200); transition-property: all;">Share</span><svg aria-hidden="true" class="wpds-c-fBqPWp wpds-c-fDHGth" fill="currentColor" focusable="false" role="img" viewbox="0 0 16 16" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><path d="M8 .6v3.8h.1c-4.4 0-7.3 4.5-6.9 8.8.1.8.2 1.2.2 1.2l.2 1 .4-1.3c.8-2 2-4 6.2-3.9H8v4l7-6.9L8 .6Zm1 11.3V9.3h-.9c-3 0-4.8.5-6.2 2.9.5-3.3 2.7-6.8 6.2-6.8H9V3l4.5 4.4L9 11.9Z" fill="currentColor"></path></svg></span></div></button></div></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">Smith displayed a kind of energy and confidence that could be infectious but was occasionally unrealistic. Moe Fodeman, who prosecuted cases with Smith in Brooklyn, remembers walking with Smith to meet with a possible witness. Smith kept telling him the man would flip within three minutes. They opened the door to find a man who’d had the phrase “All rats must die” tattooed on his face.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">Smith quickly left the room.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">“This is going to be harder than I thought,” he told Fodeman.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">The tattooed man held firm and refused to testify.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">“It doesn’t always work out,” Fodeman said in an interview. “But Jack thinks it will.”</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-kgELQW-hasStyleDropCap-true wpds-c-cYdRxM-ikxhdjE-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span class="style-dropcap" data-testid="style-dropcap" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: left; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-magazine); font-size: 6.25rem; line-height: 0.85; margin: 0.1em 0.1em 0px 0px; min-width: var(--wpds-sizes-400); padding: 0px 3px; text-align: center;">S</span>mith was gaining a reputation as a young man on the rise in the Brooklyn office. Vinegrad tapped him while assembling a team for a case that was making national headlines: the prosecution of Charles Schwarz, a White police officer accused of holding down a Black immigrant named Abner Louima in 1997 while another officer sodomized him with a broken broomstick.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">“I could have chosen anyone,” said Vinegrad, who was the lead prosecutor on the case. He asked Smith to deliver closing arguments. The jury convicted Schwarz of perjury in 2002 but was deadlocked on civil rights charges and a separate perjury count. It wasn’t all they’d hoped for, but the prosecutors considered it a win. Schwarz was going to prison.</p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><br /></p><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body grid-tablet-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><div class="PJLV PJLV-iPJLV-css hide-for-print" data-qa="article-image" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><figure class="overflow-hidden relative hide-for-print center center mb-sm mb-md-ns ml-auto-ns mr-auto-ns" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin: 0px auto 24px; max-width: 700px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; text-align: center; width: 640px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="w-100 mw-100 h-auto" height="405" style="box-sizing: border-box; filter: blur(0px); height: auto; line-height: 0; max-width: 100%; transition: filter 0.1s; width: 640px;" width="600"><img alt="" class="w-100 mw-100 h-auto" decoding="async" height="405" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 440px,(max-width: 768px) 691px,(max-width: 1023px) 916px,(max-width: 1199px) 1200px,(min-width: 1200px) 1440px,440px" srcset="https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/6SKRPU3FMUEA2UPG277BTWQ5P4.jpg&w=440 400w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/6SKRPU3FMUEA2UPG277BTWQ5P4.jpg&w=540 540w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/6SKRPU3FMUEA2UPG277BTWQ5P4.jpg&w=691 691w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/6SKRPU3FMUEA2UPG277BTWQ5P4.jpg&w=767 767w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/6SKRPU3FMUEA2UPG277BTWQ5P4.jpg&w=916 916w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/6SKRPU3FMUEA2UPG277BTWQ5P4.jpg&w=1200 1200w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/6SKRPU3FMUEA2UPG277BTWQ5P4.jpg&w=1440&impolicy=high_res 1440w" style="background-size: cover; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-height: 975px; max-width: 1200px; width: 640px;" width="600" /></div></div><figcaption class="mr-auto-ns ml-auto-ns font--subhead font-xxxs mt-xs ml-gutter mr-gutter left gray-dark" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.25; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 8px; max-width: 640px; text-align: left;">Jack Smith delivered closing arguments in the case against Charles Schwarz, center, who was convicted of perjury in 2002. (David Handschuh/N.Y. Daily News Archive/Getty Images) (David Handschuh/NY Daily News Archive/NY Daily News via Getty Images)</figcaption></figure></div></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">Smith’s aggressiveness sometimes cost him. In 2007, he botched the sentencing of Ronell Wilson, a Staten Island man who’d executed two undercover police detectives. Wilson didn’t testify but read a brief statement expressing remorse after his conviction in hopes of getting some sympathy when he was sentenced.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">This time it was Smith who got rattled. He went too far while he was trying to persuade the jury to sentence Wilson to die by lethal injection. He told jurors that Wilson was trying to have it both ways: refusing to testify at trial about the facts of the case, then playing to the jury’s sympathy by expressing remorse afterward.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">“That is a manipulative criminal saying what he has to, saying what he knows you want to hear when it’s in his interest to say it,” Smith said.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">An appeals court overturned the death penalty, saying Smith had violated Wilson’s constitutional rights by planting the idea in jurors’ heads that there was something wrong about being remorseful after refusing to testify, a right granted to any defendant.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">“He was pushing the envelope a little on what the law allows you to say,” Harrison said. “And you could clearly argue he was a little overly aggressive in that sequence. He was disappointed and frustrated with the decision. But he’s pretty good at moving on.”</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV wpds-c-PJLV-hQpAdy-isCenteredLayoutFullBleedImg-true article-body grid-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 4; grid-column-start: 1;"><div class="PJLV PJLV-iPJLV-css hide-for-print" data-qa="article-image" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><figure class="overflow-hidden relative hide-for-print center center mb-sm mb-md-ns ml-auto-ns mr-auto-ns" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin: 0px auto 24px; max-width: 1000px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; text-align: center; width: 1000px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="w-100 mw-100 h-auto" height="400" style="box-sizing: border-box; filter: blur(0px); height: auto; line-height: 0; max-width: 100%; transition: filter 0.1s; width: 1000px;" width="600"><img alt="" class="w-100 mw-100 h-auto" decoding="async" height="400" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 440px,(max-width: 768px) 691px,(max-width: 1023px) 916px,(max-width: 1199px) 1200px,(min-width: 1200px) 1440px,440px" srcset="https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/RPPOYR2KPRPK4FDW7VHGF3EUAI_size-normalized.jpg&w=440 400w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/RPPOYR2KPRPK4FDW7VHGF3EUAI_size-normalized.jpg&w=540 540w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/RPPOYR2KPRPK4FDW7VHGF3EUAI_size-normalized.jpg&w=691 691w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/RPPOYR2KPRPK4FDW7VHGF3EUAI_size-normalized.jpg&w=767 767w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/RPPOYR2KPRPK4FDW7VHGF3EUAI_size-normalized.jpg&w=916 916w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/RPPOYR2KPRPK4FDW7VHGF3EUAI_size-normalized.jpg&w=1200 1200w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/RPPOYR2KPRPK4FDW7VHGF3EUAI_size-normalized.jpg&w=1440&impolicy=high_res 1440w" style="background-size: cover; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 1200px; width: 1000px;" width="600" /></div></div><figcaption class="mr-auto-ns ml-auto-ns font--subhead font-xxxs mt-xs ml-gutter mr-gutter left gray-dark" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.25; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 8px; max-width: 640px; text-align: left;">Jack Smith in 2010. (Charles Dharapak/AP)</figcaption></figure></div></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-kgELQW-hasStyleDropCap-true wpds-c-cYdRxM-ikxhdjE-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span class="style-dropcap" data-testid="style-dropcap" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: left; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-magazine); font-size: 6.25rem; line-height: 0.85; margin: 0.1em 0.1em 0px 0px; min-width: var(--wpds-sizes-400); padding: 0px 3px; text-align: center;">B</span>y 2010, the year Wilson’s death sentence was overturned, Smith had taken charge of a team at the Department of Justice, the public integrity section, that was struggling to overcome a tarnished reputation. The year before, it had bungled the prosecution of <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/investigators-unable-to-determine-cause-of-crash-that-killed-ted-stevens/2011/05/24/AFyQ6hAH_story.html?itid=lk_inline_manual_78" style="border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">Ted Stevens</a>, a long-serving Republican senator from Alaska who lost a reelection bid days after being convicted in a corruption case. Revelations of <a href="https://bit.ly/3RnsUf1" style="border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">prosecutorial misconduct</a> tainted the conviction so thoroughly that the Justice Department was forced to ask a judge to void the conviction.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">The public integrity section then came under criticism for <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">not</i> going after members of Congress. In rapid succession, Smith dropped separate investigations of a Republican U.S. senator from Nevada, Republican House members from California, Texas and Alaska, and a Democratic House member from West Virginia.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">Smith’s boss at the time, Lanny Breuer, who had supported the decisions to drop the investigations in hopes of freeing up resources for new inquiries, felt they needed to swing into damage-control mode.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">He asked Smith, who’d rejoined DOJ a few months earlier following a two-year stint as a war-crimes investigator at the International Criminal Court, to talk to the media. If the roles had been reversed — if Smith had been his boss — Breuer thinks Smith probably would have endured the public pressure in silence.</p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><br /></p><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body grid-tablet-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><div class="PJLV PJLV-iPJLV-css hide-for-print" data-qa="article-image" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><figure class="overflow-hidden relative hide-for-print center center mb-sm mb-md-ns ml-auto-ns mr-auto-ns" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin: 0px auto 24px; max-width: 700px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; text-align: center; width: 640px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="w-100 mw-100 h-auto" height="400" style="box-sizing: border-box; filter: blur(0px); height: auto; line-height: 0; max-width: 100%; transition: filter 0.1s; width: 640px;" width="600"><img alt="" class="w-100 mw-100 h-auto" decoding="async" height="400" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 440px,(max-width: 768px) 691px,(max-width: 1023px) 916px,(max-width: 1199px) 1200px,(min-width: 1200px) 1440px,440px" srcset="https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/PZVDUAYNEZWTPNFWMKM2KCDJWU_size-normalized.jpg&w=440 400w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/PZVDUAYNEZWTPNFWMKM2KCDJWU_size-normalized.jpg&w=540 540w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/PZVDUAYNEZWTPNFWMKM2KCDJWU_size-normalized.jpg&w=691 691w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/PZVDUAYNEZWTPNFWMKM2KCDJWU_size-normalized.jpg&w=767 767w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/PZVDUAYNEZWTPNFWMKM2KCDJWU_size-normalized.jpg&w=916 916w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/PZVDUAYNEZWTPNFWMKM2KCDJWU_size-normalized.jpg&w=1200 1200w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/PZVDUAYNEZWTPNFWMKM2KCDJWU_size-normalized.jpg&w=1440&impolicy=high_res 1440w" style="background-size: cover; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-height: 975px; max-width: 1200px; width: 640px;" width="600" /></div></div><figcaption class="mr-auto-ns ml-auto-ns font--subhead font-xxxs mt-xs ml-gutter mr-gutter left gray-dark" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.25; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 8px; max-width: 640px; text-align: left;">Smith in 2010. (Charles Dharapak/AP) </figcaption></figure></div></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">But Smith did what his boss asked, explaining publicly that they’d made the decisions after looking at evidence that hadn’t showed up in news accounts of the probes. “If I were the sort of person who could be cowed,”<a href="https://bit.ly/3PdhVC4" style="border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank"> he told the New York Times,</a> “I would find another line of work.”</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">In the years to come, two prevailing reads on Smith emerged: One, that he was “gun-shy” because he dropped potentially controversial investigations of well-known public officials,<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span>would yield to a polar-opposite narrative that he was overly aggressive, incompetent or both. The competing takes<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span>were exaggerations, but such narratives seldom lend themselves to nuance. Just as U.S. presidents get too much blame for bad economies and too much credit for good economies, the Justice Department’s public integrity chiefs tend to get too much credit for convictions and too much blame for courthouse setbacks.</p><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">But what’s certain is that Smith wanted to rev up the metabolism of both the DOJ section he headed and the federal investigators who built cases at ground level around the country. Shur and Smith went on a national “roadshow” to let FBI agents know they could pitch potential cases directly to DOJ’s integrity section, rather than filtering through local federal prosecutors.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">Three big cases involving politicians that flowed through Smith’s public integrity shop imploded. One centered on a widely panned decision to try out a moonshot legal theory that former U.S. senator John Edwards (D-N.C.) somehow violated campaign finance laws by <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/john-edwardss-potential-left-unfulfilled/2011/06/03/AGDIuyHH_story.html?itid=lk_inline_manual_87" style="border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">funneling roughly $1 million to his mistress</a> to hide their extramarital affair while he was <a class="contextual_link" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/presidential-candidates-2024/?itid=lk_inline_manual_87" style="border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">running for president</a> in 2008. It was the sort of case that many prosecutors would have passed on, reasoning there was little chance of a conviction. Not Smith. He went for it.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><span class="wpds-c-sFUaP wpds-c-sFUaP-jtHNGr-variant-interstitial wpds-c-sFUaP-iPJLV-css hide-for-print" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: var(--wpds-fontSizes-125); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><a data-qa="interstitial-link" data-testid="interstitial-link" href="https://bit.ly/44A9g2i" style="border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-style: italic; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;">None clear John Edwards's path now</a></span></p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">One of the prosecutors in the Edwards trial was <a href="https://bit.ly/44Rhxz3" style="border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">David Harbach</a>, a longtime close partner of Smith’s who <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/08/22/trump-documents-grand-jury-witnesses-lied/?itid=lk_inline_manual_89" style="border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">now works with him</a> in the special counsel’s office and who represented the government during Trump’s June arraignment in the classified documents case.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">The jury <a href="https://wapo.st/438DGsL" style="border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">acquitted Edwards</a> on one count and couldn’t reach a verdict on five. Breuer said he decided not to retry the case, and Smith didn’t fight him on the decision.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">“I didn’t know if he questioned that decision — to this day, I don’t know if he does,” Breuer said. “He took it as a professional without self-recrimination or any recriminations of his team.”</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">Smith’s tenure was further clouded<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span>by the collapse of the case against Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), who was investigated while Smith headed DOJ’s public integrity section but tried after he left the post. Prosecutors eventually had to <a href="https://bit.ly/47XJqb8" style="border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">drop charges</a> against Menendez in 2018 after a jury <a href="https://wapo.st/3EoRZOY" style="border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">couldn’t reach a verdict</a> on accusations that he’d used his power to do political favors for his pal and Caribbean getaway host, a wealthy South Florida eye doctor. (Menendez <a href="https://wapo.st/3PppmG8" style="border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">was indicted</a> last month by federal prosecutors in New York in a case unrelated to Smith’s investigations of Trump.)</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><span class="wpds-c-sFUaP wpds-c-sFUaP-jtHNGr-variant-interstitial wpds-c-sFUaP-iPJLV-css hide-for-print" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: var(--wpds-fontSizes-125); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><a data-qa="interstitial-link" data-testid="interstitial-link" href="https://bit.ly/480DsGq" style="border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-style: italic; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;">Bob Menendez tripped by Dominican getaways</a></span></p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">A third blow to Smith’s reputation came in 2016, when the <a href="https://bit.ly/45AWn9j" style="border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">U.S. Supreme Court overturned</a> the <a href="https://bit.ly/3Esq0xu" style="border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">2014 conviction</a> of Bob McDonnell, the Republican former governor of Virginia, for accepting expensive gifts from a businessman while in office. (Smith wasn’t intimately involved in developing the case but attended the trial and participated in strategy sessions.)</p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><br /></p><div class="wpds-c-PJLV wpds-c-PJLV-hQpAdy-isCenteredLayoutFullBleedImg-true article-body grid-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 4; grid-column-start: 1;"><div class="PJLV PJLV-iPJLV-css" data-qa="article-image-group" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="flex-ns cb overflow-hidden mt-sm-ns side-by-side" data-qa="side-by-side" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; display: flex; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-top: 16px; overflow: hidden;"><figure class="overflow-hidden relative hide-for-print center center mb-sm mb-md-ns w-50-ns w-50-ns w-100 w-33-ns mw-unset-ns fl-ns mr-md-ns ml-auto-ns" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: left; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin: 0px 24px 24px auto; max-width: unset; overflow: hidden; position: relative; text-align: center; width: 370.978271px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="w-100 mw-100 h-auto aspect-custom" height="" style="--aspect-height: 1962; --aspect-width: 3000; box-sizing: border-box; filter: blur(10px); height: auto; line-height: 0; max-width: 100%; padding-bottom: calc(var(--aspect-height)/var(--aspect-width)*100%); position: relative; transition: filter 0.1s; width: 370.978271px;" width=""><img alt="" class="w-100 mw-100 h-auto of-cover" decoding="async" height="" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 440px,(max-width: 768px) 691px,(max-width: 1023px) 916px,(max-width: 1199px) 1200px,(min-width: 1200px) 1440px,440px" srcset="https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/2SM7NTXLTCLD62TCY6OBBG6G2A_size-normalized.jpg&w=440 400w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/2SM7NTXLTCLD62TCY6OBBG6G2A_size-normalized.jpg&w=540 540w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/2SM7NTXLTCLD62TCY6OBBG6G2A_size-normalized.jpg&w=691 691w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/2SM7NTXLTCLD62TCY6OBBG6G2A_size-normalized.jpg&w=767 767w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/2SM7NTXLTCLD62TCY6OBBG6G2A_size-normalized.jpg&w=916 916w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/2SM7NTXLTCLD62TCY6OBBG6G2A_size-normalized.jpg&w=1200 1200w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/2SM7NTXLTCLD62TCY6OBBG6G2A_size-normalized.jpg&w=1440&impolicy=high_res 1440w" style="background-size: cover; box-sizing: border-box; height: 242.608704px; inset: 0px; max-width: 1200px; object-fit: cover; position: absolute; width: 370.978271px;" width="" /></div></div><figcaption class="mr-auto-ns ml-auto-ns font--subhead font-xxxs mt-xs ml-gutter mr-gutter left gray-dark" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.25; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 8px; max-width: 640px; text-align: left;">John Edwards exits the federal courthouse in Winston-Salem, N.C., with his daughter Cate Edwards in 2011 after his indictment. (Steve Exum/Getty Images)</figcaption></figure><figure class="overflow-hidden relative hide-for-print center center mb-sm mb-md-ns w-50-ns w-50-ns w-100 w-33-ns mw-unset-ns fr-ns ml-0-ns mr-auto-ns" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: right; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin: 0px auto 24px 0px; max-width: unset; overflow: hidden; position: relative; text-align: center; width: 370.978271px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="w-100 mw-100 h-auto aspect-custom" height="" style="--aspect-height: 1962; --aspect-width: 3000; box-sizing: border-box; filter: blur(10px); height: auto; line-height: 0; max-width: 100%; padding-bottom: calc(var(--aspect-height)/var(--aspect-width)*100%); position: relative; transition: filter 0.1s; width: 370.978271px;" width=""><img alt="" class="w-100 mw-100 h-auto of-cover" decoding="async" height="" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 440px,(max-width: 768px) 691px,(max-width: 1023px) 916px,(max-width: 1199px) 1200px,(min-width: 1200px) 1440px,440px" srcset="https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/I5EUX6GE2CNINI47GP6XQKKVD4.jpg&w=440 400w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/I5EUX6GE2CNINI47GP6XQKKVD4.jpg&w=540 540w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/I5EUX6GE2CNINI47GP6XQKKVD4.jpg&w=691 691w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/I5EUX6GE2CNINI47GP6XQKKVD4.jpg&w=767 767w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/I5EUX6GE2CNINI47GP6XQKKVD4.jpg&w=916 916w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/I5EUX6GE2CNINI47GP6XQKKVD4.jpg&w=1200 1200w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/I5EUX6GE2CNINI47GP6XQKKVD4.jpg&w=1440&impolicy=high_res 1440w" style="background-size: cover; box-sizing: border-box; height: 242.608704px; inset: 0px; max-width: 1200px; object-fit: cover; position: absolute; width: 370.978271px;" width="" /></div></div><figcaption class="mr-auto-ns ml-auto-ns font--subhead font-xxxs mt-xs ml-gutter mr-gutter left gray-dark" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.25; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 8px; max-width: 640px; text-align: left;">Former Virginia governor Bob McDonnell during his 2014 trial in Richmond. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)</figcaption></figure></div></div></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV wpds-c-PJLV-hQpAdy-isCenteredLayoutFullBleedImg-true article-body grid-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 4; grid-column-start: 1;"></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">Rival<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span>prosecutors aren’t inclined to be gentle when their office mates screw up. The trio of setbacks prompted one former colleague,<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span>who spoke on the condition of anonymity to snark freely, to dub Smith’s team, “The Boy Scout Troop That Couldn’t Shoot Straight.” At other times, the office vibe was more chummy. Among those who also held a high-ranking position in DOJ’s criminal division at the same time as Smith was James Trusty, who would later serve as Trump’s attorney during the special counsel’s classified documents <a href="https://bit.ly/45yhrgx" style="border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">investigation</a>. (Trusty <a href="https://bit.ly/47WqycF" style="border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">resigned</a> as Trump’s attorney after the former president was indicted in the documents case.)</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">Breuer can remember how<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span>Smith — who allegedly has a sense of humor, though there is little publicly available evidence of it — and Trusty would good-naturedly tease each other at meetings.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">What often gets lost when assessing Smith’s five-year stint running public integrity for DOJ is that those high-profile cases that went wrong make up only a small fraction of the cases that came through his office. Less attention was garnered by victories such as the 2011 bribery and extortion conviction of <a href="https://bit.ly/3raZhCZ" style="border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">Phil Hamilton</a>, a former member of the Virginia House of Delegates, and the corruption conviction that same year of <a href="https://bit.ly/3t8iN3e" style="border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">Kevin Ring</a>, who was a figure in the scandal involving disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">Annual reports to Congress show the workmanlike grind of convicting Border Patrol agents who illegally smuggled migrants into the United States, dirty cops in Puerto Rico, judges on the take, corrupt state legislators and larcenous lobbyists. Smith’s supporters will argue that those bread-and-butter cases have a real effect on deterring crime across the country, but most don’t generate headlines.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">Smith did get a congressman, though. Rick Renzi, a Republican from Arizona, was convicted under Smith’s watch of extortion, bribery, insurance fraud, money laundering and racketeering. Renzi was no John Edwards. But it was a win.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">Renzi served <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2013/10/28/ex-rep-rick-renzi-sentenced-to-three-years-in-prison/?itid=lk_inline_manual_102" style="border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">nearly two years in prison</a>, getting out in 2017. Four years later, on Jan. 20, 2021, Renzi was pardoned by Trump on his last day in office.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">The same day Trump was <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/01/20/trumps-swampiest-pardons-ranked/?itid=lk_inline_manual_103" style="border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">pardoning Renzi</a>, boxes of documents were being removed from the White House at the president’s behest to be sent to Mar-a-Lago.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">No one knew it at the time, but the stage had just been set for the showdown between Jack Smith and Donald Trump.</p></div><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><br /></p><div class="wpds-c-PJLV wpds-c-PJLV-hQpAdy-isCenteredLayoutFullBleedImg-true article-body grid-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 4; grid-column-start: 1;"><div class="PJLV PJLV-iPJLV-css" data-qa="article-image-group" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="flex-ns cb overflow-hidden mt-sm-ns side-by-side" data-qa="side-by-side" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; display: flex; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-top: 16px; overflow: hidden;"><figure class="overflow-hidden relative hide-for-print center center mb-sm mb-md-ns w-50-ns w-50-ns w-100 w-33-ns mw-unset-ns fl-ns mr-md-ns ml-auto-ns" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: left; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin: 0px 24px 24px auto; max-width: unset; overflow: hidden; position: relative; text-align: center; width: 370.978271px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="w-100 mw-100 h-auto aspect-custom" height="" style="--aspect-height: 1962; --aspect-width: 3000; box-sizing: border-box; filter: blur(10px); height: auto; line-height: 0; max-width: 100%; padding-bottom: calc(var(--aspect-height)/var(--aspect-width)*100%); position: relative; transition: filter 0.1s; width: 370.978271px;" width=""><img alt="" class="w-100 mw-100 h-auto of-cover" decoding="async" height="" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 440px,(max-width: 768px) 691px,(max-width: 1023px) 916px,(max-width: 1199px) 1200px,(min-width: 1200px) 1440px,440px" srcset="https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/2SM7NTXLTCLD62TCY6OBBG6G2A_size-normalized.jpg&w=440 400w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/2SM7NTXLTCLD62TCY6OBBG6G2A_size-normalized.jpg&w=540 540w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/2SM7NTXLTCLD62TCY6OBBG6G2A_size-normalized.jpg&w=691 691w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/2SM7NTXLTCLD62TCY6OBBG6G2A_size-normalized.jpg&w=767 767w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/2SM7NTXLTCLD62TCY6OBBG6G2A_size-normalized.jpg&w=916 916w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/2SM7NTXLTCLD62TCY6OBBG6G2A_size-normalized.jpg&w=1200 1200w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/2SM7NTXLTCLD62TCY6OBBG6G2A_size-normalized.jpg&w=1440&impolicy=high_res 1440w" style="background-size: cover; box-sizing: border-box; height: 242.608704px; inset: 0px; max-width: 1200px; object-fit: cover; position: absolute; width: 370.978271px;" width="" /></div></div><figcaption class="mr-auto-ns ml-auto-ns font--subhead font-xxxs mt-xs ml-gutter mr-gutter left gray-dark" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.25; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 8px; max-width: 640px; text-align: left;">John Edwards exits the federal courthouse in Winston-Salem, N.C., with his daughter Cate Edwards in 2011 after his indictment. (Steve Exum/Getty Images)</figcaption></figure><figure class="overflow-hidden relative hide-for-print center center mb-sm mb-md-ns w-50-ns w-50-ns w-100 w-33-ns mw-unset-ns fr-ns ml-0-ns mr-auto-ns" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: right; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin: 0px auto 24px 0px; max-width: unset; overflow: hidden; position: relative; text-align: center; width: 370.978271px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="w-100 mw-100 h-auto aspect-custom" height="" style="--aspect-height: 1962; --aspect-width: 3000; box-sizing: border-box; filter: blur(10px); height: auto; line-height: 0; max-width: 100%; padding-bottom: calc(var(--aspect-height)/var(--aspect-width)*100%); position: relative; transition: filter 0.1s; width: 370.978271px;" width=""><img alt="" class="w-100 mw-100 h-auto of-cover" decoding="async" height="" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 440px,(max-width: 768px) 691px,(max-width: 1023px) 916px,(max-width: 1199px) 1200px,(min-width: 1200px) 1440px,440px" srcset="https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/I5EUX6GE2CNINI47GP6XQKKVD4.jpg&w=440 400w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/I5EUX6GE2CNINI47GP6XQKKVD4.jpg&w=540 540w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/I5EUX6GE2CNINI47GP6XQKKVD4.jpg&w=691 691w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/I5EUX6GE2CNINI47GP6XQKKVD4.jpg&w=767 767w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/I5EUX6GE2CNINI47GP6XQKKVD4.jpg&w=916 916w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/I5EUX6GE2CNINI47GP6XQKKVD4.jpg&w=1200 1200w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/I5EUX6GE2CNINI47GP6XQKKVD4.jpg&w=1440&impolicy=high_res 1440w" style="background-size: cover; box-sizing: border-box; height: 242.608704px; inset: 0px; max-width: 1200px; object-fit: cover; position: absolute; width: 370.978271px;" width="" /></div></div><figcaption class="mr-auto-ns ml-auto-ns font--subhead font-xxxs mt-xs ml-gutter mr-gutter left gray-dark" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.25; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 8px; max-width: 640px; text-align: left;">Former Virginia governor Bob McDonnell during his 2014 trial in Richmond. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)</figcaption></figure></div></div></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV wpds-c-PJLV-hQpAdy-isCenteredLayoutFullBleedImg-true article-body grid-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 4; grid-column-start: 1;"></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">Rival<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span>prosecutors aren’t inclined to be gentle when their office mates screw up. The trio of setbacks prompted one former colleague,<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span>who spoke on the condition of anonymity to snark freely, to dub Smith’s team, “The Boy Scout Troop That Couldn’t Shoot Straight.” At other times, the office vibe was more chummy. Among those who also held a high-ranking position in DOJ’s criminal division at the same time as Smith was James Trusty, who would later serve as Trump’s attorney during the special counsel’s classified documents <a href="https://bit.ly/45yhrgx" style="border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">investigation</a>. (Trusty <a href="https://bit.ly/47WqycF" style="border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">resigned</a> as Trump’s attorney after the former president was indicted in the documents case.)</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">Breuer can remember how<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span>Smith — who allegedly has a sense of humor, though there is little publicly available evidence of it — and Trusty would good-naturedly tease each other at meetings.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">What often gets lost when assessing Smith’s five-year stint running public integrity for DOJ is that those high-profile cases that went wrong make up only a small fraction of the cases that came through his office. Less attention was garnered by victories such as the 2011 bribery and extortion conviction of <a href="https://bit.ly/3raZhCZ" style="border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">Phil Hamilton</a>, a former member of the Virginia House of Delegates, and the corruption conviction that same year of <a href="https://bit.ly/3t8iN3e" style="border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">Kevin Ring</a>, who was a figure in the scandal involving disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">Annual reports to Congress show the workmanlike grind of convicting Border Patrol agents who illegally smuggled migrants into the United States, dirty cops in Puerto Rico, judges on the take, corrupt state legislators and larcenous lobbyists. Smith’s supporters will argue that those bread-and-butter cases have a real effect on deterring crime across the country, but most don’t generate headlines.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">Smith did get a congressman, though. Rick Renzi, a Republican from Arizona, was convicted under Smith’s watch of extortion, bribery, insurance fraud, money laundering and racketeering. Renzi was no John Edwards. But it was a win.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">Renzi served <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2013/10/28/ex-rep-rick-renzi-sentenced-to-three-years-in-prison/?itid=lk_inline_manual_102" style="border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">nearly two years in prison</a>, getting out in 2017. Four years later, on Jan. 20, 2021, Renzi was pardoned by Trump on his last day in office.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">The same day Trump was <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/01/20/trumps-swampiest-pardons-ranked/?itid=lk_inline_manual_103" style="border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">pardoning Renzi</a>, boxes of documents were being removed from the White House at the president’s behest to be sent to Mar-a-Lago.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">No one knew it at the time, but the stage had just been set for the showdown between Jack Smith and Donald Trump.</p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><br /></p><div style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: center;"><div class="w-100 mw-100 h-auto" height="433" style="box-sizing: border-box; filter: blur(0px); height: auto; line-height: 0; max-width: 100%; transition: filter 0.1s; width: 1000px;" width="600"><img alt="" class="w-100 mw-100 h-auto" decoding="async" height="433" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 440px,(max-width: 768px) 691px,(max-width: 1023px) 916px,(max-width: 1199px) 1200px,(min-width: 1200px) 1440px,440px" srcset="https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/OBMA4SK53P356TRWRVHOVHZ6FM.jpg&w=440 400w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/OBMA4SK53P356TRWRVHOVHZ6FM.jpg&w=540 540w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/OBMA4SK53P356TRWRVHOVHZ6FM.jpg&w=691 691w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/OBMA4SK53P356TRWRVHOVHZ6FM.jpg&w=767 767w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/OBMA4SK53P356TRWRVHOVHZ6FM.jpg&w=916 916w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/OBMA4SK53P356TRWRVHOVHZ6FM.jpg&w=1200 1200w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/OBMA4SK53P356TRWRVHOVHZ6FM.jpg&w=1440&impolicy=high_res 1440w" style="background-size: cover; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 1200px; width: 1000px;" width="600" /></div></div><figcaption class="mr-auto-ns ml-auto-ns font--subhead font-xxxs mt-xs ml-gutter mr-gutter left gray-dark" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.25; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 8px; max-width: 640px;">Jack Smith in 2020. (Jerry Lampen/AP)</figcaption><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><br /></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><br /></p><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-kgELQW-hasStyleDropCap-true wpds-c-cYdRxM-PeXBe-isStyleDropCapI-true wpds-c-cYdRxM-ikxhdjE-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span class="style-dropcap" data-testid="style-dropcap" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: left; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-magazine); font-size: 6.25rem; line-height: 0.85; margin: 0.1em 0.1em 0px 0px; min-width: var(--wpds-sizes-250); padding: 0px 3px; text-align: center;">I</span>n the life and times of Jack Smith as a righter of wrongs, there is one detour, the briefness of which says much about Jack Smith.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">It happened after he’d left Washington in 2015<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span>for Nashville, where he worked lower to the ground, initially as the second-in-command, then as the acting head of the U.S. attorney’s office there. He’d put in five years running public integrity operations and now 2½ as a prosecutor in Tennessee.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">If he’d been anyone else, no one would have been surprised when he announced in 2017 that he was leaving government service after more than two decades for a corporate job as the Hospital Corporation of America’s head of litigation. Fodeman, his former colleague, heard the news and thought to himself: “He’s never going to last at this.” The Jack Smith he knew<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span>seemed like a prosecution<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span>lifer.</p><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">Smith decided to leave the corporate job just eight months later. “He wasn’t a huge fan of being in private practice,” Harrison said. “He missed being a prosecutor.”</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">Smith then became the specialist prosecutor investigating Kosovo war crimes at The Hague. “I know this is what I’m supposed to be doing,” Harrison recalls Smith telling him. The interminably long slog of prosecuting war crimes is markedly different from the pace Smith was used to. But he hadn’t forgotten how to move fast — an instinct that placed Smith on a collision course with Trump in the last summer of his presidency.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">Trump had been scheduled to host Kosovo’s president, Hashim Thaci, at a White House summit. While Thaci was on his way to Washington, Smith took the unusual step of publicly unveiling an indictment of Thaci on war crimes charges dating back to his time as a commander in the Kosovo Liberation Army.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">When news broke, Thaci halted his trip to Washington en route. At the time, Smith said the indictment — which normally would have been kept under seal for months — had to be released, because Thaci was trying to evade justice by secretly working to overturn the law that created the Kosovo war crimes prosecution office.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">Smith might have actually done Trump a favor — saving him from a photo op with an accused war criminal. But Trump has been trying to paint the episode as evidence that Smith has always been out to bedevil him, writing on Truth Social earlier this year that Smith sought to prosecute Thaci because he was a “Trump positive person.”</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><span class="wpds-c-sFUaP wpds-c-sFUaP-jtHNGr-variant-interstitial wpds-c-sFUaP-iPJLV-css hide-for-print" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: var(--wpds-fontSizes-125); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><a data-qa="interstitial-link" data-testid="interstitial-link" href="https://wapo.st/45N3lHR" style="border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-style: italic; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;">How Jack Smith ruined Trump's summit</a></span></p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">At The Hague, Smith wore the high-collared plum-and-black robe of the prosecutor. When he was appointed special counsel in November, <a href="https://bit.ly/3qQWPRU" style="border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">those images</a> of him in the robe were <a href="https://ktvz.com/politics/cnn-us-politics/2022/11/19/what-it-means-that-a-special-counsel-is-running-the-trump-investigations-4/" style="border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">everywhere</a>, beginning the construction of a Jack Smith mystique: stern, unsmiling, staring straight at the camera, an untamed cowlick and a scraggly beard gone salt-and-pepper. Bags under his eyes. Weary and world-weary. “I don’t know who told him to grow that beard,” said Breuer, his former boss. “He looks so severe.”</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">One TV reporter remarked that Smith looked like something out of Hogwarts, the school of witchcraft and wizardry in the Harry Potter series. She told her audience that she’d requested an official government photo from the special counsel’s office. The request was denied.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">“He’s like a Zen master,” Breuer said. “He works the media by not working the media.”</p><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">Being unknowable has only stoked the desire to know him. Fragments come to light, but with little context or explanation in the invasive nature of history-making fame. The public learns that his wife, <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0989043/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cr3" style="border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">Katy Chevigny</a>, co-produced the hagiographic, autobiographical Michelle Obama documentary “<a href="https://wapo.st/45I4gcS" style="border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">Becoming</a>.” Also that Chevigny — whose<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span><a href="https://bit.ly/3EGDJRI" style="border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">work as a producer</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span>includes 2020’s “Dick Johnson Is Dead” and the 2007 voting rights documentary “Election Day”<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span>— <a href="https://bit.ly/3PK1nTA" style="border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">donated $1,000</a> to President Biden’s campaign to unseat Trump in 2020. Chevigny also made a small contribution in 2008 to Rashida Tlaib, a Democrat from Michigan who made headlines in 2019 after being elected to Congress when she<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span><a href="https://bit.ly/3PMLDiU" style="border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">used a profanity</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span>to describe Trump and vowed to impeach him. The sale of a home the couple owned in Tennessee also became tabloid news. (Chevigny, who married Smith in 2011, did not respond to an interview request.) Trump has brought unwelcome attention to Smith’s family by mentioning them in a <a href="https://bit.ly/3sCuhfd" style="border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">social media post</a> that some commentators found obliquely — or not so obliquely — threatening.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">A Jack Smith sighting is now cause for a <a href="https://bit.ly/45GzbXu" style="border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">breaking news </a>banner on cable news. On that morning in July when Trump revealed he’d received a <a href="https://bit.ly/3Envmu1" style="border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">target letter</a> in Smith’s investigation into the <a class="contextual_link" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/january-6-capitol-riot/?itid=lk_inline_manual_121" style="border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">Jan. 6</a>, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, CNN touted “exclusive” footage of the special counsel leaving a Subway sandwich shop. John King, the veteran political reporter, speculated that Smith was sending Trump a message that: “I’m here. I’m not going anywhere.” <a href="https://bit.ly/44HImoV" style="border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">Mockery ensued.</a></p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">Let’s run <a href="https://cnn.it/3EoTwo3" style="border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">the footage</a> back one more time: There Smith emerges at the door. There he is walking unhurriedly, swinging a sandwich bag. There he is stepping through the foliage in the sidewalk planter box as security guards scan for danger.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">A door flings open to the back seat of one of those Important Men of Washington black SUVs. Jack Smith steps inside. He says absolutely nothing.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Alice Crites contributed to this report.</i></p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><div class="wpds-c-lgLEQx wpds-c-lgLEQx-iPJLV-css" data-qa="correction-disclaimer" style="border-radius: var(--wpds-radii-025); box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-subhead); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-125); margin-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150); padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150); padding-left: var(--wpds-space-150); padding-right: var(--wpds-space-200); padding-top: var(--wpds-space-150);"><div class="wpds-c-kAVFVG" data-testid="disclaimer-headline" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: var(--wpds-fontSizes-087); letter-spacing: 0.3px; margin-bottom: var(--wpds-space-100); text-transform: uppercase;">CORRECTION</div><p class="wpds-c-joLgjs" data-testid="disclaimer-description" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: var(--wpds-fontSizes-100); letter-spacing: 0.23px; margin: 0px;">A previous version of this article gave the incorrect nickname of Rasene Myton. The article has been corrected.</p></div></div><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><br /></p></div><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><br /></p></div><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><br /></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><img alt="" class="w-100 mw-100 h-auto" decoding="async" height="433" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 440px,(max-width: 768px) 691px,(max-width: 1023px) 916px,(max-width: 1199px) 1200px,(min-width: 1200px) 1440px,440px" srcset="https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/OBMA4SK53P356TRWRVHOVHZ6FM.jpg&w=440 400w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/OBMA4SK53P356TRWRVHOVHZ6FM.jpg&w=540 540w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/OBMA4SK53P356TRWRVHOVHZ6FM.jpg&w=691 691w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/OBMA4SK53P356TRWRVHOVHZ6FM.jpg&w=767 767w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/OBMA4SK53P356TRWRVHOVHZ6FM.jpg&w=916 916w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/OBMA4SK53P356TRWRVHOVHZ6FM.jpg&w=1200 1200w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/OBMA4SK53P356TRWRVHOVHZ6FM.jpg&w=1440&impolicy=high_res 1440w" style="background-size: cover; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 1200px; text-align: center; width: 1000px;" width="600" /></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><br /></p><div class="wpds-c-PJLV wpds-c-PJLV-hQpAdy-isCenteredLayoutFullBleedImg-true article-body grid-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 4; grid-column-start: 1;"><div class="PJLV PJLV-iPJLV-css hide-for-print" data-qa="article-image" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><figure class="overflow-hidden relative hide-for-print center center mb-sm mb-md-ns ml-auto-ns mr-auto-ns" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin: 0px auto 24px; max-width: 1000px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; text-align: center; width: 1000px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="w-100 mw-100 h-auto" height="433" style="box-sizing: border-box; filter: blur(0px); height: auto; line-height: 0; max-width: 100%; transition: filter 0.1s; width: 1000px;" width="600"><img alt="" class="w-100 mw-100 h-auto" decoding="async" height="433" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 440px,(max-width: 768px) 691px,(max-width: 1023px) 916px,(max-width: 1199px) 1200px,(min-width: 1200px) 1440px,440px" srcset="https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/OBMA4SK53P356TRWRVHOVHZ6FM.jpg&w=440 400w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/OBMA4SK53P356TRWRVHOVHZ6FM.jpg&w=540 540w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/OBMA4SK53P356TRWRVHOVHZ6FM.jpg&w=691 691w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/OBMA4SK53P356TRWRVHOVHZ6FM.jpg&w=767 767w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/OBMA4SK53P356TRWRVHOVHZ6FM.jpg&w=916 916w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/OBMA4SK53P356TRWRVHOVHZ6FM.jpg&w=1200 1200w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/OBMA4SK53P356TRWRVHOVHZ6FM.jpg&w=1440&impolicy=high_res 1440w" style="background-size: cover; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 1200px; width: 1000px;" width="600" /></div></div><figcaption class="mr-auto-ns ml-auto-ns font--subhead font-xxxs mt-xs ml-gutter mr-gutter left gray-dark" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.25; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 8px; max-width: 640px; text-align: left;">Jack Smith in 2020. (Jerry Lampen/AP)</figcaption></figure></div></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-kgELQW-hasStyleDropCap-true wpds-c-cYdRxM-PeXBe-isStyleDropCapI-true wpds-c-cYdRxM-ikxhdjE-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span class="style-dropcap" data-testid="style-dropcap" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: left; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-magazine); font-size: 6.25rem; line-height: 0.85; margin: 0.1em 0.1em 0px 0px; min-width: var(--wpds-sizes-250); padding: 0px 3px; text-align: center;">I</span>n the life and times of Jack Smith as a righter of wrongs, there is one detour, the briefness of which says much about Jack Smith.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">It happened after he’d left Washington in 2015<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span>for Nashville, where he worked lower to the ground, initially as the second-in-command, then as the acting head of the U.S. attorney’s office there. He’d put in five years running public integrity operations and now 2½ as a prosecutor in Tennessee.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">If he’d been anyone else, no one would have been surprised when he announced in 2017 that he was leaving government service after more than two decades for a corporate job as the Hospital Corporation of America’s head of litigation. Fodeman, his former colleague, heard the news and thought to himself: “He’s never going to last at this.” The Jack Smith he knew<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span>seemed like a prosecution<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span>lifer.</p></div><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><br /></p><div class="wpds-c-PJLV wpds-c-PJLV-hQpAdy-isCenteredLayoutFullBleedImg-true article-body grid-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 4; grid-column-start: 1;"><div class="PJLV PJLV-iPJLV-css hide-for-print" data-qa="article-image" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><figure class="overflow-hidden relative hide-for-print center center mb-sm mb-md-ns ml-auto-ns mr-auto-ns" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin: 0px auto 24px; max-width: 1000px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; text-align: center; width: 1000px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="w-100 mw-100 h-auto" height="433" style="box-sizing: border-box; filter: blur(0px); height: auto; line-height: 0; max-width: 100%; transition: filter 0.1s; width: 1000px;" width="600"><img alt="" class="w-100 mw-100 h-auto" decoding="async" height="433" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 440px,(max-width: 768px) 691px,(max-width: 1023px) 916px,(max-width: 1199px) 1200px,(min-width: 1200px) 1440px,440px" srcset="https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/OBMA4SK53P356TRWRVHOVHZ6FM.jpg&w=440 400w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/OBMA4SK53P356TRWRVHOVHZ6FM.jpg&w=540 540w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/OBMA4SK53P356TRWRVHOVHZ6FM.jpg&w=691 691w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/OBMA4SK53P356TRWRVHOVHZ6FM.jpg&w=767 767w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/OBMA4SK53P356TRWRVHOVHZ6FM.jpg&w=916 916w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/OBMA4SK53P356TRWRVHOVHZ6FM.jpg&w=1200 1200w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/OBMA4SK53P356TRWRVHOVHZ6FM.jpg&w=1440&impolicy=high_res 1440w" style="background-size: cover; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 1200px; width: 1000px;" width="600" /></div></div><figcaption class="mr-auto-ns ml-auto-ns font--subhead font-xxxs mt-xs ml-gutter mr-gutter left gray-dark" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.25; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 8px; max-width: 640px; text-align: left;">Jack Smith in 2020. (Jerry Lampen/AP)</figcaption></figure></div></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-kgELQW-hasStyleDropCap-true wpds-c-cYdRxM-PeXBe-isStyleDropCapI-true wpds-c-cYdRxM-ikxhdjE-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span class="style-dropcap" data-testid="style-dropcap" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: left; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-magazine); font-size: 6.25rem; line-height: 0.85; margin: 0.1em 0.1em 0px 0px; min-width: var(--wpds-sizes-250); padding: 0px 3px; text-align: center;">I</span>n the life and times of Jack Smith as a righter of wrongs, there is one detour, the briefness of which says much about Jack Smith.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">It happened after he’d left Washington in 2015<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span>for Nashville, where he worked lower to the ground, initially as the second-in-command, then as the acting head of the U.S. attorney’s office there. He’d put in five years running public integrity operations and now 2½ as a prosecutor in Tennessee.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">If he’d been anyone else, no one would have been surprised when he announced in 2017 that he was leaving government service after more than two decades for a corporate job as the Hospital Corporation of America’s head of litigation. Fodeman, his former colleague, heard the news and thought to himself: “He’s never going to last at this.” The Jack Smith he knew<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span>seemed like a prosecution<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span>lifer.</p></div><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><br /></p><div class="wpds-c-PJLV wpds-c-PJLV-hQpAdy-isCenteredLayoutFullBleedImg-true article-body grid-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 4; grid-column-start: 1;"><div class="PJLV PJLV-iPJLV-css hide-for-print" data-qa="article-image" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><figure class="overflow-hidden relative hide-for-print center center mb-sm mb-md-ns ml-auto-ns mr-auto-ns" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin: 0px auto 24px; max-width: 1000px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; text-align: center; width: 1000px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="w-100 mw-100 h-auto" height="433" style="box-sizing: border-box; filter: blur(0px); height: auto; line-height: 0; max-width: 100%; transition: filter 0.1s; width: 1000px;" width="600"><img alt="" class="w-100 mw-100 h-auto" decoding="async" height="433" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 440px,(max-width: 768px) 691px,(max-width: 1023px) 916px,(max-width: 1199px) 1200px,(min-width: 1200px) 1440px,440px" srcset="https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/OBMA4SK53P356TRWRVHOVHZ6FM.jpg&w=440 400w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/OBMA4SK53P356TRWRVHOVHZ6FM.jpg&w=540 540w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/OBMA4SK53P356TRWRVHOVHZ6FM.jpg&w=691 691w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/OBMA4SK53P356TRWRVHOVHZ6FM.jpg&w=767 767w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/OBMA4SK53P356TRWRVHOVHZ6FM.jpg&w=916 916w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/OBMA4SK53P356TRWRVHOVHZ6FM.jpg&w=1200 1200w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/OBMA4SK53P356TRWRVHOVHZ6FM.jpg&w=1440&impolicy=high_res 1440w" style="background-size: cover; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 1200px; width: 1000px;" width="600" /></div></div><figcaption class="mr-auto-ns ml-auto-ns font--subhead font-xxxs mt-xs ml-gutter mr-gutter left gray-dark" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.25; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 8px; max-width: 640px; text-align: left;">Jack Smith in 2020. (Jerry Lampen/AP)</figcaption></figure></div></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-kgELQW-hasStyleDropCap-true wpds-c-cYdRxM-PeXBe-isStyleDropCapI-true wpds-c-cYdRxM-ikxhdjE-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span class="style-dropcap" data-testid="style-dropcap" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: left; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-magazine); font-size: 6.25rem; line-height: 0.85; margin: 0.1em 0.1em 0px 0px; min-width: var(--wpds-sizes-250); padding: 0px 3px; text-align: center;">I</span>n the life and times of Jack Smith as a righter of wrongs, there is one detour, the briefness of which says much about Jack Smith.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">It happened after he’d left Washington in 2015<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span>for Nashville, where he worked lower to the ground, initially as the second-in-command, then as the acting head of the U.S. attorney’s office there. He’d put in five years running public integrity operations and now 2½ as a prosecutor in Tennessee.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">If he’d been anyone else, no one would have been surprised when he announced in 2017 that he was leaving government service after more than two decades for a corporate job as the Hospital Corporation of America’s head of litigation. Fodeman, his former colleague, heard the news and thought to himself: “He’s never going to last at this.” The Jack Smith he knew<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span>seemed like a prosecution<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span>lifer.</p></div><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><br /></p><div class="wpds-c-PJLV wpds-c-PJLV-hQpAdy-isCenteredLayoutFullBleedImg-true article-body grid-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 4; grid-column-start: 1;"><div class="PJLV PJLV-iPJLV-css hide-for-print" data-qa="article-image" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><figure class="overflow-hidden relative hide-for-print center center mb-sm mb-md-ns ml-auto-ns mr-auto-ns" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin: 0px auto 24px; max-width: 1000px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; text-align: center; width: 1000px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="w-100 mw-100 h-auto" height="433" style="box-sizing: border-box; filter: blur(0px); height: auto; line-height: 0; max-width: 100%; transition: filter 0.1s; width: 1000px;" width="600"><img alt="" class="w-100 mw-100 h-auto" decoding="async" height="433" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 440px,(max-width: 768px) 691px,(max-width: 1023px) 916px,(max-width: 1199px) 1200px,(min-width: 1200px) 1440px,440px" srcset="https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/OBMA4SK53P356TRWRVHOVHZ6FM.jpg&w=440 400w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/OBMA4SK53P356TRWRVHOVHZ6FM.jpg&w=540 540w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/OBMA4SK53P356TRWRVHOVHZ6FM.jpg&w=691 691w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/OBMA4SK53P356TRWRVHOVHZ6FM.jpg&w=767 767w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/OBMA4SK53P356TRWRVHOVHZ6FM.jpg&w=916 916w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/OBMA4SK53P356TRWRVHOVHZ6FM.jpg&w=1200 1200w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/OBMA4SK53P356TRWRVHOVHZ6FM.jpg&w=1440&impolicy=high_res 1440w" style="background-size: cover; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 1200px; width: 1000px;" width="600" /></div></div><figcaption class="mr-auto-ns ml-auto-ns font--subhead font-xxxs mt-xs ml-gutter mr-gutter left gray-dark" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.25; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 8px; max-width: 640px; text-align: left;">Jack Smith in 2020. (Jerry Lampen/AP)</figcaption></figure></div></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-kgELQW-hasStyleDropCap-true wpds-c-cYdRxM-PeXBe-isStyleDropCapI-true wpds-c-cYdRxM-ikxhdjE-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span class="style-dropcap" data-testid="style-dropcap" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: left; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-magazine); font-size: 6.25rem; line-height: 0.85; margin: 0.1em 0.1em 0px 0px; min-width: var(--wpds-sizes-250); padding: 0px 3px; text-align: center;">I</span>n the life and times of Jack Smith as a righter of wrongs, there is one detour, the briefness of which says much about Jack Smith.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">It happened after he’d left Washington in 2015<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span>for Nashville, where he worked lower to the ground, initially as the second-in-command, then as the acting head of the U.S. attorney’s office there. He’d put in five years running public integrity operations and now 2½ as a prosecutor in Tennessee.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">If he’d been anyone else, no one would have been surprised when he announced in 2017 that he was leaving government service after more than two decades for a corporate job as the Hospital Corporation of America’s head of litigation. Fodeman, his former colleague, heard the news and thought to himself: “He’s never going to last at this.” The Jack Smith he knew<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span>seemed like a prosecution<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span>lifer.</p></div><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><br /></p><div class="wpds-c-PJLV wpds-c-PJLV-hQpAdy-isCenteredLayoutFullBleedImg-true article-body grid-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 4; grid-column-start: 1;"><div class="PJLV PJLV-iPJLV-css hide-for-print" data-qa="article-image" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><figure class="overflow-hidden relative hide-for-print center center mb-sm mb-md-ns ml-auto-ns mr-auto-ns" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin: 0px auto 24px; max-width: 1000px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; text-align: center; width: 1000px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="w-100 mw-100 h-auto" height="433" style="box-sizing: border-box; filter: blur(0px); height: auto; line-height: 0; max-width: 100%; transition: filter 0.1s; width: 1000px;" width="600"><img alt="" class="w-100 mw-100 h-auto" decoding="async" height="433" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 440px,(max-width: 768px) 691px,(max-width: 1023px) 916px,(max-width: 1199px) 1200px,(min-width: 1200px) 1440px,440px" srcset="https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/OBMA4SK53P356TRWRVHOVHZ6FM.jpg&w=440 400w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/OBMA4SK53P356TRWRVHOVHZ6FM.jpg&w=540 540w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/OBMA4SK53P356TRWRVHOVHZ6FM.jpg&w=691 691w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/OBMA4SK53P356TRWRVHOVHZ6FM.jpg&w=767 767w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/OBMA4SK53P356TRWRVHOVHZ6FM.jpg&w=916 916w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/OBMA4SK53P356TRWRVHOVHZ6FM.jpg&w=1200 1200w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/OBMA4SK53P356TRWRVHOVHZ6FM.jpg&w=1440&impolicy=high_res 1440w" style="background-size: cover; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 1200px; width: 1000px;" width="600" /></div></div><figcaption class="mr-auto-ns ml-auto-ns font--subhead font-xxxs mt-xs ml-gutter mr-gutter left gray-dark" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.25; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 8px; max-width: 640px; text-align: left;">Jack Smith in 2020. (Jerry Lampen/AP)</figcaption></figure></div></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-kgELQW-hasStyleDropCap-true wpds-c-cYdRxM-PeXBe-isStyleDropCapI-true wpds-c-cYdRxM-ikxhdjE-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span class="style-dropcap" data-testid="style-dropcap" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: left; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-magazine); font-size: 6.25rem; line-height: 0.85; margin: 0.1em 0.1em 0px 0px; min-width: var(--wpds-sizes-250); padding: 0px 3px; text-align: center;">I</span>n the life and times of Jack Smith as a righter of wrongs, there is one detour, the briefness of which says much about Jack Smith.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">It happened after he’d left Washington in 2015<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span>for Nashville, where he worked lower to the ground, initially as the second-in-command, then as the acting head of the U.S. attorney’s office there. He’d put in five years running public integrity operations and now 2½ as a prosecutor in Tennessee.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">If he’d been anyone else, no one would have been surprised when he announced in 2017 that he was leaving government service after more than two decades for a corporate job as the Hospital Corporation of America’s head of litigation. Fodeman, his former colleague, heard the news and thought to himself: “He’s never going to last at this.” The Jack Smith he knew<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span>seemed like a prosecution<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span>lifer.</p></div><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><br /></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><br /></p></div></div><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><br /></p></div><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><br /></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><br /></p></div><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><br /></p></div><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><br /></p></div></div></div><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><br /></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><br /></p></div></div>Ed Slavinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00298486886820876739noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25979735.post-17996501631342205132024-03-16T22:09:00.000-07:002024-03-16T22:09:31.561-07:00COURTS ISSUE THREE SIGNIFICANT DEI DECISIONS. (Morgan, Lewis & Bockius)<p><br /></p><p>Feculent fetid fulminating fascists like RONALD DION DeSANTIS are losing their attacks on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. How do you like them apples, rebarbative Republicans? This is America. From the website of the law firm of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius:</p><div class="oniblock oniblock-group" style="background: none; border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(65, 64, 66); color: #414042; font-family: HCoWhitney, arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="page-heading" style="background: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 30px; vertical-align: baseline;"><h2 style="background: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(100, 51, 128) !important; font-family: FuturaW01-ExtraBoldCond, arial; font-size: 16px !important; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1 !important; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding-bottom: 8px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-transform: uppercase !important; vertical-align: baseline;">LAWFLASH</h2><h1 class="small-head" style="background: none; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: FuturaW01-ExtraBoldCond, arial; font-size: 36px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 40px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline;">COURTS ISSUE THREE SIGNIFICANT DEI DECISIONS</h1><span class="small-head-next" style="background: none; border: 0px; color: #7b7b7b; display: block; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">March 12, 2024</span></span></div><div class="purple-para arrow-class" style="background: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="heading-brief" style="background: none; border: 0px; color: #643380; font-size: 20px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Last week, three federal courts issued significant decisions impacting the diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) legal landscape. Together, the cases demonstrate the rapidly evolving state of the law with respect to DEI.</p><ul style="background: none; border: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 6px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="background: url("/contents/images/arrow-light-grey1.png") 0px 4px no-repeat; border: 0px; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 8px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 18px; vertical-align: baseline;">In <a href="https://media.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/files/202213135.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: black;" target="_blank"><em style="background: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Honeyfund.com Inc., et al. v. DeSantis</em></a>, the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit (Eleventh Circuit) upheld an injunction that blocks enforcement of Florida’s Stop Wrongs to Our Kids and Employees (WOKE) Act, a law which effectively prohibited certain forms of DEI training by private employers, on the grounds that it impermissibly violates the First Amendment </li><li style="background: url("/contents/images/arrow-light-grey1.png") 0px 4px no-repeat; border: 0px; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 8px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 18px; vertical-align: baseline;">In <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/documents/2bc413fa-b7f9-48c9-b74b-7176015257c9.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: black;" target="_blank"><em style="background: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Nuziard, et al. v. Minority Business Development Agency</em></a>, a district court invalidated a federal agency’s application of a presumption that certain racial groups are economically or socially disadvantaged on the grounds that it violated the US Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause under the Fifth Amendment. </li><li style="background: url("/contents/images/arrow-light-grey1.png") 0px 4px no-repeat; border: 0px; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 18px; vertical-align: baseline;">Finally, in <a href="https://ww3.ca2.uscourts.gov/decisions/isysquery/dc1dc7b4-5382-4981-836f-e1550ffd96ce/1/doc/23-15_complete_opn.pdf#xml=https://ww3.ca2.uscourts.gov/decisions/isysquery/dc1dc7b4-5382-4981-836f-e1550ffd96ce/1/hilite/]#xml=https://ww3.ca2.uscourts.gov/decisions/isysquery/dc1dc7b4-5382-4981-836f-e1550ffd96ce/1/hilite/]" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: black;" target="_blank"><em style="background: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Do No Harm v. Pfizer</em></a>, the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (Second Circuit) held that the advocacy group challenging Pfizer’s diversity fellowship program did not have standing to challenge the program. </li></ul><h3 style="background: none; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: FuturaW01-ExtraBoldCond, arial; font-size: 18px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1em; margin: 30px 0px 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline;">11TH CIRCUIT BLOCKS DEI WORKPLACE TRAINING RESTRICTIONS</h3><p style="background: none; border: 0px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">On March 4, the Eleventh Circuit affirmed a decision that blocks the portion of Florida’s Stop WOKE Act—or the Individual Freedom Act—that would effectively prohibit employers from conducting certain forms of mandatory DEI training. </p><p style="background: none; border: 0px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In August 2022, the lower court had issued a preliminary injunction preventing enforcement of the provision of the Stop WOKE Act that prohibited employers from requiring employees to attend any workplace training that “espouses, promotes, advances, inculcates, or compels” employees to believe a specified list of ideas related to race, color, sex, or national origin, holding that it violated the First Amendment's right to freedom of speech, as it was an impermissible viewpoint-based regulation on speech. </p><p style="background: none; border: 0px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Eleventh Circuit affirmed the district court's order. The State of Florida had argued that the Stop WOKE Act only prohibits <em style="background: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">the conduct</em> of employers by prohibiting the commissioning of DEI trainings, not the <em style="background: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">speech</em> of employers to discuss DEI concepts. The Eleventh Circuit disagreed, noting that mandatory DEI trainings would be permitted under the act <em style="background: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">only if</em> the training <em style="background: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">endorses the viewpoints</em> that Florida’s current administration holds, which constitutes “an illegal per se ban on speech the state disagrees with.” </p><p style="background: none; border: 0px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Applying strict scrutiny, the Eleventh Circuit also rejected Florida's arguments that "it has a compelling interest in protecting individuals from being forced, under the threat of losing their jobs, to listen to speech 'espousing the moral superiority of one race over another,' 'proclaiming that an individual, by virtue of his or her race, is inherently racist,' or 'endorsing the racially discriminatory treatment of individuals because of past racist acts in which they played no part,'" and that "[t]hese categories of speech . . . . qualify as 'invidious discrimination' that the state can regulate." The Eleventh Circuit reasoned, "[the fact] that many people find these views deeply troubling does not mean that by banning them Florida is targeting discrimination." </p><p style="background: none; border: 0px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Eleventh Circuit also found that the Stop WOKE Act is not narrowly tailored, explaining:</p><p style="background: none; border: 0px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"Still, even if we presumed that the Act served the interest of combating discrimination in some way, its breadth and scope would doom it. Banning speech on a wide variety of political topics is bad; banning speech on a wide variety of political viewpoints is worse. A government's desire to protect the ears of its residents ‘is not enough to overcome the right to freedom of expression.’" </p><p style="background: none; border: 0px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Accordingly, the Eleventh Circuit held that the plaintiffs had a substantial likelihood of success on the merits of their claims and affirmed the district Court's preliminary injunction order.</p><p style="background: none; border: 0px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Implications for Employers</em></p><p style="background: none; border: 0px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This decision is welcome news for employers which promote within their businesses training and other policies focused on equity and inclusion. The Florida law was the first state law seeking to regulate the content of private employers’ trainings on DEI-related topics. It is possible the ruling will have a chilling effect on other <a href="https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/static/HB0111.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: black;" target="_blank">state legislation</a>that seeks to do the same thing.</p><p style="background: none; border: 0px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">That said, employers should continue to carefully review the content of their DEI trainings and weigh the pros and cons of making such trainings mandatory in consultation with counsel. Trainings that suggest that certain racial groups are inherently biased or have engaged in systemic racism may give rise to harassment claims under Title VII and analogous state laws. </p><p style="background: none; border: 0px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">For example, at least one court <a href="https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCOURTS-paed-2_23-cv-02281/pdf/USCOURTS-paed-2_23-cv-02281-0.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: black;" target="_blank">recently held</a> that requiring an employee to attend mandatory DEI trainings that “discussed racial issues in essentialist and deterministic terms—ascribing negative traits to white people or white teachers without exception and as flowing inevitably from their race” might create a hostile work environment on the basis of race.</p><h3 style="background: none; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: FuturaW01-ExtraBoldCond, arial; font-size: 18px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1em; margin: 30px 0px 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline;">DISTRICT COURT JUDGE FINDS MBDA’S PRESUMPTION OF DISADVANTAGE UNCONSTITUTIONAL</h3><p style="background: none; border: 0px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">On March 6, the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas sided with a group of plaintiffs that challenged the eligibility criteria for access to the US Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA), a federal agency with the explicit purpose of assisting minority-owned businesses. The specific legal question in this case was whether the program's presumption that certain racial groups are economically or socially disadvantaged, and thus eligible for the agency’s services, violated the Equal Protection Clause. </p><p style="background: none; border: 0px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The court applied a strict scrutiny analysis and found no compelling government interest and granted a permanent injunction barring MBDA from "using an applicant's race or ethnicity in determining whether they can receive business center programming."</p><p style="background: none; border: 0px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The court first considered whether MBDA had a compelling interest in remedying discrimination in credit access. The court applied the holding from <em style="background: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Students for Fair Admissions Inc. v. Pres. & Fellows of Harv. Coll.</em>, 600 U.S. 181 (2023) (<em style="background: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">SFFA</em>), which requires a showing of specifically identified instances of past discrimination that violated the US Constitution or a statute. Here, while the court acknowledged minority businesses still face economic disadvantages, it concluded the government had not shown specific instances of past discrimination that are causally linked to disadvantages today.</p><p style="background: none; border: 0px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The court did find that MBDA has a compelling interest in remedying past discrimination in government contracting. However, the court held that MBDA's program was not narrowly tailored to meet that compelling interest, reasoning that it was both under and over-inclusive because MBDA “uses a codified list of preferred races/ethnicities to determine who gets benefits and who doesn’t," which “presumes anyone from the listed groups is ‘socially or economically disadvantaged’ and is thus entitled to services” while “[a]nyone outside those groups—white or otherwise—is presumptively not disadvantaged and thus not entitled to benefits." </p><p style="background: none; border: 0px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The court noted that under MBDA’s program, even Oprah Winfrey would be considered "disadvantaged." Thus, the court concluded that MBDA's eligibility criteria for providing assistance to small businesses violated the Equal Protection Clause and was unconstitutional.</p><p style="background: none; border: 0px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This is not the first court to find such a presumption unconstitutional. As explained in this prior <a href="https://www.morganlewis.com/pubs/2023/08/sba-makes-major-changes-to-8a-business-development-program-regarding-social-disadvantage" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: black;" target="_blank">LawFlash</a>, a similar program operated by the US Small Business Administration was found unconstitutional by a Tennessee district court in July 2023, and a <a href="file:///C:/Users/MP100199/AppData/Roaming/iManage/Work/Recent/Firm%20Charge%20-%20Marketing%20and%20Communications%20Workspace%20(088888.1410)/Mid-America-Complaint-Re-DOT-DBE-Program.pdf%20(schwabe.com)" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: black;" target="_blank">challenge</a> to a US Department of Transportation program with a similar race-based presumption in its eligibility criteria is currently pending in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky.</p><p style="background: none; border: 0px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Implications for Employers</em></p><p style="background: none; border: 0px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This decision does not have a direct impact on private sector employers because it involved a federal government program, which was analyzed under the Fifth Amendment’s equal protection guarantees and not under any anti-discrimination statutes. It does, however, show how lower courts may apply the decision in <em style="background: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">SFFA</em> in other contexts where there are race-based eligibility criteria. As a result, employers should carefully evaluate whether their DEI programs contain any race, national origin, or gender-based eligibility criteria and consult with counsel to determine whether they create legal risk and balance such risk against the goals of such programs. </p><h3 style="background: none; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: FuturaW01-ExtraBoldCond, arial; font-size: 18px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1em; margin: 30px 0px 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline;">2ND CIRCUIT DETERMINES ADVOCACY GROUP LACKS STANDING </h3><p style="background: none; border: 0px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Do No Harm, an advocacy group comprised of physicians, nurses, medical students, patients, and policymakers, had filed a lawsuit challenging a Pfizer fellowship program that required applicants to "meet the program's goals of increasing the pipeline for Black/African Americans, Latino/Hispanic, and Native Americans," among other qualifications. </p><p style="background: none; border: 0px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Do No Harm had alleged that Pfizer's fellowship program unlawfully excludes White and Asian-American applicants on the basis of race and, therefore, violated federal and state laws. The US District Court for the Southern District of New York dismissed the suit because it held that the group did not have standing to challenge Pfizer's fellowship program. </p><p style="background: none; border: 0px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">On March 6, the Second Circuit agreed, holding that Do No Harm lacked standing because it failed to identify by name a single member of Do No Harm who was injured by Pfizer's fellowship program. The Second Circuit did not address the substantive question regarding the legality of the program. </p><p style="background: none; border: 0px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Implications for Employers</em></p><p style="background: none; border: 0px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This decision highlights one of the arguments available to defendants in challenges to DEI programs filed by legal advocacy groups. For example, in <em style="background: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Alexandre v. Amazon</em>, a case challenging an Amazon DEI grant program, the court dismissed the plaintiffs’ initial complaint for <a href="https://www.law360.com/dockets/documents/64fa5e6c545fbb02da6be0e6" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: black;" target="_blank">lack of standing</a> (although it granted plaintiff leave to amend, which it did). And in <em style="background: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Do No Harm v. Project HOPE</em>, the same association that brought the Pfizer case challenged a health equity fellowship. 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(WaPo)<p>Racist landlord FRED TRUMP, father of racist landlord DONALD JOHN TRUMP, was arrested at a KKK rally in 1927. The road apple evidently doesn't fall far from the horse. From <i>Washington Post:</i></p><div class="grid-full-inner-standard" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 1;"><header class="wpds-c-fGHEql" data-qa="main-full" style="box-sizing: border-box; width: 1124.184814px;"><div class="PJLV PJLV-iklXUFA-css" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 1000px; width: 1000px;"><h1 class="PJLV PJLV-ibtEjqu-css overrideStyles" data-qa="headline" data-testid="headline" id="main-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-headline); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-110); margin-bottom: var(--wpds-space-050); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 1000px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-025);"><span class="PJLV" data-qa="headline-text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: large;">Trump says some undocumented immigrants are ‘not people’</span></span></h1></div><h2 class="font--subhead font-light offblack mb-sm pb-xxs-ns subheadline" data-qa="subheadline" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.25rem; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.25; margin: 0px 0px 16px; max-width: 1000px; padding-bottom: 4px;">The former president also warned of “a bloodbath” if he does not defeat Joe Biden in November </h2><div>By Marisa Iati</div><div class="wpds-c-ffLlrl" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex;"><div class="wpds-c-hoWMuZ" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; max-width: 600px;"><div class="PJLV PJLV-ihSmMVC-css" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="PJLV PJLV-iPJLV-css mb-xxs overrideStyles" data-qa="author-byline" style="box-sizing: border-box; column-gap: 0.5rem; margin-bottom: 4px; row-gap: 0.5rem;"><span class="wpds-c-PJLV" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="flex items-center" data-qa="author-byline" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex;"><div class="mr-sm flex lh-0" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; line-height: 0; margin-right: 16px;"><div class="wpds-c-iTcer" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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(Video: The Washington Post)</div></figcaption></figure></div></div></div><div class="grid-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><div class="wpds-c-jUMcim wpds-c-jUMcim-iPJLV-css hide-for-print mb-sm" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: calc(var(--wpds-space-100)*-1); min-height: 40px; min-width: max-content;"><div class="PJLV PJLV-ieDMgMI-css flex items-center" config="[object Object]" data-qa="article-actions" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; gap: var(--wpds-space-100);"><div class="wpds-c-mfMEg" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br /></div><div class="wpds-c-mfMEg" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div></div></div><div class="meteredContent grid-center" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2;"><div class="teaser-content" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">VANDALIA, Ohio — Former president <a class="contextual_link" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/donald-trump/?itid=lk_inline_manual_2" style="border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">Donald Trump</a> ratcheted up his dehumanizing rhetoric against immigrants Saturday by saying that some who are accused of crimes are “not people.”</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">“I don’t know if you call them people,” he said at a rally near Dayton, Ohio. “In some cases they’re not people, in my opinion. But I’m not allowed to say that because the radical left says that’s a terrible thing to say.”</p><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, was in Ohio to stump for Senate candidate Bernie Moreno, who is <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/03/16/ohio-senate-republican-primary/?itid=lk_inline_manual_5" style="border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">in a tight three-way race</a> for the Republican nomination to challenge Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown. Moreno, a businessman, is facing Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose and state Sen. Matt Dolan in Tuesday’s primary.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV wpds-c-PJLV-bHCGeL-isStandardLayoutAd-true article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">In his own remarks on immigration Saturday, Moreno said foreigners who come to the United States should learn English.</p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="caret-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">“We don’t need to vote in five different languages. We learn the language,” said Moreno, a Colombian immigrant, wrongly claiming that English is the national language. “It means you assimilate. You become part of America; America doesn’t become part of you.”</span></p><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">Later in the rally, Trump warned it will be a “bloodbath for the country” if he is not elected. The comment came as he was promising to hike tariffs on foreign-made cars, and it was not clear exactly what Trump was referring to with his admonition.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">“Now we’re going to put a 100 percent tariff on every single car that comes across [the] line, and you’re not going to be able to sell those guys — if I get elected,” he said. “Now, if I don’t get elected, it’s going to be a bloodbath for the whole. That’s going to be the least of it. It’s going to be a bloodbath for the country.”</p><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">The Biden campaign characterized the comment as a promise of political violence.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">“This is who Donald Trump is: a loser who gets beat by over 7 million votes and then instead of appealing to a wider mainstream audience doubles down on his threats of political violence,” spokesman James Singer said in a statement. “He wants another January 6, but the American people are going to give him another electoral defeat this November because they continue to reject his extremism, his affection for violence, and his thirst for revenge.”</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">Steven Cheung, a spokesman for Trump’s campaign, said Trump’s remark was not about violence, but rather was an extension of Trump’s comments about imported cars.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV wpds-c-PJLV-bHCGeL-isStandardLayoutAd-true article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">“If you actually watch and listen to the section, he was talking about the auto industry and tariffs,” he wrote in an email, adding that “Biden’s policies will create an economic bloodbath for the auto industry and autoworkers.”</p><div class="meteredContent grid-center" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2;"><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">Immigration is shaping up to be an explosive issue in the presidential campaign. Trump and <a class="contextual_link" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/candidates/joe-biden-2024/?itid=lk_inline_manual_20" style="border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">President Biden</a> <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/02/29/biden-trump-border-immigration-texas/?itid=lk_inline_manual_20" style="border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">staged dueling visits</a> to Texas border towns last month, castigating each other for a recent surge in illegal immigration.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">Trump said the influx of migrants was “a Joe Biden invasion.” Biden blamed Trump for the death of a $20 billion bipartisan bill to increase detention capacity and hire thousands of Border Patrol officers.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV wpds-c-PJLV-bHCGeL-isStandardLayoutAd-true article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">Trump’s comments Saturday represent an escalation of his long-harsh language on the topic. Since beginning his 2016 campaign <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/06/16/theyre-rapists-presidents-trump-campaign-launch-speech-two-years-later-annotated/?itid=lk_inline_manual_23" style="border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">by calling Mexican immigrants</a> “rapists,” Trump has made inflammatory attacks on migrants a theme of all of his campaigns. He accused immigrants in October of <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/12/22/trump-campaign-immigrants-mass-deportations/?itid=lk_inline_manual_23" style="border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">“poisoning the blood of our country”</a> — a remark some likened to the “contamination of the blood” concept that Adolf Hitler laid out in “Mein Kampf.” Trump has rejected that comparison and has continued to use similar language.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">He has also <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/02/20/trump-mass-deportations-immigration/?itid=lk_inline_manual_24" style="border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">pledged to launch</a> an unprecedented deportation effort if elected, pointing as inspiration to a 1954 program called “Operation Wetback” that used military-style tactics to remove Mexican immigrants from the country.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); 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(Tampa Bay Times)<p>This was so wrong. City of St. Augustine officials under longtime City Manager WILLIAM BARRY HARRISS threatened to call the police on Dr. Dwight Hines, Ph.D. and I when we asked for records relating to the City's illegal dumping of a landfill in a lake (Old City Reservoir). HARRISS and his hey-boy, Assistant City Manager JOHN PATRICK REGAN, P.E. had a habit and routine practice of abusing their authority, with REGAN purporting to ban me from City Hall by officious threatening letter, wo which former City Attorney James Patrick Wilson responded swiftly, as my lawyer, as REGAN tired to stir up a criminal investigation for asking questions about the City's mishandling of Mayor Nancy Shaver's December 1, 2014 inauguration. Rebarbative REGAN and repressive HARRISS ran the town as Republican Lords of All They Surveyed. They were a barrel of laughs. They will not be missed. </p><p>From<i> Tampa Bay Times:</i></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><div class="layout--md" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "Hoefler Text", "Liberation Serif", Times, "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px auto; width: 70.4rem;"><div class="article__headline-container" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 62rem;"><h1 class="balance-text article__headline" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Roboto, "Franklin Gothic", gotham, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.15; margin: 0px 0px 1.6rem; max-width: 618.355469px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Tampa fire chief ordered police called on a local journalist asking for records</span></h1><div class="balance-text article__summary" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, gotham, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 2rem; 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Tripp ordered a department dispatcher to summon the cops. A 911 call was placed by a department dispatcher a minute later." class="lazy-loaded" height="auto" itemprop="image" src="https://www.tampabay.com/resizer//YONif2hmxCrveVdnr5aG3eiJGUA=/900x506/smart/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/VH5ILGUHLVHO5NRET3KKWMAL7U.JPG" style="border-style: none; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; opacity: 1; transition: opacity 0.5s 0.5s; width: 900px;" title="Fire Chief Barbara Tripp initiated a call to Tampa Police after a Tampa Bay Times reporter sought public records last month at Tampa Fire Rescue's downtown headquarters. Tripp ordered a department dispatcher to summon the cops. A 911 call was placed by a department dispatcher a minute later." width="900" /></picture></div><figcaption class="caption" itemprop="description" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Roboto, "Franklin Gothic", gotham, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.5rem; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 2rem; margin: 0.8rem auto 0px; max-width: calc(-3.2rem + 100vw); position: relative; text-rendering: geometricprecision; transition: height 0.33s, opacity 0.5s;">Fire Chief Barbara Tripp initiated a call to Tampa Police after a Tampa Bay Times reporter sought public records last month at Tampa Fire Rescue's downtown headquarters. Tripp ordered a department dispatcher to summon the cops. A 911 call was placed by a department dispatcher a minute later. <span class="caption__credit" style="box-sizing: border-box;">[ ARIELLE BADER | Special to the Times ]</span></figcaption></figure></div></div><div class="layout--md" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "Hoefler Text", "Liberation Serif", Times, "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px auto; width: 70.4rem;"><div class="article__byline" style="align-items: flex-start; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Roboto, "Franklin Gothic", gotham, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.6rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px auto 2.4rem; max-width: 62rem;"><span class="article__byline--by" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-weight: 400;">By </span><ul class="article__byline--list" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a 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But it holds special significance to us. And it should for you.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 2.4rem 0px;"></p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 2.4rem 0px;">It’s a weeklong opportunity beginning Sunday to note the importance of public records and open government. It also can be a chance to call out those who try to keep the public in the dark.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; margin: 2.4rem 0px;">Let me share one chilling example. A couple of weeks ago, <a href="https://www.tampabay.com/author/justin-garcia/" style="border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #238e74; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.25s, text-decoration 0.25s, -webkit-text-decoration 0.25s;" target="_blank">Tampa Bay Times reporter Justin Garcia </a>showed up, as any individual can do, to the downtown headquarters of the Tampa Fire Rescue Department. He was interested in paperwork <a href="https://www.tampabay.com/news/tampa/2024/02/21/firefighter-fire-department-paramedic-hospital-training-fired-racism-monkey-allegations/" style="border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #238e74; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.25s, text-decoration 0.25s, -webkit-text-decoration 0.25s;">pertaining to a firefighter who had been terminated</a>.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; margin: 2.4rem 0px;">A department employee in the third-floor lobby claimed that access to public records doesn’t work that way. There is an online portal where Justin needed to make his request, she told him.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; margin: 2.4rem 0px;">Justin had already done that. But he also apparently knew the ins and outs of Florida’s records law better than the gatekeepers of those documents. You’d be surprised — and dismayed — how often government officials have no idea how public records laws actually work.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; margin: 2.4rem 0px;">When Personnel Chief Robbie Northrop showed up, Justin again tried to make his case. The law permits anyone to request and view documents in person, and government agencies should comply unless there’s a good reason. Northrop left for a while. He returned, Justin said, to hammer away at the point that we wouldn’t be getting anything now since we had made the online request.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; margin: 2.4rem 0px;">Justin cited <a href="http://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&URL=0100-0199/0119/0119.html" style="border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #238e74; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.25s, text-decoration 0.25s, -webkit-text-decoration 0.25s;" target="_blank">Florida’s Chapter 119</a>, which he had called up on his phone, while seated on the lobby couch. It says, “all state, county and municipal records are open for personal inspection and copying by any person.” According to Justin, this appeared to further irk Northrop, who repeatedly insisted he knew the law, when it was obvious that he didn’t.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 2.4rem 0px;">“I couldn’t even finish my sentence,” Justin told me. “He kept interrupting.”</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 2.4rem 0px;">If you have met Justin Garcia, he’s a thoughtful and sharp reporter. We hired him about a year ago from Creative Loafing because we were tired of him scooping us. He’s dogged, but he does not exude in-your-face intensity. Rudeness is not his style, and it’s part of the reason sources generally respond to him.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 2.4rem 0px;">When Justin tried to ask for a clearer explanation, Northrop ended the discussion. That would be enough questioning of authority, apparently.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 2.4rem 0px;">Northrop then asked an office worker, according to Justin, to “go ahead and call TPD on him.”</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 2.4rem 0px;">Let that soak in. A reporter from the Tampa Bay Times asked to see public records, and the fire department’s response was to call the cops.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 2.4rem 0px;">Was the personnel chief trying to intimidate a journalist? Did he believe Justin’s attempt to get answers had crossed the line into criminal behavior? Did he not like Justin’s long hair? Northrop wouldn’t agree to be interviewed by the Times.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 2.4rem 0px;">In the initial days after the lobby encounter, it remained a mystery how the police were notified. It took rounds and rounds of questions over nine days to extract the details.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 2.4rem 0px;">Northrop had told the office worker — who witnessed the entire thing — to call the police. But she claimed in a written statement that she didn’t have time.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 2.4rem 0px;">So someone marched over to fire Chief Barbara Tripp’s office and urged her to initiate the call.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 2.4rem 0px;">And Tampa’s top firefighter did.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 2.4rem 0px;">Justin had left by the time the cavalry arrived.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 2.4rem 0px;">Mayor Jane Castor’s spokesperson Adam Smith acknowledged that none of this should have happened.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 2.4rem 0px;">Smith told us that Northrop isn’t normally the custodian of records and isn’t used to handling requests from the public or from reporters. He said the personnel chief came to the lobby because he was informed that Justin was creating a disturbance.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 2.4rem 0px;">Afterward, Northrop collected three brief statements from fire department staff who were present. In one, a captain did not call out issues with the way Justin had comported himself, only to say that he was persistent and insistent. (Good journalistic qualities.) Two lower-ranking employees described him as combative and agitated. Justin’s demeanor was the reason the police had to be involved, according to Northrop.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 2.4rem 0px;">“Mr. Garcia persisted in being argumentative and repetitive and refused to accept the answer and leave,” wrote Northrop in his personal memo to Smith in response to inquiries from the Times. Justin said he never raised his voice.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 2.4rem 0px;">Tripp, according to Justin, had waved politely to him in the lobby when he first arrived but wasn’t present for any of the interaction with Northrop. When Tripp told dispatchers to summon the police, she also used the word “argumentative,” according to an audio recording of the phone call that we obtained. She didn’t mention that Justin was a reporter but an “individual” who was being “unruly towards personnel.”</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 2.4rem 0px;">No matter how you want to spin it, though, journalists are supposed to ask questions and seek explanations. That may rankle people in power, but it doesn’t constitute an unruly disturbance.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 2.4rem 0px;">Think about the alarming message the episode sends to all Tampa Bay area journalists when asking too many questions can lead to this.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 2.4rem 0px;">“No one should ever call the police on a reporter even if that reporter is being belligerent, obnoxious and aggressive,” said Smith.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 2.4rem 0px;">Or, for the sake of total clarity here, when he is being none of those things.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 2.4rem 0px;">About 90 minutes after Tripp ordered the police called, Smith provided the records to the Times.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 2.4rem 0px;">“It was a misunderstanding,” Smith said. “It sounds like we need to have a conversation about that.”</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 2.4rem 0px;">“We have 4,600 employees,” he added later. “He (Northrop) has been in this particular job for a month, and we need to make sure our employees are trained so they know what is appropriate and what’s not appropriate.”</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 2.4rem 0px;">And what’s the excuse for Tripp, who has been running the department for almost four years?</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 2.4rem 0px;">As we recognize Sunshine Week, let’s hope government agencies throughout Florida have meaningful conversations with their employees, top to bottom, about complying with the state’s public records law. We’d be happy to sponsor a refresher course.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 2.4rem 0px;">If you’re wondering, the Times asked to view any video surveillance showing the lobby encounter between Justin and the personnel chief.</p><article class="article__body" id="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.6; margin: auto; max-width: 62rem; position: relative;"><section style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 2.4rem 0px;">City officials initially denied the request — citing security reasons. Then they told us no such video exists.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 2.4rem 0px;">This time the police were left out of it.</p></section></article><div class="article__authors" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; display: flow-root; font-size: 16px; margin: auto; max-width: 62rem;"><ul class="article__authors--list" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><li class="article__authors--list-item test" style="-webkit-box-flex: 1; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 1 0 50%; margin-bottom: 2rem;"><div class="author-bio article" style="-webkit-box-orient: horizontal; align-items: flex-start; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: row; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Roboto, "Franklin Gothic", gotham, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><a class="author-bio__image--wrapper" href="https://www.tampabay.com/author/mark-katches" style="border-radius: 50%; 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(Politico)<p>From<i> Politico: </i></p><p><br /></p><div class="container__row container__row--story story-layout--fixed-fluid" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(105, 109, 112); color: #696d70; display: flex; flex-direction: column; font-family: din-2014, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><div class="container__column container__column--story" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px; width: 862.17395px;"><section class="media-item media-item--story media-item--story-lead" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="media-item__summary size--medium" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><h2 class="headline" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-size: 1.75rem; letter-spacing: -0.05rem; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0.5rem;">Florida Democrats suspend 3 county chairs in move to get party ‘back on track’</h2><p class="dek" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0.5rem 0px 0px;">The ousters were praised by DNC Chair Jaime Harrison. </p></div><div class="media-item__image" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.875rem;"><div class="media-item__image-wrapper" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><figure class="art " style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><div class="fig-graphic" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><picture style="box-sizing: border-box;"><source media="(min-width: 1160px)" srcset="https://www.politico.com/dims4/default/74f1257/2147483647/strip/true/crop/5220x3480+0+0/resize/630x420!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fstatic.politico.com%2Fab%2F36%2F0e7dca4e4c9cbccf9863b99c639d%2Felection-2022-florida-governor-34004.jpg 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0.35); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.625rem; padding-bottom: 0.625rem;">Florida Democratic Party Chair Nikki Fried said the move was part of “an overall strategy to get our local parties back on track.” | Marta Lavandier/AP</p><div class="story-meta__authors-timestamp has-social-tools " style="align-items: center; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: row; justify-content: space-between; letter-spacing: 0.1rem; margin-top: 0.46875rem;"><div class="story-meta__details" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5;"><p class="story-meta__authors" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;">By <span class="vcard" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-transform: uppercase;"><a href="https://www.politico.com/staff/kimberly-leonard" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #6e7381; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: 0.25s;" 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Robert Dempster, Palm Beach chair Mindy Koch and Franklin County chair Carol Barfield.</p><section class="page-content__row page-content__row--story" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 84.375rem; padding: 1.875rem 1.875rem 0px; position: relative;"><div class="container container--story story-layout--fluid-fixed" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: row;"><div class="container__column container__column--story summary-middle" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex: 1 1 0%; min-width: 0px; width: 862.17395px;"><div class="container__row container__row--story story-layout--fixed-fluid" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex: 1 1 0%; margin-top: 0.625rem;"><div class="container__column container__column--story center-horizontally" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; flex-direction: column; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px; width: 862.17395px;"><div class="story-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 39.375rem;"><p class="story-text__paragraph " style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px;">Florida Democratic Party Chair Nikki Fried said in a statement that the move was part of “an overall strategy to get our local parties back on track.” The state party had tried to address issues for a year through an assessment team she created when she got elected about a year ago to lead state Democrats, she said.</p></div></div></div></div><div class="container__column container__column--story hide-under-small" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; margin-left: 1.875rem; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px; width: 18.75rem;"><div aria-label="Advertisement" class="
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#TakeBackFlorida (opens in a new window)" class=" js-tealium-tracking " data-tracking="mpos=&mid=&lindex=&lcol=" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TakeBackFlorida?src=hashtag_click" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #007bc7; text-decoration: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: 0.25s;" target="_blank">#TakeBackFlorida</a>.”</p><p class="story-text__paragraph " data-content-child-index="0-2" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1.875rem;">The state party detailed a slew of complaints for the chairs. It said Franklin County was missing a membership list and audits of finances from 2022 that had been due April 2023. Barfield did not respond to a request for comment.</p><p class="story-text__paragraph " data-content-child-index="0-3" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1.875rem;">The party accused Koch of Palm Beach of failing to cancel contracts that weren’t approved by the Democratic executive committee. Koch, in an interview, attributed the issues to division among Democratic members in the county and said she was “gobsmacked” by the decision.</p><p class="story-text__paragraph " data-content-child-index="0-4" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1.875rem;">“Just like the rest of the country, Palm Beach County is divided,” she said. “I won by one vote and that wasn’t enough for some people to let me do my job. This is the outgrowth of that decision.”</p><p class="story-text__paragraph " data-content-child-index="0-5" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1.875rem;">She said the county had an extremely successful phone banking event during the last two weekends and a successful fundraising event in February with Democratic Rep. <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Jamie Raskin</span> of Maryland.</p><p class="story-text__paragraph " data-content-child-index="0-6" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px;">“You can’t disengage me; I’m just a Democrat working hard to engage Democrats,” she said. “I will continue to work hard for those folks.”</p></div></div><div class="container__column container__column--story center-vertically right-zone hide-under-small" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; 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display: flex; flex-direction: row; flex: 1 1 0%;"><div class="container__column container__column--story center-horizontally" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; flex-direction: column; flex: 1 1 0%; min-width: 0px; width: 862.17395px;"><div class="story-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 39.375rem;"><p class="story-text__paragraph " style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1.875rem;">The party accused Miami-Dade Democrats of failing to reach a quorum at meetings having outdated membership lists. It also said Miami-Dade needed to show that 90 percent of the district committee positions were filled in order to endorse local candidates, as the county had done. </p><p class="story-text__paragraph " style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1.875rem;">Dempster argued that other counties had failed to reach quorums but not been suspended, and said the issue of Miami-Dade needing to show a high percentage of committee positions filled was an obscure bylaw that hasn’t historically been enforced. He said he didn’t think the issue of a “minor technicality” rose to the level of forcing out a county chair. </p><p class="story-text__paragraph " style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1.875rem;">“Nikki Fried is taking a page from Ron DeSantis, using obscure bylaws and minor technicalities to remove officials she doesn’t like when we should instead be focused on winning elections for Democrats,” he said. “It’s especially egregious she is targeting me, a democratically-elected Black party leader in Miami-Dade county, in this climate of rising anti-Blackness in Florida.”</p><p class="story-text__paragraph " style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1.875rem;">Palm Beach and Miami-Dade Counties <a aria-label="
have more (opens in a new window)" class=" js-tealium-tracking " data-tracking="mpos=&mid=&lindex=&lcol=" href="https://dos.fl.gov/elections/data-statistics/voter-registration-statistics/voter-registration-reports/voter-registration-by-county-and-party/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #007bc7; text-decoration: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: 0.25s;" target="_blank">have more</a> registered Democratic voters than Republicans, though GOP registrations have been closing the gap. A poll from <a aria-label="
EMC Research predicted (opens in a new window)" class=" js-tealium-tracking " data-tracking="mpos=&mid=&lindex=&lcol=" href="https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article286148661.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #007bc7; text-decoration: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: 0.25s;" target="_blank">EMC Research predicted</a> former President Donald Trump would win Miami-Dade in November — something he didn’t do in 2016 and 2020 despite winning Florida overall.</p><p class="story-text__paragraph " style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px;">Florida Democrats sent a compliance notice to the chairs in February and then told them they were suspended March 4. The Central Committee, which has 120 members, will next have to vote on formal removal. The meeting for removal hasn’t been scheduled yet, and vice chairs of each county will be in charge until new chairs are elected.</p><p class="story-text__paragraph " style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px;"></p></div></div></div></div></div></section></section></div></div></div>Ed Slavinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00298486886820876739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25979735.post-26948735430227123242024-03-10T12:24:00.000-07:002024-03-16T12:47:57.813-07:00Biden leans into his age and effectiveness in his first post-Super Tuesday ad in battleground states. (AP/WaPo, March 9, 2024)<p>President Joe Biden has the "right stuff" to stand up to oppression at home and abroad. He also has a sense of humor, humility and unparalleled ability. He spoke to St. Augustine residents as VP in 2012, at Kettrlinus School, where I responded to his call-and-response campaign questions. The Vice President asked the crowd who supported the Romney-Ryan ticket, and I responded, "The country clubs." Vice President Joe Biden agreed, concurring in my judgment. <a href="https://cleanupcityofstaugustine.blogspot.com/2020/04/vp-joe-bidens-2012-speech-at.html">https://cleanupcityofstaugustine.blogspot.com/2020/04/vp-joe-bidens-2012-speech-at.html</a></p><p>From AP and<i> The Washington Post:</i></p><p><br /></p><div class="grid-full-inner-standard" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 1;"><header class="wpds-c-fGHEql" data-qa="main-full" style="box-sizing: border-box; width: 1124.184814px;"><div class="PJLV PJLV-iklXUFA-css" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 1000px; width: 1000px;"><h1 class="PJLV PJLV-ihMAsLZ-css overrideStyles" data-qa="headline" data-testid="headline" id="main-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-headline); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-110); margin-bottom: var(--wpds-space-100); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 1000px;"><span class="PJLV" data-qa="headline-text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Biden leans into his age and effectiveness in his first post-Super Tuesday ad in battleground states</span></span></h1></div><div class="wpds-c-ffLlrl" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex;"><div class="wpds-c-hoWMuZ" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; max-width: 600px;"><div class="PJLV PJLV-ihSmMVC-css" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="PJLV PJLV-iPJLV-css mb-xxs overrideStyles" data-qa="author-byline" style="box-sizing: border-box; column-gap: 0.5rem; margin-bottom: 4px; row-gap: 0.5rem;"><span class="wpds-c-PJLV" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="flex items-center" data-qa="author-byline" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="flex" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex;"><div class="dib font-xxs" data-cy="name-with-optional-link" data-qa="name-with-optional-link" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-size: 1rem;"><span class="wpds-c-cNdzuP" data-qa="attribution-text" style="box-sizing: border-box;">By </span><span class="wpds-c-cNdzuP wpds-c-cNdzuP-cIdiJW-isLink-false" data-qa="author-name" rel="author" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Zeke Miller | AP</span></div></div></span></div></span></div></div><div class="wpds-c-elYpxo wpds-c-elYpxo-ieEDlgV-css" data-testid="timestamp" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2;"><div class="teaser-content" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">WASHINGTON — President <a class="contextual_link" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/candidates/joe-biden-2024/?itid=lk_inline_manual_1" style="border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">Joe Biden</a> is making no excuses for his age in the first campaign ad of a $30 million buy across battleground states after Super Tuesday, casting himself as more effective than his predecessor, <a class="contextual_link" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/donald-trump/?itid=lk_inline_manual_1" style="border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">Donald Trump</a>.</p><div class="teaser-content" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6e4ruziZBI" style="border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;">The 60-second spot</a> opens with Biden, 81, addressing one of voters’ top concerns about his bid for a second term, acknowledging to viewers, “Look, I’m not a young guy, that’s no secret.”</p></div></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">“But here’s the deal, I understand how to get things done for the American people,” Biden adds, ticking through a list of accomplishments, including leading the country through the COVID-19 pandemic, cutting drug prices and strengthening the economy.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV wpds-c-PJLV-bHCGeL-isStandardLayoutAd-true article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">The, six-week advertising blitz on TV and digital platforms is designed to highlight the main themes from Thursday’s State of the Union address, and is geared to Black, Asian and Hispanic communities. But the opening ad is meant to tackle a concern shared by a wide swath of voters.</p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="caret-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Biden’s age has become a key vulnerability on the campaign trail — though many voters share the same concerns about Trump, who is 77. A </span><a href="https://apnews.com/article/biden-state-of-union-mental-capacity-trump-reelection-66d8784586d21f30885d8153f949510c#:~:text=AP%20correspondent%20Josh%20Boak%20reports,president%2C%20while%2061%25%20disapprove." style="border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;">recent survey</a><span style="caret-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that 63% say they’re not very or not at all confident in Biden’s mental capability to serve effectively as president. In the poll, 57% said Trump lacks the memory and acuity for the job.</span></p><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">Meanwhile, a super PAC backing Trump has released an ad highlighting Biden’s age, declaring, “If Biden wins, can he even survive till 2029?”</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">Biden’s ad closes with what is presented as an outtake, as he beams into the camera and quips, “Look, I’m very young, energetic and handsome. What the hell am I doing this for?”</p></div></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV wpds-c-PJLV-bHCGeL-isStandardLayoutAd-true article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-testid="article-body-ad-desktop" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both;"><div aria-hidden="true" class="hide-for-print relative flex justify-center content-box items-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="align-items: center; border-left-color: currentcolor; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: currentcolor; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; box-sizing: initial; display: flex; justify-content: center; margin-bottom: 24px; min-height: 250px; padding-bottom: 32px; padding-top: 32px; position: relative;"><div class="center absolute w-100 border-box" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: absolute; text-align: center; width: 640px;"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-border-color: var(--wpds-colors-alpha25); box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-family: Franklin, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.75rem; line-height: 1.25; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px;"></div></div><div class="relative flex flex-column justify-center w-100" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; justify-content: center; min-height: 250px; min-width: 300px; position: relative; width: 640px;"><wp-ad aria-hidden="true" class="chromatic-ignore" data-chromatic="ignore" data-google-query-id="CMnY0d7B-YQDFUMMswAdKZYN5w" data-json="{"targeting":{"zeus_rendercount":"2","zeus_slot":"slug_inline_bb.ref.dsk","pos":"inline_bb","ctr":["zeus_inline_bb_refresh","refresh"],"wp_ad_refresh":"1","wp_refresh":"inline_bb_1","pwt":["inline_bb_refresh_sub_sin_nav_1-variant","inline_bb_refresh_sub_sin_mab_0","inline_bb_refresh_sub_sin_v_0"]}}" data-refresh="true" data-renderbehavior="lazy" data-slot-size="620x250" data-slot="/701/wpni.politics" id="slug_inline_bb" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; margin: auto; min-height: 250px; width: 620px;"><div class="teads-inread xs-screen" style="box-sizing: content-box; height: 314.98642px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 440px; overflow: hidden; transition: height;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="teads-ui-components-adchoices" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 100% center; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: 15px 15px; background: url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,PHN2Zw0KICB2ZXJzaW9uPSIxLjEiDQogIGJhc2VQcm9maWxlPSJmdWxsIg0KICB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPg0KICA8c3R5bGU+DQogICAgLyogPCFbQ0RBVEFbICovDQogICAgLmFkY2hvaWNlcyB7DQogICAgICB0ZXh0LXJlbmRlcmluZzogZ2VvbWV0cmljUHJlY2lzaW9uOw0KICAgICAgZmlsbC1vcGFjaXR5OiAxLjA7DQogICAgICBmaWxsOiAjMDBhZWNkOw0KICAgICAgc3Ryb2tlOiBub25lOw0KICAgIH0NCiAgICAvKiBdXT4gKi8NCiAgPC9zdHlsZT4NCiAgPHN2ZyBjbGFzcz0iYWRjaG9pY2VzIiB4PSIwcHgiPg0KICAgIDxjaXJjbGUgY3g9IjYiIGN5PSI2IiByPSIwLjY3Ij48L2NpcmNsZT4NCiAgICA8cGF0aCBkPSJNNC4yLDExLjNRMy4zLDExLjgsMy4zLDEwLjc1TDMuMyw0LjFRMy4zLDMuMSw0LjMsMy41TDEwLjQsNy4wUTEyLjAsNy41LDEwLjQsOC4wTDYuNjUsMTAuMEw2LjY1LDcuNzVhMC42NSwwLjY1LDAsMSwwLC0xLjMsMEw1LjM1LDEwLjc1YTAuOSwwLjksMCwwLDAsMS4zLDAuOEwxMi43LDguMlExMy43LDcuNSwxMi43LDYuN0wzLjMsMS42UTIuMiwxLjMsMS44LDIuNUwxLjgsMTIuNVEyLjIsMTMuOSwzLjMsMTMuM0w0LjgsMTIuNUEwLjMsMC4zLDAsMSwwLDQuMiwxMS4zWiI+PC9wYXRoPg0KICA8L3N2Zz4NCjwvc3ZnPg0K") 100% center / 15px 15px no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: arial; font-size: 11px; height: 15px; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 1px; position: absolute; right: 5px; top: 3px; width: 15px; z-index: 1;"></div></div></div></wp-ad></div></div></div></div><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><br /></p></div></div></div></div></article>Ed Slavinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00298486886820876739noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25979735.post-47853371514090241852024-03-03T04:51:00.000-08:002024-03-03T04:51:14.790-08:00ANNALS OF DeSANTISTAN: University of Florida eliminates DEI staff to comply with state law. (WaPo)<p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><div class="H6xoiYk9CmocUDQFGGD6" style="background-color: rgba(8, 8, 8, 0.2); bottom: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 238); color: #0000ee; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; height: 315px; opacity: 0; pointer-events: none; position: absolute; top: 0px; transition: opacity 0.3s ease; width: 400.484375px; z-index: 1;"></div><picture style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 238); color: #0000ee; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><source srcset="https://media.gettyimages.com/id/1190296349/photo/sunrise-florida-u-s-president-donald-trump-introduces-florida-governor-ron-desantis-during-a.jpg?s=612x612&w=0&k=20&c=Am6pZlfyEi-g7DJQq-mGy3USNe32jCytfNwO9lmW__w=" style="box-sizing: inherit;" type="image/jpeg"></source><img alt="President Donald Trump introduces Florida Governor Ron DeSantis during a homecoming campaign rally at the BB&T Center on November 26, 2019 in..." class="BLA_wBUJrga_SkfJ8won" height="480" src="https://media.gettyimages.com/id/1190296349/photo/sunrise-florida-u-s-president-donald-trump-introduces-florida-governor-ron-desantis-during-a.jpg?s=612x612&w=0&k=20&c=Am6pZlfyEi-g7DJQq-mGy3USNe32jCytfNwO9lmW__w=" style="border-style: none; box-sizing: inherit; display: block; height: 315px; max-height: 100%; max-width: 100%; object-fit: cover; transition: opacity 0.3s ease; width: 400.484375px;" width="612" /></picture><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">I remember young RONALD DION DeSANTIS with a gimlet eye. He was our distracted, other-directed right-wing Congressman from St. Johns County 2013-2018. First saw him at League of Women Voters/St. Augustine Record debate/forum at County Administration Building in 2012. Saw right through him. You do, too. I feel sorry for the bumptious, bigoted, anti-science, lawless, louche Boy Governor. No charisma. Soulless corporate doormat. Does he sound like a whiny kvetch queen, a querulous quockerwodger, a kooky crackpot curmudgeon, intolerant, insolent, nasty, brutish, bullying and inept? You tell me.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">In 2024 even the Koch faction has dropped him. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Say "goodnight Gracie," to our burned-0ut has-been graceless GQP Governor.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">From<i> The Washington Post:</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><h1 class="PJLV PJLV-iirWFJy-css overrideStyles" data-qa="headline" data-testid="headline" id="main-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray20); font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-headline); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-110); margin: 0px 0px var(--wpds-space-050); max-width: 1000px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-025);"><span class="PJLV" data-qa="headline-text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">University of Florida eliminates DEI staff to comply with state law</span></span></h1><div><br /></div><div><div class="grid-full-inner-standard" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 1;"><header class="w-100" data-qa="main-full" style="box-sizing: border-box; width: 1124.184814453125px;"><h2 class="font--subhead font-light offblack mb-sm pb-xxs-ns subheadline" data-qa="subheadline" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray20); font-family: Franklin, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.25rem; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.25; margin: 0px 0px 16px; max-width: 1000px; padding-bottom: 4px;">The state flagship school announced the cuts Friday, but said it is ‘unwavering in our commitment to universal human dignity’</h2><div class="wpds-c-ffLlrl" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex;"><div class="wpds-c-hoWMuZ" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; max-width: 600px;"><div class="PJLV PJLV-ihSmMVC-css" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="PJLV PJLV-iPJLV-css mb-xxs overrideStyles" data-qa="author-byline" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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display: inline-block; font-size: 1rem;"><span class="wpds-c-cNdzuP" data-qa="attribution-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40);">By </span><a class="wpds-c-cNdzuP wpds-c-cNdzuP-ejzZdU-isLink-true" data-qa="author-name" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/susan-svrluga/?itid=ai_top_svrlugas" rel="author" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); cursor: pointer; text-decoration-color: var(--wpds-colors-gray0); text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-underline-offset: 1px;">Susan Svrluga</a></div></div></span></div></span></div></div><div class="wpds-c-kgabfe wpds-c-kgabfe-ieEDlgV-css" data-testid="timestamp" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray80); font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-subhead); font-size: var(--wpds-fontSizes-087); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-125); margin-bottom: var(--wpds-space-200);"><span class="wpds-c-iKQyrV" data-testid="display-date" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray80); font-size: var(--wpds-fontSizes-087); margin-top: var(--wpds-space-025);">March 1, 2024 at 6:18 p.m. EST</span></div></div></div></header></div><article class="grid-article mb-xxl-ns" data-qa="main" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; grid-column-end: 2; grid-column-start: 1; margin-bottom: 64px;"><div class="" data-qa="lede-art" data-testid="lede-art" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><figure class="overflow-hidden relative hide-for-print center center mb-sm mb-md-ns ml-auto-ns mr-auto-ns grid-mobile-full-bleed" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin: 0px auto 24px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; text-align: center;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="w-100 mw-100 h-auto" height="399" style="box-sizing: border-box; filter: blur(0px); height: auto; line-height: 0; max-width: 100%; transition: filter 0.1s; width: 768.1929321289062px;" width="600"><img alt="" class="w-100 mw-100 h-auto" decoding="async" height="399" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 440px,(max-width: 600px) 691px,(max-width: 768px) 691px,(min-width: 769px) and (max-width: 1023px) 960px,(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1299px) 530px,(min-width: 1300px) and (max-width: 1439px) 691px,(min-width: 1440px) 916px,440px" srcset="https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/PFMYRBAL6QI6ZJ6IMG5XWO7WFA.jpg&w=440 400w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/PFMYRBAL6QI6ZJ6IMG5XWO7WFA.jpg&w=540 540w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/PFMYRBAL6QI6ZJ6IMG5XWO7WFA.jpg&w=691 691w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/PFMYRBAL6QI6ZJ6IMG5XWO7WFA.jpg&w=767 767w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/PFMYRBAL6QI6ZJ6IMG5XWO7WFA.jpg&w=916 916w, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/PFMYRBAL6QI6ZJ6IMG5XWO7WFA.jpg&w=1200 1200w" style="background-size: cover; 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grid-column-start: 2;"><div class="teaser-content" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">The University of Florida announced Friday that it had eliminated jobs and halted contracts focused on diversity, equity and inclusion efforts to comply with a 2023 state law.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">Thirteen full-time positions were eliminated, and administrative appointments were ended for 15 faculty members, officials said.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">The $5 million that the state flagship school in Gainesville had allocated for DEI efforts will be redirected to a faculty recruitment fund, according to a memo from the university’s provost, general counsel and vice president for human resources.</p></div></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">The move was celebrated by some, including Christopher Rufo, a critic of DEI initiatives who is a trustee at New College<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span>of Florida, which <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/03/10/new-college-diversity-officer-fired/?itid=lk_inline_manual_11" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-decoration: none; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">fired its top diversity officer</a> last year. Rufo <a href="https://x.com/realchrisrufo/status/1763637067840626807?s=20" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-decoration: none; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">wrote</a> on social media Friday, “The conservative counter-revolution has begun.”</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><span class="wpds-c-sFUaP wpds-c-sFUaP-jtHNGr-variant-interstitial wpds-c-sFUaP-iPJLV-css hide-for-print" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: var(--wpds-fontSizes-125); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><a data-qa="interstitial-link" data-testid="interstitial-link" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/03/10/new-college-diversity-officer-fired/?itid=lk_interstitial_manual_12" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-style: italic; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-decoration: none; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;">Ousted Florida college diversity leader: ‘I am the first casualty’</a></span></p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">Gov. <a class="contextual_link" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/candidates/ron-desantis-2024/?itid=lk_inline_manual_13" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-decoration: none; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">Ron DeSantis</a> (R) <a href="https://x.com/GovRonDeSantis/status/1763655357581205839?s=20" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-decoration: none; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">wrote </a>on X: “DEI is toxic and has no place in our public universities. I’m glad that Florida was the first state to eliminate DEI and I hope more states follow suit.”</p><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">Florida is not alone in its backlash against<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span>diversity-related initiatives. Lawmakers in other states have <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/09/05/texas-am-university-diversity-sb17/?itid=lk_inline_manual_14" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-decoration: none; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">targeted DEI<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span>programs,</a> some<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/02/20/corporate-diversity-job-cuts/?itid=lk_inline_manual_14" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-decoration: none; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">companies have cut jobs</a> and activists have pushed to eliminate other efforts.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><span class="wpds-c-sFUaP wpds-c-sFUaP-jtHNGr-variant-interstitial wpds-c-sFUaP-iPJLV-css hide-for-print" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: var(--wpds-fontSizes-125); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><a data-qa="interstitial-link" data-testid="interstitial-link" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/02/20/corporate-diversity-job-cuts/?itid=lk_interstitial_manual_15" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-style: italic; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-decoration: none; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;">As DEI gets more divisive, companies are ditching their teams</a></span></p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">Eighty-one bills attacking DEI in higher education<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span>have been filed in 23 states since 2023, according to the <a href="https://www.chronicle.com/article/here-are-the-states-where-lawmakers-are-seeking-to-ban-colleges-dei-efforts?sra=true" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-decoration: none; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">Chronicle of Higher Education</a>.</p><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">Advocates for such programs say they make campuses and workplaces more welcoming, supportive and reflective of society as a whole. Critics say they are divisive and result in expensive bureaucracies.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">“The sad thing is that here we have a university system that has a known problem with maintaining both its faculty and student body of color,” said Kenneth Nunn, an emeritus professor of law at the UF who retired in January, in part because of what he said were political attacks on scholarship and teaching on issues related to race. “They belatedly put a system in place to address some of those questions. And without any information or data about the success of those efforts, the whole enterprise has been dismantled. I think it’s a shame.”</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">There has already been a “brain drain” from the public universities in the state, Nunn said. “This is just going to make that reality worse. It’s going to be harder and harder for the university to fulfill what used to be its mission of providing a proper education for the entire breadth of the citizens of Florida. And it appears that they’re sending the message that they’re not interested in that anymore.”</p><div class="meteredContent grid-center" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 2;"><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">The employees whose positions were cut will receive 12 weeks of pay, per the university<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span>memo, and were encouraged to apply for fast-track consideration of<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span>open positions at UF.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">The memo also said the University of Florida “is — and will always be — unwavering in our commitment to universal human dignity. 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TREADWELL claimed that Commissioner Joseph somehow committed a crime when she called on people to vote to oust pro-developer cat's paws, whose votes for clearcutting projects and against tree protection have changed the face of St. Johns County. Commissioner Joseph dropped her declaratory case against the County after its Answer to her declaratory judgment action indicated it was not going to prosecute her; the federal court dismissal is "without prejudice," meaning that she could refile if necessary. </p><p>But State's Attorney LARIZZA remains a defendant. Why?</p><p>Louche lachrymose RALPH LARIZZA used his silence as both a sword and a shield, asking Senior U.S. District Court Judge Harvey Schlesinger to dismiss her lawsuit as lacking a "case and controversy," stating her "information and belief" about LARIZZA's beliefs on F.S. 104.31 is not enough. </p><p>So, Commissioner Krista Keating Joseph's lawyers have asked the federal court to order LARIZZA to answer three (3) interrogatory questions:</p><p><span style="font-family: CenturySchoolbook; font-size: 13pt;"><b>1. Please state whether you contend that the legal opinion of Raymond Treadwell, Esquire, dated January 8, 2024, correctly states the law with respect to a criminal violation of section 104.31(1)(a), Florida Statutes.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: CenturySchoolbook; font-size: 13pt;"><b>2. Please state whether you contend that a criminal violation of section 104.31(1)(a), Florida Statutes, by a public official requires the element of corruption as stated in Attorney General Opinion 1978-133.</b></span></p><p><b><span style="font-family: CenturySchoolbook; font-size: 13pt;">3. Please state whether you contend that a St. Johns County Commissioner may commit a criminal offense under section 104.31(1) (a), Florida Statutes, by attempting to influence a voter through traditional political speech.</span> </b></p><p>A civil discovery motion hearing is set for <b>March 12, 2024 before the Magistrate Judge Patricia D. Barksdale, at 10:30 AM in Courtroom 5B at the Bryan Simpson Federal Courthouse, 300 North Hogan Street in Jacksonville</b> (named for the late Honorable John Milton Bryan Simpson, the courageous federal judge who ruled against St. Augustine and St. Johns County in civil rights cases, including dismissing some 1000 state court criminal prosecutions against civil rights protesters, whose cases William Kuntsler, et al. removed from local courts). </p><p>If you go, leave your cellular telephone elsewhere -- they're not allowed in federal courthouses unless you're a lawyer or a judge authorizes it.</p><p>From PACER:</p><div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="section" style="background-color: white;"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: CenturySchoolbook; font-size: 13pt;"><b>IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT </b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: CenturySchoolbook; font-size: 13pt;"><b>FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF FLORIDA </b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: CenturySchoolbook; font-size: 13pt;"><b>JACKSONVILLE DIVISION</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: CenturySchoolbook; font-size: 13pt;"><b>KRISTA JOSEPH, St. Johns County Commissioner, </b></span><b style="font-family: CenturySchoolbook; font-size: 17.33333396911621px;"> Case No. 3:24-cv-35-HES-PDB</b></p><p><span style="font-family: CenturySchoolbook; font-size: 13pt;"><b>Plaintiff,<br />v.</b></span></p><p><b style="font-family: CenturySchoolbook; font-size: 13pt;">ST. JOHNS COUNTY BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS; and R.J. LARIZZA, State Attorney for the Seventh Judicial District of Florida,</b></p><p><span style="font-family: CenturySchoolbook; font-size: 13pt;"><b>Defendant.</b><br />/</span></p><p><span style="font-family: CenturySchoolbook; font-size: 13pt;"><b>MOTION FOR JURISDICTIONAL DISCOVERY</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: CenturySchoolbook; font-size: 13pt;">COMES NOW Commissioner Krista Joseph and moves for an order authorizing her to immediately send limited interrogatories to the state attorney, R.J. Larizza, asking whether he contends Commissioner Joseph can be prosecuted for her political speech on the theory set out in the legal opinion of outside counsel to the St. Johns County Board of County Commissioners, and requiring the state attorney to answer such </span><span style="font-family: CenturySchoolbook; font-size: 13pt;">interrogatories within seven days.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: CenturySchoolbook; font-size: 13pt;">The essence of this case is that Commissioner Joseph faces a credible </span><span style="font-family: CenturySchoolbook; font-size: 13pt;">threat of criminal prosecution for anti-incumbent political speech in an upcoming primary election, which threat is sufficient to unconstitutionally</span></p></div></div><img alt="page1image828314800" height="0.647461" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/ab1076cb-ad7e-45a9-831e-5eda8045bbeb" width="216.647461" /> <img alt="page1image828315056" height="0.647461" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/7eaf48ee-08f0-4208-8735-ff84dfc23ed3" width="295.337431" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: CenturySchoolbook; font-size: 13pt;">1</span></p></div></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 2"><div class="section" style="background-color: white;"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="color: blue; font-family: LiberationSans; font-size: 12pt;">Case 3:24-cv-00035-HES-PDB Document 16 Filed 02/22/24 Page 2 of 7 PageID 60</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: CenturySchoolbook; font-size: 13pt;">chill her First Amendment rights. The St. Johns County Board of County Commissioners sought and obtained an opinion of outside legal counsel accusing Commissioner Joseph of violating a criminal statute when she made comments whose purpose, outside counsel found, “was to encourage voting out the Incumbent Commissioners.” Outside counsel’s legal opinion noted the matter could be referred to the state attorney for consideration of criminal charges. The theory of the legal opinion would make Commissioner Joseph criminally liable any time she engaged in anti-incumbent speech in circumstances in which she was identified as holding the position of county commissioner. Commissioner Joseph desires to engage in further anti- incumbent speech in the course of an upcoming primary election. These circumstances present a credible threat of criminal prosecution sufficient to invoke the jurisdiction of this Court under the teaching of Susan B. Anthony List v. Driehaus, 573 U.S. 149 (2014).</span><span style="font-family: CenturySchoolbook; font-size: 9pt; vertical-align: 3pt;">1</span></p><p><span style="font-family: CenturySchoolbook; font-size: 13pt;">The state attorney filed a motion to dismiss essentially arguing that the threat is not credible because Commissioner Joseph does not know</span></p><p><span style="font-family: CenturySchoolbook; font-size: 8pt; vertical-align: 3pt;">1 </span><span style="font-family: CenturySchoolbook; font-size: 12pt;">While it was the St. Johns County Board of County Commissioners—not the state attorney—that initiated the threat of prosecution, that does not detract from the credibility of the threat. “People do not lightly disregard public officers’ thinly veiled threats to institute criminal proceedings against them if they do not come around . . . .” Bantam Books, Inc. v. Sullivan, 372 U.S. 58, 68 (1963); accord Biden v. Knight First Amendment Inst., 141 S. Ct. 1220, 1226 (2021) (Thomas, J., concurring).</span></p></div></div><img alt="page2image828739072" height="0.647461" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/140d9556-073c-4fbc-bf2e-54c1a41ac168" width="111.392861" /> <img alt="page2image828739328" height="0.647461" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/82923419-ecb0-482e-9438-f265aec81336" width="97.912601" /> <img alt="page2image828739648" height="0.500000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/60243c63-d004-4ae6-a11c-bd907cc87c92" width="100.000000" /> <img alt="page2image828739904" height="0.597656" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/eb937876-c8f8-4735-847e-e05cbbeb8867" width="175.164076" /> <img alt="page2image828740288" height="0.597656" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/e6ae2666-fb08-48c8-93d5-4573158000c0" width="36.140656" /> <img alt="page2image828740544" height="0.597656" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/b7c44914-fd7b-48de-8d56-7e4861438044" width="33.263656" /> <img alt="page2image828740864" height="0.597656" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/be4525cc-43b8-489a-a41d-56e1ae3d47f8" width="200.855456" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: CenturySchoolbook; font-size: 13pt;">2</span></p></div></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 3"><div class="section" style="background-color: white;"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="color: blue; font-family: LiberationSans; font-size: 12pt;">Case 3:24-cv-00035-HES-PDB Document 16 Filed 02/22/24 Page 3 of 7 PageID 61</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: CenturySchoolbook; font-size: 13pt;">whether the state attorney agrees with the opinion of outside counsel that Commissioner Joseph can be prosecuted for anti-incumbent speech. As such, the state attorney argued, Commissioner Joseph’s complaint does not present a case or controversy in the constitutional sense. (See Mot. to Dismiss, Doc. 11, at 3.) This is because, according to the state attorney, the complaint does not set out sufficient facts to justify the allegation in paragraph 22 of the complaint. (Id. at 1.) Paragraph 22 alleges, on information and belief, that the state attorney agrees with the legal opinion of outside counsel that Commissioner Joseph can be prosecuted for her political speech. (Compl., Doc. 1, at ¶ 22.) Accordingly, the thrust of the state attorney’s argument is that Commissioner Joseph does not know whether or not the state attorney agrees she can be prosecuted for her political speech.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: CenturySchoolbook; font-size: 13pt;">The state attorney did not say in his motion that he disagrees with the opinion of outside counsel. Indeed, before the state attorney filed his motion, counsel for Commissioner Joseph asked whether the state attorney contends Commissioner Joseph can be prosecuted for political speech under the theory set out in outside counsel’s legal opinion. The state attorney’s counsel declined to give the state attorney’s position on the matter. By leaving his position ambiguous, the state attorney allows the threat of prosecution to continue to hang over Commissioner Joseph and to chill her political speech.</span></p></div></div><img alt="page3image828133248" height="0.647461" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/b4a44951-8433-4d87-af53-aa5b89732d72" width="21.835861" /> <img alt="page3image828179584" height="0.647461" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/3c549ac8-45b1-4b1c-8e93-c5b8f8d69184" width="17.018061" /> <img alt="page3image828179904" height="0.647461" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/4d0ebdf0-1d5d-47b0-bbda-db8abb6eb32a" width="57.224161" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: CenturySchoolbook; font-size: 13pt;">3</span></p></div></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 4"><div class="section" style="background-color: white;"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="color: blue; font-family: LiberationSans; font-size: 12pt;">Case 3:24-cv-00035-HES-PDB Document 16 Filed 02/22/24 Page 4 of 7 PageID 62</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: CenturySchoolbook; font-size: 13pt;">Cf. Susan B. Anthony List, 573 U.S. at 165 (evaluating whether plaintiffs faced credible threat of enforcement and noting government did not disavow enforcement action based on plaintiffs’ intended future political statements).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: CenturySchoolbook; font-size: 13pt;">The state attorney’s motion raises an argument about the power of the Court to hear this case under Article III of the U.S. Constitution. This is an argument that the Court lacks subject matter jurisdiction. See Dermer v. Miami-Dade County, 599 F.3d 1217, 1220–21 (11th Cir. 2010) (“A court . . . lacks subject matter jurisdiction to hear a case if the requirements of Article III of the Constitution are not satisfied.”). Commissioner Joseph agrees there would be no Article III case or controversy—and the Court’s subject matter jurisdiction would be lacking—if the state attorney contends Commissioner Joseph is not subject to prosecution for political speech on the theory set out in outside counsel’s legal opinion. Otherwise, Commissioner Joseph faces a credible threat of prosecution sufficient to chill her anti-incumbent speech, and the Court has subject matter jurisdiction under Susan B. Anthony List v. Driehaus, 573 U.S. 149 (2014).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: CenturySchoolbook; font-size: 13pt;">Accordingly, the Court’s subject matter jurisdiction turns on a factual issue—whether or not the state attorney contends Commissioner Joseph can be prosecuted for political speech. Commissioner Joseph should be given the opportunity to develop that issue through discovery at the outset of this case.</span></p></div></div><img alt="page4image785197104" height="0.647461" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/6d3d7bd6-57ea-4999-8e84-26edfb779d25" width="17.976561" /> <img alt="page4image785197360" height="0.647461" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/b9353f41-456b-41ce-8767-1468f99628e0" width="144.726591" /> <img alt="page4image785094880" height="0.647461" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/c9c98619-a115-4c9a-b987-a8f829b3ba74" width="21.835961" /> <img alt="page4image785095136" height="0.647461" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/9d4f96c8-9c91-4ccb-a210-f0c924c451a1" width="63.171361" /> <img alt="page4image785297600" height="0.647461" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/66f373e9-d11b-4d99-90b3-e952577031b8" width="124.367661" /> <img alt="page4image785297792" height="0.647461" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/93f17d73-5e39-45c8-9665-c571896feaa4" width="152.407261" /> <img alt="page4image784745664" height="0.647461" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/429d4ff0-d62c-46ac-a23e-5e4f70a9b3df" width="56.252931" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: CenturySchoolbook; font-size: 13pt;">4</span></p></div></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 5"><div class="section" style="background-color: white;"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="color: blue; font-family: LiberationSans; font-size: 12pt;">Case 3:24-cv-00035-HES-PDB Document 16 Filed 02/22/24 Page 5 of 7 PageID 63</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: CenturySchoolbook; font-size: 13pt;">See ACLU of Fla., Inc. v. City of Sarasota, 859 F.3d 1337 (11th Cir. 2017) (holding district court erred when it completely denied plaintiff opportunity to conduct jurisdictional discovery); Eaton v. Dorchester Dev., Inc., 692 F.2d 727, 731 (11th Cir. 1982) (holding plaintiff must be given opportunity to develop facts through discovery before case can be dismissed for lack of subject matter jurisdiction).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: CenturySchoolbook; font-size: 13pt;">This factual issue can be resolved with simple interrogatories asking the state attorney to state his position on the matter. Accordingly, Commissioner Joseph should be permitted to propound limited interrogatories to the state attorney asking him to state whether or not he contends Commissioner Joseph can be prosecuted for political speech under the theory set out in the legal opinion of outside counsel. In light of the ongoing chill to Commissioner Joseph’s political speech, the Court should order that the state attorney answer such interrogatories within seven days after being served with them.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: CenturySchoolbook; font-size: 13pt;">WHEREFORE, Commissioner Joseph respectfully prays that the Court permit her immediately to serve the following three interrogatories on State Attorney Larizza, and order State Attorney Larizza to answer such interrogatories within seven days after service.</span></p></div></div><img alt="page5image787364112" height="0.647461" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/5d1d022d-1ba2-4eae-b565-2ce7d9419fcd" width="21.835941" /> <img alt="page5image787364368" height="0.647461" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/f0b22ca0-b656-44ec-910e-a70958287b2d" width="238.941661" /> <img alt="page5image787364688" height="0.647461" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/f1b55d32-5604-4394-870c-660f317ce21d" width="185.809861" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: CenturySchoolbook; font-size: 13pt;">5</span></p></div></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 6"><div class="section" style="background-color: white;"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="color: blue; font-family: LiberationSans; font-size: 12pt;">Case 3:24-cv-00035-HES-PDB Document 16 Filed 02/22/24 Page 6 of 7 PageID 64</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: CenturySchoolbook; font-size: 13pt;">// // // // // // // // //</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: CenturySchoolbook; font-size: 13pt;">1. Please state whether you contend that the legal opinion of Raymond Treadwell, Esquire, dated January 8, 2024, correctly states the law with respect to a criminal violation of section 104.31(1)(a), Florida Statutes.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: CenturySchoolbook; font-size: 13pt;">2. Please state whether you contend that a criminal violation of section 104.31(1)(a), Florida Statutes, by a public official requires the element of corruption as stated in Attorney General Opinion 1978-133.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: CenturySchoolbook; font-size: 13pt;">3. Please state whether you contend that a St. Johns County Commissioner may commit a criminal offense under section 104.31(1) (a), Florida Statutes, by attempting to influence a voter through traditional political speech.</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: CenturySchoolbook; font-size: 13pt;">6</span></p></div></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 7"><div class="section" style="background-color: white;"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="color: blue; font-family: LiberationSans; font-size: 12pt;">Case 3:24-cv-00035-HES-PDB Document 16 Filed 02/22/24 Page 7 of 7 PageID 65</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: CenturySchoolbook; font-size: 13pt;">LOCAL RULE 3.01(g) CERTIFICATION<br />Counsel for Commissioner Joseph has conferred with counsel for State</span></p><p><span style="font-family: CenturySchoolbook; font-size: 13pt;">Attorney Larizza, and the parties do not agree on the resolution of this motion. Counsel for the parties conferred by means of email.</span></p></div></div><img alt="page7image828005328" height="0.647461" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/becf4323-3c66-4958-9d0a-f73d2c4c2b2e" width="246.238261" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: CenturySchoolbook; font-size: 13pt;">DATED: February 22, 2024.</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: CenturySchoolbook; font-size: 13pt;">/s/ W. Bradley Russell<br />W. Bradley Russell<br />Florida Bar No. 29492<br />Russell & Russell, Attorneys at Law, P.A. 6550 St. Augustine Road, Suite 305 Jacksonville, Florida 32217</span></p><p><span style="font-family: CenturySchoolbook; font-size: 13pt;">Tel. 904-527-8813<br />Email: brad@russellandrussell.law</span></p><p><span style="font-family: CenturySchoolbook; font-size: 13pt;">Lead counsel for Commissioner Joseph</span></p></div></div><img alt="page7image827954720" height="0.647461" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/5cd6766b-c50d-4294-a0b0-3132029dbe46" width="252.647461" /> <img alt="page7image827931792" height="0.647461" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/bc2b8aa3-f4c6-4627-b01e-737a050f7ddd" width="166.473561" /></div></div>Ed Slavinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00298486886820876739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25979735.post-19742557632422384842024-03-02T21:24:00.001-08:002024-03-02T21:24:56.059-08:00Ed Slavin February 29, 2024 HUD CIVIL RIGHTS COMPLAINT AGAINST ST. JOHNS COUNTY, FLORIDA BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS<h2 class="wp-block-heading has-text-align-center" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--blue); font-family: "Work Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 40px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px auto 15px; max-width: 900px; padding-top: 40px; text-align: center;"><div class="gdlr-attorney-thumbnail" style="border: 0px rgb(222, 222, 222); margin: 0px 0px 18px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;">Once again, one-party rule has shown itself for what it is -- a developer-driven political machine that wastes our tax dollars, covers up its errors, won't answer questions, and refuses to comply with anti-discrimination laws. One Commissioner, a former Republican Executive Committee Chairman, ROY ALYRE ALAIMO, JR. said to hire this guy because he's his longtime "friend." What's going on here?</div><div class="gdlr-attorney-thumbnail" style="border: 0px rgb(222, 222, 222); margin: 0px 0px 18px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://claylawyers.com/attorney/rich-komando/" style="border: 0px rgb(222, 222, 222); color: #002c5a; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 300ms, 300ms, 300ms; transition-property: color, background-color, opacity; transition: color 300ms, background-color 300ms, opacity 300ms; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image" height="476" sizes="(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" src="http://claylawyers.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/KBG_Headshots_Web_Rich.jpg" srcset="http://claylawyers.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/KBG_Headshots_Web_Rich.jpg 700w, http://claylawyers.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/KBG_Headshots_Web_Rich-300x204.jpg 300w" style="border: 0px rgb(222, 222, 222); height: auto; 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McCain, HUD Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary </span></div><div dir="ltr">Honorable Angela D. Middleton</div><div dir="ltr">Honorable Curtis L. Barnes</div><div dir="ltr">HUD Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity </div><div dir="ltr">451 7th Street, S.W.</div><div dir="ltr">Washington, D.C. 20410</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><blockquote style="color: #26282a;" type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="yiv5273283398ydpe39e71beyiv3352870915ydp1222116eyiv1661735101ydpc87a965fyiv9217069129ydpdd064071yiv9720480948ydp67b96f7ayiv2844153567ydp3abe058yiv4798280772ydpa3d0095yiv2183747247ydpf84b8c31yiv9319559729ydp16a973f2yahoo-style-wrap"><div class="yiv5273283398ydpe39e71beyiv3352870915ydp1222116eyiv1661735101ydpc87a965fyiv9217069129ydpdd064071yiv9720480948ydp67b96f7ayiv2844153567ydp3abe058yiv4798280772ydpa3d0095yiv2183747247ydpf84b8c31yiv9319559729ydp887872ceyahoo_quoted" id="yiv5273283398ydpe39e71beyiv3352870915ydp1222116eyiv1661735101ydpc87a965fyiv9217069129ydpdd064071yiv9720480948ydp67b96f7ayiv2844153567ydp3abe058yiv4798280772ydpa3d0095yiv2183747247ydpf84b8c31yiv9319559729ydp887872ceyahoo_quoted_4585874377"><div id="yiv5273283398ydpe39e71beyiv3352870915ydp1222116eyiv1661735101ydpc87a965fyiv9217069129ydpdd064071yiv9720480948ydp67b96f7ayiv2844153567ydp3abe058yiv4798280772ydpa3d0095yiv2183747247ydpf84b8c31yiv9319559729ydp887872ceyiv3462979117"><div class="yiv5273283398ydpe39e71beyiv3352870915ydp1222116eyiv1661735101ydpc87a965fyiv9217069129ydpdd064071yiv9720480948ydp67b96f7ayiv2844153567ydp3abe058yiv4798280772ydpa3d0095yiv2183747247ydpf84b8c31yiv9319559729ydp887872ceyiv3462979117ydp76a3b246yahoo-style-wrap"><div class="yiv5273283398ydpe39e71beyiv3352870915ydp1222116eyiv1661735101ydpc87a965fyiv9217069129ydpdd064071yiv9720480948ydp67b96f7ayiv2844153567ydp3abe058yiv4798280772ydpa3d0095yiv2183747247ydpf84b8c31yiv9319559729ydp887872ceyiv3462979117ydp76a3b246signature"><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>via e-mail </i></b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;"><br /></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><div><span style="background-color: inherit; font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;">Dear Secretary Fudge, Inspector General Davis, Ms. McCain, Ms. Middleton and Mr. Barnes: </span><br /></div><div><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">1. Would you please be so kind as to amend the January 23, 2023 HUD Title VI and Fair Housing Act complaint to charge Respondent St. Johns County and Commissioners with additional overt acts of discrimination concerning employment of the County Attorney? As US DOJ explains: "<span style="color: #444444;">Title VI, 42 U.S.C. § 2000d et seq., was enacted as part of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964. It prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, and national origin in programs and activities receiving federal financial assistance. As President John F. Kennedy said in 1963:</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #444444;"><i><b>Simple justice requires that public funds, to which all taxpayers of all races [colors, and national origins] contribute, not be spent in any fashion which encourages, entrenches, subsidizes or results in racial [color or national origin] discrimination.</b></i></span></span></p><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">2. The public interest urgently requires prioritizing HUD's pending civil rights investigation. This complaint alleges continuing violations and establishes Respondent SJC's "massive resistance" to civil rights laws against employment discrimination. HUD is already aware of Respondent's refusal of HUD's offer to conciliate concerning HUD's Title VI and Fair Housing Act investigation of my January 23, 2023 complaint, Respondent's County Attorney, David Michael Migut, with two (2) day's notice resigned abruptly without explanation.</span></div><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">3. Respondent St. Johns County Commissioners voted February 6 & 20, 2024 4-1 to hire a non-resident criminal defense lawyer and lawyer for local governments, one RICHARD CHRISTIAN KOMANDO, as "Interim County Attorney" and "General Counsel." (GC is a new title not previously used by by prior SJC County Attorneys.) </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">3. No job applications were sought. Respondent RICHARD CHRISTIAN KOMANDO got the job because of political connections and friendship with the former St. Johns County Republican Executive Committee Chair, SJC BoCC Vice Chair, Respondent ROY ALYRE ALAIMO, JR. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">4. No job application was filed. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">5. No other candidates were considered, including the Assistant County Attorneys, three of the five of whom attended the meeting, insulted by not even being asked to opine about their own future as County employees. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">6. No resume or<i> c.v.</i> was provided.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">7. The illegal discriminatory February 6, 2024 vote took place without an agenda item or proper public notice. This violates federal law and the reasonable expectations of probity for a fast-growing County that is not only a federal funds recipient, but one with a long history of discrimination. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. called St. Johns County "the most lawless" place in America.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">8. SJC BoCC Vice Chair ROY ALYRE ALAIMO, JR. stated in his Commissioner Comments at the very end of the February 6, 2024 meeting that RICHARD KOMANDO was a longtime friend of his, with four out of five Commissioners voting to hire KOMANDO, whose contract was approved at the February 20, 2024 meeting.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">9. While the Respondent County Commissioners' proposed hiring of Respondent KOMANDO was on the February 20, 2024 agenda, the contract was not provided in advance and was not written until February 19, 2024, a federal holiday (President's Day), and it was not posted on the County's website.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">10. Respondent ALAIMO and three other Commissioners voted to move the KOMANDO contract earlier in the February 20 agenda, several hours before it would have otherwise been discussed.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">11. Respondent ALAIMO and Commissioners never provided a conflicts check or any documents on the identity of KOMANDO's other clients.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">12. No job vacancy advertisement was ever placed with the <i>Florida Bar Journal</i>, or elsewhere, seeking applicants for the Interim County Attorney and General Counsel job.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">13. No women, people of color or LGBTQ people were considered or discussed. Not one.</span></p><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">14. Commissioners did not discuss in the 4-1 majority acknowledged citizens' concerns about word-of-mouth hiring and employment discrimination. No legal advice was provided. The faction of four Commissioners voting to hire Respondent KOMANDO as County Attorney and General Counsel were Respondents ISAAC HENRY DEAN, a lawyer with 42 years of Florida government management experience, who oddly stayed silent in the midst of yet another act of invidious discrimination by SJC BoCC; SJC BoCC Vice Chair ROY ALYRE ALAIMO, JR., owner of "ALAIMO STRATEGIES"; SARA ARNOLD, Chair; and CHRISTIAN WHITEHURST, past Chair (whose overt acts contaminated County deliberations on a Public Housing Authority in January 2023) (see my first complaint).</span></div><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">15. None of the four (4) County Commissioners<i> in quo</i> discussed the pending HUD investigation of St. Johns County under the 1964 Civil Rights Act, Title VI, and the Fair Housing Act.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">16. At the February 20, 2024 SJC BoCC meeting, Respondent Commissioner CHRISTIAN WHITEHURST once again chilled free speech rights, when he made <i>ad hominem </i>remarks about the citizens who testified in favor of open hiring procedures. Commissioners WHITEHURST, ALAIMO and ARNOLD literally laughed at public concerns. <span style="color: #26282a;"> (L</span><span style="color: #26282a;">aughing was around 5:19:00). </span>https://stjohnscountyfl.new.swagit.com/videos/297810 This is not the first time immature WHITEHURST & Co. scorned public participation, as on the Public Housing Authority.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">17. Respondent SJC BoCC Vice Chair ROY ALYRE ALAIMO, Jr., made the discriminatory and illegal SJC BoCC motion to hire his own longtime "friend," Respondent<i> de facto</i> County Attorney KOMANDO. Commissioners chose to flout anti-discrimination laws because they wanted a team player, from their extremist political faction, which opposes anti-discrimination laws. B<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="color: #1d2129; white-space: pre-wrap;">eing a "team player" is not a <span style="font-style: italic;">bona fide</span> occupational qualification in hiring a County Attorney. </span></span><span style="color: #222222;">No "team players" are desired or required here. </span><span style="color: #222222;">"Team player" is freighted with the speech-chilling implication that one is willing to "go along to get along," say what management wants to hear, and do what one is told by managers, no matter what the ethics or legality of the situation. In the political corruption case of </span><span style="color: #222222; font-style: italic;">United States v. Salvatti</span><span style="color: #222222;">, 451 F.Supp. 195, 197-98 (E.D. Pa. 1978), one witness testified that "when she complained to the Mayor about Mr. Carroll's pressure, and advised him that the proposed payment to the Sylks would be totally improper and probably illegal, the Mayor chided her for </span><b style="color: #222222;">not being a team player</b><span style="color: #222222;">." </span><span style="color: #222222; font-style: italic;">See also Fitzgerald v. Seamans,</span><span style="color: #222222;"> 384 F.Supp. 688,697n7 (D.D.C. 1974), </span><span style="color: #222222; font-style: italic;">affirmed,</span><span style="color: #222222;"> 553 F.2d 220, 224 (D.C. Cir. 1977),</span><span style="color: #222222; font-style: italic;"> reversed, Harlow v. Fitzgerald</span><span style="color: #222222;">, 457 U.S. 800 (1982);<span style="font-style: italic;"> Nixon v. Fitzgerald,</span> 457 U.S. 731 (1982) (remarks of President Nixon et al. on need to fire heroic Department of Defense whistleblower A. Ernest Fitzgerald after he testified truthfully before Congress on C-5A transport cost overruns, with Nixon saying Mr. Fitzgerald was "not a team player"); </span><span style="color: #222222; font-style: italic;">Broderick v. Ruder,</span><span style="color: #222222;"> 685 F.Supp. 1269 (D.D.C. 1988)(sexual harassment at Securities and Exchange Commission)</span><span style="color: #222222; font-style: italic;">; Tomsic v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co,</span><span style="color: #222222;"> 85 F.3d 1472, 1474 (10th Cir. 1996); </span><span style="color: #222222; font-style: italic;">Geddes v. Benefits Review Board</span><span style="color: #222222;">, 735 F.2d 1412, 1416, 1420 (D.C. Cir. 1984) (Washington Metropolitan Transportation Authority considered workers' compensation claimant not a "team player"); </span><span style="color: #222222; font-style: italic;">Davis v. California,</span><span style="color: #222222;"> 1996 WL 271001 (E.D. Cal.1996); </span><span style="color: #222222; font-style: italic;">Schloesser v. Kansas Dept. of Health & Environment, </span><span style="color: #222222;">766 F.Supp. 984 (D. Kansas 1991); </span><span style="color: #222222;">Stradford v. Rockwell International</span><span style="color: #222222;">, 48 Fair Empl.Prac.Cas. (BNA) 697, 49 Empl. Prac. Dec. P 38,828,1988 WL 159939 (S.D.Ohio); Seymour M. Hersh, "Annals of National Security: The Intelligence Gap -- How the digital age left our spies out in the cold," </span><span style="color: #222222; font-style: italic;">The New Yorker, </span><span style="color: #222222;">December 6, 1999 at 58, 62.</span> </span></p><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: georgia;">18. Respondent SJC Vice Chair ALAIMO brought up hiring his own "friend" KOMANDO as County Attorney -- a non-resident, non-applicant Republican lawyer -- without placing the item on an agenda, and without prior Sunshine law notice, bringing it up during Commissioner Comments at the end of the February 6, 2024 meeting meeting. Respondents' discriminatory "Stealth" hiring decision was contrary to the genius of a free people. As Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan said, "Secrecy is for losers, for people who don't appreciate the value of the information." Never elected to anything, appointed by his ex-boss Governor DeSANTIS, Commissioner ROY ALYRE ALAIMO, JR. flaunted his authoritarianism, proposing to hire his "friend" without proper Sunshine notice. Respondent's' shocking February 6, 2024 vote set the stage for the February 20, 2024 vote, presenting a<i> fait accompli.</i> Nothing the public said on February 20, 2024 would change their closed minds, but Commissioners used the February 20, 2024 as an opportunity to revel in their one-party control, with three County Commissioners laughing at citizen concerns, for some 45 seconds after Ms. Nicole Crosby spoke. L<span style="color: #26282a;">aughing was around 5:19:00.). </span></span><a href="https://stjohnscountyfl.new.swagit.com/videos/297810" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #196ad4;" target="_blank">https://stjohnscountyfl.new.swagit.com/videos/297810</a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: georgia;">19. The RICHARD CHRISTIAN KOMANDO County Attorney and General Counsel hiring item came back for Commissioners to discuss February 20, 2024, without any conflicts check by SJC BoCC. No client list was ever provided by Respondent RICHARD KOMANDO to Commissioners. The County Attorney's office remained silent in the face of this flummery. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: georgia; font-size: 13.199999809265137px;">"</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0.20000000298023224px;">The privileged communication may be a shield in defense as to crimes already committed, but it cannot be used as a sword or weapon of offense to enable persons to carry out contemplated crimes against society. <b>The law does not make a law office a nest of vipers in which to hatch out frauds and perjuries." </b><i>G</i></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0.20000000298023224px;"><span style="color: #555555;"><i>ebhardt v. United Railways Co., </i>220 S.W. 677 (Mo. 1920). </span></span></div><div><span style="color: #222222; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0.20000000298023224px;"><span style="color: #555555;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">20. The RICHARD CHRISTIAN KOMANDO hiring item was noticed on the published agenda as item 12 on the February 20, 2024 meeting.</span></div><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">21. Without giving a reason, Respondent Commissioner ALAIMO asked Commissioners at the beginning of the February 20 meeting to rearrange the agenda: they voted unanimously to move item 12 to item 3A. This meant people relying on the published agenda could not testify for or against the hiring of ALAIMO's friend. (Overdevelopment has clogged St. Johns County roads, to where it may now take an hour to drive to the County Administration Building/) </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">22. This gaming the system has violated the rules and norms of SJC BoCC, and showed Respondent's intent to avoid public and press scrutiny and deprive the working public of an opportunity to be heard. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">23. This is not the first time that SJC BoCC has made last-minute schedule changes to suit the demands of, and to benefit overdevelopment and developers, including developer-Senator TRAVIS JAMES HUTSON.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">24. Part of a small circle of self-serving political friends and political allies, Respondents ALAIMO and KOMANDO are both extremist Republican appointees of Florida Governor RONALD DION DeSANTIS. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">25. Respondent RICHARD KOMANDO chairs the St. Johns River State College Board of Trustees, and was appoointed to the political patronage position by Florida Gov. RONALD DION DeSANTIS IN 2021.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">26. Respondent KOMANDO's law firm is "BRADLEY, GALLAGHER & KOMANDO" (BGK). BGK'S managing partner is none other than ROBERT BRADLEY, is a former Republican State Senator, whose wife and fellow BRADLEY law firm employee, JENNIFER BRADLEY is currently a Republican State Senator. NONE of these associations were shared with Commissioners who approved hiring Respondent Vice Chair ROY ALYRE ALAIMO, JR.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">27. ROBERT BRADLEY is a DeSANTIS appointee and chairs the St. Johns River Water Management District, of which St. Johns County Commissioner I. Henry Dean was longtime Executive Director. ROB BRADLEY represents both corporations and businesses, and his website states he "<span style="color: #444444;">leads a team that serves as general counsel to the Town of Orange Park, the City of Keystone Heights, The Crossings Community Development District (Eagle Harbor), the City of Atlantic Beach and Baker County." </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #444444;">28. Curiously, former Senator ROB BRADLEY's law firm page states he is still a Senator, four (4) years after he left office, a possible "badge of fraud" and a possible "unfair and deceptive trade practice," stating <i>inter alia</i>"</span><span style="color: #444444;">Rob Bradley is Board Certified by the Florida Bar as an Expert in City, County and Local Government Law. He <b><i><u>is</u></i></b> also a Florida Senator representing District 5, which includes all of Clay, Bradford, Union, Baker, Columbia, Suwanee, Lafayette, Gilchrist, Dixie, Levy [C]ounty, and part of Marion [C]ounty." </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #444444;">29. Respondents' naked political patronage hiring of their longtime Republican "friend" as SJC Interim County Attorney and General Counsel violates Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and violates the County's fiduciary duty to HUD and to federal and Florida taxpayers. </span><span style="color: #444444;"> <i> See, e.g., </i></span><i style="color: #26282a; outline: none;">See O'Hare Truck Service v. City of Northlake, </i><span style="color: #26282a;">518 U.S. 712 (1996); </span><i style="color: #26282a; outline: none;">Rutan v. Republican Party of Illinois</i><span style="color: #26282a;">, 497 U.S. 1050 (1990). </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #26282a;">30. Federal antitrust laws since 1890 have barred "every contact, combination and conspiracy in restraint of trade." 15 U.S.C. 1, et seq, Query: am I correct in inferring that there is no Sherman Act or Clayton Act antitrust immunity in federal or Florida law for Respondents' rogue anti-competitive conduct in inking a $15,000+/month no-bid contact for legal services, plus $250/hour for special services, for which no one but KOMANDO was considered.<i> See Community </i></span><i>Communications Co. v. City of Boulder, </i>455 U.S. 40, <span style="vertical-align: 1pt;">43-57 (1982); </span><i>Goldfarb v. Virginia State </i><i>Bar, </i>421 <span style="vertical-align: -1pt;">U.S. </span><span style="vertical-align: 1pt;">773 (1975).</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #26282a;">31. Respondent's hiring of KOMANDO is freighted with possible violations of Florida law, including our Sunshine and Open Records laws, which 83% of Florida voters supported in 1992 by enacting Article I, Section 24 of our Florida Constitution (3.8 million) votes. It also raises issues under our Florida Constitution prohibition of dual officeholding. <i>See</i> </span>Article II, section 5(a), Florida Constitution: Attorney General Opinions 69-2 (chief of police); 70-13 (city attorney).</span></p><p><span style="color: #26282a; font-family: georgia;">32. Thomas Jefferson helped write the Tennessee Constitution, which since 1796 has stated that "government being instituted for the common benefit, the doctrine of nonresistance against arbitrary power and oppression is absurd, slavish, and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind." </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">33. ALAIMO has a reputation for dominating SJC REC meetings; twice he was the subject of a vote of "no confidence" by his own REC members.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">34. This is not the first time that Respondent SJC has discriminated in hiring a top official, using word of mouth without a background check. On November 19, 2019, SJC hired HUNTER SINCLAIR CONRAD as County Administrator after firing Administrator MICHAEL DAVID WANCHICK. No job application. No background investigation. CONRAD encumbered the position until he quit before he was fired on June 29, 2023. The incurious Commissioners hired CONRAD temporarily, then permanently, then renewed his contact with a pay raise, each time unanimously. In a 2019 federal grand jury indictment in Chicago, CONRAD was an unindicted co-conspirator, accused of taking $8000 in campaign contributions intended as a bribe by DONALD DONAGHER JR. and PENN CREDIT CORP., government contractors for collections of unpaid fines and fees. CONRAD twice told me during annual budget workshops, "I don't have to answer your questions. I work for the Board of County Commissioners."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">35. Entrenched one-party rule has resulted in Respondent St. Johns County Commissioners blocking </span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> any progress on resolving civil rights issues raised in my January 23, 2023 complaint. Refusing HUD's offer of conciliation, they have manifested what the NLRB calls "Boulwareism," a bad faith haughty refusal to conciliate<b>.* </b> Not one of the five Commissioners responded to my February 21, 2024 text messages requesting a call back.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">36. Hiring KOMANDO was an overt of political patronage and illegal discrimination in violation of federal law. Please commence a suspension and debarment investigation under Title VI. Please refer your findings to the Department of Justice Civil Rights and Criminal Divisions.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Let justice be done, at last.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Thank you.</span></p><div><div class="yiv5273283398ydp13e89cbayiv2183747247ydpf84b8c31yiv9319559729ydp887872ceyiv3462979117ydp76a3b246signature"><div style="color: #26282a; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">With kindest regards, I am,</span><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Sincerely yours,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Ed Slavin</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">www.edslavin.com</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">http://www.cleanupcityofstaugustine.blogspot.com<br clear="none" /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">(904) 377-4998</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div></div></div></div><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #26282a; outline: none;"><span style="background-color: inherit; outline: none;">* </span></span><span style="color: #26282a; outline: none;">The legal term "Boulwareism" is </span><span style="color: #26282a; outline: none;">named after General Electric's arrogant anti-labor Vice President for Labor Relations, who refused to engage in collective bargaining in good faith -- the name of Lemuel Ricketts Boulware is now forever enshrined in contract and labor law. </span><i style="color: #26282a; outline: none;"> See General Electric Co.,</i><span style="color: #26282a; outline: none;"> 150 NLRB 192, 194-95, 57 LRRM 1491 (1964), <i style="outline: none;">enforced ,</i> 418 F.2d 736, 756-57 (2d Cir. 1969), </span><i style="color: #26282a; outline: none;"> cert. denied, </i><span style="color: #26282a; outline: none;"> 397 U.S. 965, 90 S.Ct. 995, 25 L.Ed.2d 257 (1970). </span></span></p></div></div><blockquote style="color: #26282a;" type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="yiv5273283398ydpe39e71beyiv3352870915ydp1222116eyiv1661735101ydpc87a965fyiv9217069129ydpdd064071yiv9720480948ydp67b96f7ayiv2844153567ydp3abe058yiv4798280772ydpa3d0095yiv2183747247ydpf84b8c31yiv9319559729ydp16a973f2yahoo-style-wrap"><div class="yiv5273283398ydpe39e71beyiv3352870915ydp1222116eyiv1661735101ydpc87a965fyiv9217069129ydpdd064071yiv9720480948ydp67b96f7ayiv2844153567ydp3abe058yiv4798280772ydpa3d0095yiv2183747247ydpf84b8c31yiv9319559729ydp887872ceyahoo_quoted" id="yiv5273283398ydpe39e71beyiv3352870915ydp1222116eyiv1661735101ydpc87a965fyiv9217069129ydpdd064071yiv9720480948ydp67b96f7ayiv2844153567ydp3abe058yiv4798280772ydpa3d0095yiv2183747247ydpf84b8c31yiv9319559729ydp887872ceyahoo_quoted_4585874377"><div id="yiv5273283398ydpe39e71beyiv3352870915ydp1222116eyiv1661735101ydpc87a965fyiv9217069129ydpdd064071yiv9720480948ydp67b96f7ayiv2844153567ydp3abe058yiv4798280772ydpa3d0095yiv2183747247ydpf84b8c31yiv9319559729ydp887872ceyiv3462979117"><div class="yiv5273283398ydpe39e71beyiv3352870915ydp1222116eyiv1661735101ydpc87a965fyiv9217069129ydpdd064071yiv9720480948ydp67b96f7ayiv2844153567ydp3abe058yiv4798280772ydpa3d0095yiv2183747247ydpf84b8c31yiv9319559729ydp887872ceyiv3462979117ydp76a3b246yahoo-style-wrap"><div class="yiv5273283398ydpe39e71beyiv3352870915ydp1222116eyiv1661735101ydpc87a965fyiv9217069129ydpdd064071yiv9720480948ydp67b96f7ayiv2844153567ydp3abe058yiv4798280772ydpa3d0095yiv2183747247ydpf84b8c31yiv9319559729ydp887872ceyiv3462979117ydp76a3b246signature"><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">On Monday, January 23, 2023, 09:28:46 AM EST, Ed Slavin <easlavin@aol.com> wrote: </div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><br clear="none" /></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><div id="yiv5273283398ydpe39e71beyiv3352870915ydp1222116eyiv1661735101ydpc87a965fyiv9217069129ydpdd064071yiv9720480948ydp67b96f7ayiv2844153567ydp3abe058yiv4798280772ydpa3d0095yiv2183747247ydpf84b8c31yiv9319559729ydpb62222beyiv9766639484"><div class="yiv5273283398ydpe39e71beyiv3352870915ydp1222116eyiv1661735101ydpc87a965fyiv9217069129ydpdd064071yiv9720480948ydp67b96f7ayiv2844153567ydp3abe058yiv4798280772ydpa3d0095yiv2183747247ydpf84b8c31yiv9319559729ydpb62222beyiv9766639484ydpfb32c244yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; 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font-size: x-large;">Honorable Marcia Fudge</span><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: large;">Secretary, U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development</span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: large;"><br clear="none" /></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: large;">Honorable Rae Oliver Davis, </span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: large;">HUD Inspector General</span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: large;"><br clear="none" /></span></div><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: large;">Honorable Demetria L. McCain, </span></div><div><span style="font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: large;">Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary </span></div><div><span style="font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: large;">HUD Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity</span></div><div><span style="font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: large;">451 7th Street, S.W.</span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: large;">Washington, D.C. 20410</span></div></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="background-color: #f8f9f4; color: #171e24;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: large;"><b><i><br clear="none" /></i></b></span></span></div><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif;"><br clear="none" /></span></div><div dir="ltr"><b><span style="font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: x-large;">Request for HUD Civil Rights Investigation of St. Johns County, Florida </span></b></div></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: large;"><br clear="none" /></span></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: large;">Dear Ms. McCain, Secretary Fudge and Inspector General Davis:</span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: large;"><br clear="none" /></span></div><div dir="ltr"><ol dir="ltr"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: x-large;">On January 17, 2023, our St. Johns County Board of County Commissioners voted 3-2 against starting a Public Housing Authority (PHA) here in Florida's fastest-growing County, one of only three (3) Florida counties without a PHA. The vote is contaminated by bigoted remarks by the Commission Chair. Please investigate. </span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: large;">The Chairman of the St. Johns County Commission, Mr. CHRISTIAN WHITEHURST, stated he did not want to help "the kind of people" who had HUD Section 8 vouchers<i>. See</i> County Commission video at <a href="https://stjohnscountyfl.new.swagit.com/videos/205995" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="color: #196ad4;" target="_blank">https://stjohnscountyfl.new.swagit.com/videos/205995</a> (Item 9);<i> see also</i> Travis Gibson, <i>"<span style="color: #0f172a;">St. Johns County commissioner votes down public housing authority proposal, says it could change character of county," </span></i><span style="color: #0f172a;">Commissioners voted 3-2 against moving forward with the creating of a public housing authority, WJXT, News4Jax (January 19, 2023), </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GU-S8xPxTA8" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="color: #196ad4;" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GU-S8xPxTA8</a> , and <a href="https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/2023/01/19/st-johns-county-commissioner-votes-down-public-housing-authority-says-it-could-change-character-of-county/?fbclid=IwAR09LOOB-lxB6KdVrrO697St8u163d38qM1t1ehjVNDnFM0xNjkJtvXaYrc" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="color: #196ad4;" target="_blank">https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/2023/01/19/st-johns-county-commissioner-votes-down-public-housing-authority-says-it-could-change-character-of-county/?fbclid=IwAR09LOOB-lxB6KdVrrO697St8u163d38qM1t1ehjVNDnFM0xNjkJtvXaYrc</a></span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: large;">Chairman WHITEHURST's revealing remark is a confession. It evidences prohibited discrimination on the basis of race and national origin. Some 65% of voucher holders are Black or Hispanic, compared to 40% of all renters. <a href="https://themreport.com/news/data/11-23-2022/housing-choice-vouchers" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="color: #196ad4;" target="_blank">https://themreport.com/news/data/11-23-2022/housing-choice-vouchers</a></span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: large;">Courts in discrimination cases look at effects and not intent because "clever men can hide their motivation." <i>United States v. City of Black Jack, Missouri, </i>508 F.2d 1179 (8th Cir. 1974). </span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: large;">Here, the Chairman of St. Johns County Commission was not "clever" at all -- he confessed to his motivation. </span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: large;">St. Johns County was described by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as the "most lawless" place in America, a place where KKK openly and notoriously ran our governments and law enforcement, requiring remedies from federal courts. <br clear="none" /></span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: large;">In 2008, the then-Chairman of the St. Johns County Board of County Commissioners Ben Rich, Sr., candidly told <i>Folio Weekly</i> that St. Johns County was "one of the last bastions of the KKK."</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: large;">Chairman WHITEHURST's open, notorious, overtly racist remarks contaminated the vote on January 17, 2023. </span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: large;">Just like the perjury that "tainted" the evidence and "polluted" the reservoir of justice i<i>n Mesarosh v. United States</i>, 352 U.S. 1 (1956), our St. Johns County Commission's deliberations on a Public Housing Authority were totally "tainted," "polluted," and "contaminated" by Chairman WHITEHURST's racist remarks. </span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #222222;">Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote for the unanimous Supreme Court in reversing a decision wrought by perjury, </span><i style="color: #222222;">Mesarosh v. United States</i><span style="color: #222222;">, 352 U.S. 1, 14 (1956), perjury "poisoned the water in the reservoir." Americans expect "to see that the waters of justice are not polluted. Pollution having taken place here, the condition should be remedied at the earliest opportunity. " </span><i style="color: #222222;">Id.</i><br clear="none" /></span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: large;">Please investigate the outrageous, intentional and invidious refusal of St. Johns County Commissioners to proceed with work on a Public Housing Authority in the midst of an affordable housing crisis. </span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: large;">Please commence a civil, criminal and administrative investigation, and a compliance audit, pursuant to the 1871 Civil Rights Act (Ku Klux Klan Act), the Fair Housing Act, Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Inspector General Act. Please refer this complaint to the HUD Inspector General, Ms. Davis. </span></li></ol><span style="font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: large;"><br clear="none" /></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: large;">Thank you for all that you do.</span></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: large;"><br clear="none" /></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: large;">With kindest regards, I am,<br clear="none" /></span></div></div></div><div class="yiv5273283398ydpe39e71beyiv3352870915ydp1222116eyiv1661735101ydpc87a965fyiv9217069129ydpdd064071yiv9720480948ydp67b96f7ayiv2844153567ydp3abe058yiv4798280772ydpa3d0095yiv2183747247ydpf84b8c31yiv9319559729ydpb62222beyiv9766639484ydpfb32c244yiv7778760671ydp4eb67ff2yiv1525354215ydpd873e762yiv9138105926ydpd74ab3e6yiv9549326673ydpb4368941yiv0798842298ydp6cc30cfdsignature"><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><div><span style="font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: large;">Sincerely yours,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: large;">Ed Slavin</span></div><div><span style="font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: large;">www.edslavin.com</span></div><div><span style="font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.cleanupcityofstaugustine.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="color: #196ad4;" target="_blank">http://www.cleanupcityofstaugustine.blogspot.com</a><br clear="none" /></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: large;">Box 3084</span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: large;">St. Augustine, Florida 32085-3084</span></div><div><span style="font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: large;">(904) 377-4998</span></div><div><span style="font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: large;"> </span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: large;">c: Honorable Kristen Clarke, </span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: large;">Assistant Attorney General </span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></li></ul></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p><br /></p>Ed Slavinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00298486886820876739noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25979735.post-5002655701649001382024-03-02T21:24:00.000-08:002024-03-02T21:24:28.097-08:00Who is RICHARD CHRISTIAN KOMANDO, "Interim County Attorney," hired on 4-1 vote February 20, 2024? No application. No search. No. résumé. No transparency. No class. <p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">St. Johns County is going KOMANDO.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">SJC Commission hired a putative "Interim County Attorney," RICHARD CHRISTIAN KOMANDO, calling him and his law firm SJC's "General Counsel."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">No application. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">No search. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">No <span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122;">résumé. </span> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">$15,000 a month salary. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">4-1 vote. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Vice Chair ROY ALYRE ALAIMO, JR. made the suggestion in the wake of the secretive departure of County Attorney DAVID MIGUT, said to be with two (2) days' notice.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">ALAIMO is the former Chair of the St. Johns County Republican Executive Committee. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">ALAIMO's indecent proposal was illegal. Political patronage? It's illegal. The Supreme Court has repeatedly said so. </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #26282a; font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42);">Such improper, illegal, unseemly political patronage hiring decisions are a pattern and practice of St. Johns County Board of County Commissioners, as in the illegal hiring of HUNTER SINCLAIR CONRAD as County Administrator. These haughty hiring decisions have a chilling effect on public participation in our County government. Such overbearing hiring decisions are not only illegal, but they show contempt for democratic values in our republic. These questions are beneath the dignity of a free people -- utterly unAmerican. </span></span></span><i style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; outline: none;">See O'Hare Truck Service v. City of Northlake, </i><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif;">518 U.S. 712 (1996); </span><i style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; outline: none;">Rutan v. Republican Party of Illinois</i><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif;">, 497 U.S. 1050 (1990). </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif;">Thomas Jefferson helped [write] the Tennessee Constitution, which since 1796 has stated that "government being instituted for the common benefit, the doctrine of nonresistance against arbitrary power and oppression is absurd, slavish, and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind."</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Political patronage and race and sex discrimination by relying on word-of-mouth recruitment, hiring a Commissioner's friend and Republican, failing to ask for applications or even consider any of six County Attorney office lawyers?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Shallow discussion. <i>De minimis,</i> or <i>de micromis?</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><i>One-party Dull Republican government at its worst in Flori-DUH?</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><i>Business as Usual </i>in corrupt St. Johns County amidst one-party Republican maladministration?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">RICHARD CHRISTIAN KOMANDO is a 2021 Governor DeSANTIS appointee to t<a href="https://www.flgov.com/2021/03/26/governor-ron-desantis-appoints-richard-komando-to-the-st-johns-river-state-college-district-board-of-trustees/" rel="bookmark" style="border: 0px; color: black; letter-spacing: -0.02em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Permanent Link to Governor Ron DeSantis Appoints Richard Komando to the St. Johns River State College District Board of Trustees">he St. Johns River State College District Board of Trustees</a>. He is now Chairman.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Bigoted ROY ALYRE ALAIMO, JR., who was never elected to any public office, but duked into the job by his ex-boss, Governor RONALD DION DeSANTS. He in turn duked KOMANDO into then job of "Interim County Attorney."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><i>RICHARD CHRISTIAN KOMANDO is the Chair of the Board of Trustees of St. Johns River State College. KOMANDO is a longtime friend of Commissioner ALAIMO, who has repeatedly admitted this fact in his whiny sales pitch.</i> Seems to be the only reason Commissioners were given for hiring KOMANDO.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">KOMANDO is a criminal defense lawyer. Given the pervasive nature of criminaloid behavior by developers in St. Johns County, perhaps their cat's paws believed having an in-house criminal defense lawyer was helpful, at $15,000/month.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b>There were no client lists disclosed.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b>There were no conflicts checks documents disclosed. </b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">KOMANDO ruled on his own case. That dawg won't hunt. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;">Conflicts of interest must be scrupulously guarded against. </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-style: italic;">See, e.g., United States v. Mississippi Valley Generating Co.</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;">, 364 U.S. 520, 548 (1961)("the 'Dixon-Yates' case," involving TVA rivals' conflicts of interest in a proposed Memphis coal-fired powerplant), </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-style: italic;">citing</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;"> Matthew 6:24 -- "no [person] can serve two masters," holding that laws and rules preventing conflicts of interest are aimed "not only at dishonor but at conduct that tempts dishonor." All conflict of interest laws are based upon Matthew 6:24 ("A man cannot serve two masters"), which the unanimous Supreme Court decision by Chief Justice Earl Warren deemed to be both a "moral principle" and a "maxim which is especially pertinent if one of the masters happens to be economic self-interest."</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #1d2129; white-space: pre-wrap;">James Madison wrote in <span style="font-style: italic;">The Federalist</span> No. 10: </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #1d2129; white-space: pre-wrap;">"No [person] is allowed to be a judge in [his/her] own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment, and, not improbably, corrupt his integrity. With equal, nay with greater reason, a body of men are unfit to be both judges and parties at the same time . . . ."</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #1d2129; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Supreme Court held in </span><i style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #1d2129; white-space: pre-wrap;">In re Murchison</i><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #1d2129; white-space: pre-wrap;">, 349 U.S. 133, 136 (1955) (Black, J.), "[O]ur system of law has always endeavored to prevent even the probability of unfairness. To this end </span><b style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #1d2129; white-space: pre-wrap;">no man can be a judge in his own case and no man is permitted to try cases where he has an interest in the outcome."</b><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #1d2129; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><i style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #1d2129; white-space: pre-wrap;">See also </i><i style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #1d2129; white-space: pre-wrap;">TWA v. Civil Aeronautics Board</i><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #1d2129; white-space: pre-wrap;">, 102</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; white-space: pre-wrap;"> U.S. App. </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #1d2129; white-space: pre-wrap;">D.C. 391, 392, 254 F.2d 90, 91 (1958). </span><i style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #1d2129; white-space: pre-wrap;">Spencer v. Lapsley</i><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #1d2129; white-space: pre-wrap;">, 20 How. 264, 266 (1858); Publius Syrus, </span><i style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #1d2129; white-space: pre-wrap;">Moral Sayings</i><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #1d2129; white-space: pre-wrap;"> 51 (D. Lyman transl. 1856) ("No one should be judge in his own cause."); Blaise Pascal, </span><i style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #1d2129; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules</i><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #1d2129; white-space: pre-wrap;"> 182 (Wight transl. 1859) ("It is not permitted to the most equitable of men to be a judge in his own cause.")</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #1d2129; white-space: pre-wrap;">As William Blackstone wrote, </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #1d2129; white-space: pre-wrap;">"[I]t is unreasonable that any man should <b>determine his own quarrel," </b></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #1d2129; white-space: pre-wrap;">1 W. Blackstone, </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #1d2129; white-space: pre-wrap;">Commentaries on the Laws of England</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #1d2129; white-space: pre-wrap;"> 91</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #1d2129; white-space: pre-wrap;"> <i>citing</i> </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #1d2129; font-style: italic; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dr. Bonham's Case</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #1d2129; white-space: pre-wrap;">, 8 Rep. 114a (C.P. 1610); </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-style: italic;"><span style="color: #1d2129; white-space: pre-wrap;">see also City of London v. Wood</span><span style="color: #1d2129; white-space: pre-wrap;">,</span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #1d2129; white-space: pre-wrap;"> 12 Mod. 669, 687 (1701)(Lord Holt)(invalidating fine for refusal to serve as sheriff recovered by the city in its own court of Mayor and Aldermen). </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-style: italic;"><span style="color: #1d2129; white-space: pre-wrap;">See also Aetna Life Ins. Co. v. Lavoie</span><span style="color: #1d2129; white-space: pre-wrap;">,</span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #1d2129; white-space: pre-wrap;"> 475 U.S. 813 (1986)(overruling case where Chief Justice of Alabama Supreme Court wrongfully sat in judgment of case that would set precedent for his own pending case); </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-style: italic;"><span style="color: #1d2129; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ward v. Village of Monroeville</span><span style="color: #1d2129; white-space: pre-wrap;">,</span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #1d2129;"> </span><a href="https://www.google.com/maps/search/409+U.S.+57?entry=gmail&source=g" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="color: blue; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">409 U.S. 57</a> </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #1d2129; white-space: pre-wrap;">(1972); </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-style: italic;"><span style="color: #1d2129; white-space: pre-wrap;">Gibson v. Berryhill</span><span style="color: #1d2129; white-space: pre-wrap;">,</span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #1d2129; white-space: pre-wrap;"> 411 U.S. 564 (1973); </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #1d2129; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Withrow</i></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #1d2129; white-space: pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-style: italic;">v. Larkin</span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #1d2129; white-space: pre-wrap;">, <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/search/421+U.S.+35?entry=gmail&source=g" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="color: blue; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">421 U.S. 35</a> (1975); </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-style: italic;"><span style="color: #1d2129; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cinderella Career and Finishing Schools, Inc. v. FTC</span><span style="color: #1d2129; white-space: pre-wrap;">,</span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #1d2129; white-space: pre-wrap;"> 425 F.2d 583 (D.C. Cir. 1970); </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-style: italic;"><span style="color: #1d2129; white-space: pre-wrap;">American Cyanamid Co. v. FTC</span><span style="color: #1d2129; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #1d2129; white-space: pre-wrap;">363 F.2d 757 (6th Cir. 1966); </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-style: italic;"><span style="color: #1d2129; white-space: pre-wrap;">SCA Services, Inc. v. Morgan</span><span style="color: #1d2129; white-space: pre-wrap;">,</span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #1d2129; white-space: pre-wrap;"> 557 F.2d 110 (7th Cir.</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #1d2129; white-space: pre-wrap;">1977). </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #1d2129;">The County Commission created a </span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">conflict of interest on its delegating the conflicts check to the man it's paying $15,000 a month, without its own conflicts check and without a background investigation. Commission and KOMANDO are perpetrating is the sort of sordid conflict of interest that Anglo-American courts have been protecting us against for some 414 </span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; white-space: pre-wrap;">years</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; white-space: pre-wrap;">. since at least 1610. </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #1d2129; font-style: italic; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dr. Bonham's case</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #1d2129; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-style: italic;">supra;</span> </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #1d2129; font-style: italic; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tumey v. Ohio</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; white-space: pre-wrap;">, 273 U.S. 510, 522-24 (1927) (Taft, C.J.). See also </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #1d2129; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #1d2129; font-style: italic; white-space: pre-wrap;">Laird v. Tatum,</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #1d2129; white-space: pre-wrap;"> 409 U.S. 824, 828 (1972) (Rehnquist, J.), holding that i</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #1d2129;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">t is well-settled that a government official is disqualified from ruling on a case "if [s]he either signs a pleading or brief" or "if he actively participated in any case. </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;">Worse, there was no disclosure of the identity of RICHARD KOMANDO's law partners, who include a former Republican state senator, ROB BRADLEY, who left office in </span><a href="https://www.flsenate.gov/Senators/2018-2020/S5/5101" style="color: #7c93a1; text-decoration: none;">2020</a><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> (four years ago), but whose website says he's still a State Senator. ROB BRADLEY is chair of the St. Johns River Water Management District, of which County Commissioner Isaac Henry Dean was longtime Executive Director.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">KOMANDO'S law firm managing partner ROB BRADLEY's wife, JENNIFER ELAINE BRADLEY, was elected to BOB BRADLEY's former Senate seat after his term ended. She's a</span></span></span><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Jennifer_Bradley#:~:text=Jennifer%20Bradley%20(Republican%20Party)%20is,ends%20on%20November%203%2C%202026." style="color: #7c93a1; text-decoration: none;"> lawyer and business manager with the law firm.</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Our County Commission is run by developers (which two Commissioners deny).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">This stinks on ice, my friends.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Racist, sexist, misogynist St. Johns County was called "the most lawless" place in America by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">RICHARD CHRISTIAN KOMANDO's hiring by SJC typifies the genre of one party rule. Developers rule. These people will "say and do anything," as the late photojournalist James David Pleasant put it.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Does KOMANDO's hiring represent discrimination against qualified attorneys currently working for St. Johns County, including Assistant County Attorney Christine Valleire? </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">What do y'all reckon?</span></p><p><br /></p><span style="background-color: #303030; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 13px;"></span><div class="body-wrapper float-menu" data-home="http://claylawyers.com" style="background-color: white; border: 0px rgb(222, 222, 222); caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><header class="gdlr-header-wrapper" style="border: 0px rgb(222, 222, 222); height: auto; margin: 0px; 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margin: 16px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div></div></div><div class="gdlr-attorney-content" style="border: 0px rgb(222, 222, 222); margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px rgb(222, 222, 222); margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Rich Komando received his undergraduate degree from Florida State University in 1996 and received his law degree from the Loyola University New Orleans, School of Law in 1999. He spent the next five years building a private law practice while working on civil, criminal, appellate, juvenile and international cases. Leaving private practice, he accepted a position as the Circuit Director and later as the statewide General Counsel for the Guardian ad Litem Program for the Fourth Judicial Circuit. In 2007, Rich completed his Masters of Business Administration at Florida State University.</p><p style="border: 0px rgb(222, 222, 222); margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Beginning in 2009, Rich spent the next four years working as a criminal prosecutor with the State Attorney’s Office serving as a Division Chief of the Special Prosecution Division and the Executive Director for the Fourth Judicial Circuit in Clay, Duval and Nassau counties. He prosecuted cases ranging from misdemeanors to crimes involving the death penalty while focusing on cases related to public corruption, white collar crime, organized fraud, embezzlement, arson and human trafficking. As the Executive Director, Rich supervised the Finance and Human Resources areas of the Business Office, the Public Records Division, the Forfeiture Division and the Information Technology Division for the office.</p><p style="border: 0px rgb(222, 222, 222); margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">As an experienced trial lawyer, Rich continues to work as a child advocate and advises and defends clients throughout Northeast Florida on a wide array of issues. Rich’s background and experience provide personal attention and broad insight for clients facing high profile, complex or sensitive matters.</p><p style="border: 0px rgb(222, 222, 222); margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">AV® Peer Review Rated by Martindale Hubbell.</p><p style="border: 0px rgb(222, 222, 222); margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px rgb(222, 222, 222); margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Practice Areas</strong></p><ul style="border: 0px rgb(222, 222, 222); list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; margin: 0px 0px 20px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px rgb(222, 222, 222); margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://claylawyers.com/practice/professional-licensing/" style="border: 0px rgb(222, 222, 222); color: #002c5a; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; 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margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Jacksonville Mayor’s Victims Assistance Advisory Council</li><li style="border: 0px rgb(222, 222, 222); margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Jacksonville Bar Association</li><li style="border: 0px rgb(222, 222, 222); margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Florida Bar Grievance Committee – 4C</li></ul></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Ed Slavinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00298486886820876739noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25979735.post-4763944471959518702024-03-02T06:26:00.000-08:002024-03-02T21:26:04.315-08:00ANNALS OF DeSANTISTAN:Ron DeSantis rips ‘anti-American’ rich, wants ‘scrutiny’ of foundations. (A. G. Gancarski, Florida Politics)<p><br /></p><div class="fR600b islir" jsname="DeysSe" style="height: 180px; margin-left: -25px; margin-right: -31px; position: relative;"><img alt="Is Ron DeSantis the Future of the Republican Party? - The New York Times" class="rg_i Q4LuWd" data-ils="4" height="133" jsaction="rcuQ6b:trigger.M8vzZb;" jsname="Q4LuWd" src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ_luBixwZiUm56x2bLY6tUM6N1UD-CnrznDw&usqp=CAU" style="border: none;" width="200" /></div><p>From 2013-2018, snooty Ivy League educated automaton RONALD DION DeSANTIS was our Congressman from St. Johns County. Now he's Florida's bumptious Boy Governor, and he wants to be President. Unhinged, uncouth, unkind arachnid authoritarian DeSANTIS sounds like Joe McCarthy in drag. Give it a rest, you rebarbative retromingent Dull Republican, you sound like an alien implant from the Tea Party and Koch Industries. DeSANTIS was an insecure baseball player. Now he's an insecure Dull Republican Boy Governor. Needs a checkup from the neck up, perhaps? From<i> Florida Politics:</i></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">DeSantis rips ‘anti-American’ rich, wants ‘scrutiny’ of foundations. </span></b></p><p>(A. G. Gancarski, <i>Florida Politics</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><div class="btArticleExcerpt" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Roboto Slab"; font-size: 1.125em; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.55em; margin: 0px 0px 19.95px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Governor responded to an 'interesting question' about generationally wealthy 'pieces of trash' and 'commie scum' in a podcast this week.</div><div class="btArticleBody portfolioBody btTextLeft" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="bt_bb_wrapper" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 0.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">Gov. <strong style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Ron DeSantis</strong> is fulminating about rich people he went to college with, calling them “legacies” who were “anti-American” despite having material advantages he did not.</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 0.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">“The folks that had been legacies from these universities or came from some of those multigenerational families of wealth, they tended to be the ones who were the most anti-American and were most left-wing in their activism,” the Governor told podcaster <strong style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Jesse Kelly</strong>.</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 0.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">DeSantis contrasted his “blue-collar” roots with some wealthier peers, finding irony in their willingness to question an economic system that benefited them.</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 0.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">“So, it’s interesting because they would fashion themselves as, like, standing up for the working people that I was one of those working people making minimum wage jobs to skate through. And I actually believed in the values of this country, and they had benefited so much from it, and they turned their back on it.”</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 0.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">The Governor’s comments were spurred by host Kelly asking about “useless commie scum,” referring to scions of the <strong style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Ford</strong>, <strong style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Walt Disney</strong>, and <strong style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Chase </strong>fortunes being “pieces of trash,” which DeSantis called an “interesting question.”</p><div class="flori-content" id="flori-773677869" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><div id="post-ads" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="dfad dfad_pos_1 dfad_first" id="post-ads_ad_654493" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 15px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></div></div></div><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 0.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">“If you look at some of these foundations like the Ford Foundation (and) some of these others, they were really (created by) great industrialists of the past, and now you go a few generations forward, and they are funding massive funding of hard left causes that are functionally anti-American and anti-the values that allowed their families to accumulate that wealth in the first place.”</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 0.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">“I’ve said that those organizations are things that we should look at for scrutiny because they get massive tax benefits. They don’t really pay taxes, and yet they’re really having a major political impact,” DeSantis lamented.</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 0.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">DeSantis predicated his presidential campaign on being a blue-collar boy who made it. While he may not have generational wealth yet, he’s well on his way after a bestselling book. His <strong style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a data-wpel-link="external" href="https://disclosure.floridaethics.gov/Report/PrintForm/?filingId=901305" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; color: #181818; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">last reported net worth</a></strong> to Florida was a tidy $1,174,331.07.</p><section class="boldSection gutter bottomMediumSpaced btAboutAutorSection" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2em;"><div class="port" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; margin: auto; max-width: 1326px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="boldRow" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px -15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="rowItem col-sm-12 btAboutAutor" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 15px; position: relative; width: 1017px;"><div class="btAboutAuthor" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1); box-sizing: border-box; display: table; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 30px 60px; text-align: justify; width: 987px;"><div class="aaAvatar" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-left-radius: 50%; border-bottom-right-radius: 50%; border-top-left-radius: 50%; border-top-right-radius: 50%; box-sizing: border-box; display: table-cell; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top; width: 120px;"><img alt="" class="avatar avatar-280 photo wp-hovercard-attachment grav-hashed grav-hijack" height="140" loading="lazy" src="https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/4f8cc941097099be1b9663e8c40820d3?s=280&d=mm&r=g" style="border-bottom-left-radius: 50%; border-bottom-right-radius: 50%; border-top-left-radius: 50%; border-top-right-radius: 50%; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: default; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 120px;" width="140" /></div><div class="aaTxt" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; display: table-cell; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1.875em; vertical-align: top;"><h4 style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; color: #181818; font-family: "roboto slab"; font-size: 1.875em; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.4em;">A.G. Gancarski</h4><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 0.625em; opacity: 0.9; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">A.G. Gancarski has written for FloridaPolitics.com since 2014. He is based in Northeast Florida. He can be reached at AG@FloridaPolitics.com or on Twitter: @AGGancarski</p></div></div></div></div></div></section></div></div>Ed Slavinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00298486886820876739noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25979735.post-25163786544683830552024-03-01T16:13:00.000-08:002024-03-01T16:14:26.134-08:00ANNALS OF DeSANTISTAN: DeSantis vetoes Florida bill banning social media for most kids (WaPo)<p>On this occasion, I am inclined to agree with Governor DeSANTIS. He's signed few vetoes, but two of them were of two bills sponsored by our Florida State Senator-developer TRAVIS JAMES HUTSON. Like a stopped clock, DeSANTIS might be right twice a day. From <i>The Washington Post:</i></p><p><br /></p><div class="grid-full-inner-standard" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: 3; grid-column-start: 1;"><header class="w-100" data-qa="main-full" style="box-sizing: border-box; width: 1124.184814453125px;"><div class="PJLV PJLV-iklXUFA-css" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 1000px; width: 1000px;"><h1 class="PJLV PJLV-iirWFJy-css overrideStyles" data-qa="headline" data-testid="headline" id="main-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray20); font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-headline); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-110); margin: 0px 0px var(--wpds-space-050); max-width: 1000px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-025);"><span class="PJLV" data-qa="headline-text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: large;">DeSantis vetoes Florida bill banning social media for most kids</span></span></h1></div><h2 class="font--subhead font-light offblack mb-sm pb-xxs-ns subheadline" data-qa="subheadline" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-decoration: none; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">Ron DeSantis</a> (R) vetoed what would have been one of the nation’s most restrictive bans against children using social media on Friday, drawing a line in the debate over kids’ online safety over concerns the bill did not allow parents to supervise teens’ activity.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">The bill is the latest Republican-led state measure aimed at tackling bipartisan concerns that platforms are worsening youth mental health and well-being.</p></div></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">But DeSantis said he is working with state officials on a “different, superior” alternative plan, without elaborating, meaning the state could still usher in new limits for children’s access to digital platforms like TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat.</p><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">“Protecting children from harms associated with social media is important, as is supporting parents’ rights,” DeSantis <a href="https://twitter.com/GovRonDeSantis/status/1763659319596224708" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-decoration: none; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">posted</a> on X. “I anticipate the new bill will recognize these priorities and will be signed into law soon.”</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">DeSantis previously voiced concern that it did not strike the right balance between protecting children from potential harms and giving parents more control over their online activity.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV wpds-c-PJLV-bHCGeL-isStandardLayoutAd-true article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">The remarks sparked speculation DeSantis might block the bill. DeSantis and state lawmakers have said in recent days that they had been in negotiations to hash out his concerns over the bill, which passed out of both of the state’s legislative chambers and headed to the governor’s desk last week.</p><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">Florida Senate President Kathleen Passidomo (R) said Thursday that to alter the bill passed by the state legislature, DeSantis would need to veto it and work with lawmakers to tackle his concerns before their legislative session wraps next week.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV wpds-c-PJLV-bHCGeL-isStandardLayoutAd-true article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">“My understanding is that they are in a really good spot,” Passidomo <a href="https://thefloridachannel.org/videos/2-29-24-press-availability-with-senate-president-kathleen-passidomo/" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-decoration: none; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">said</a> of DeSantis and other state lawmakers at a news conference.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">If signed, the measure is likely to face constitutional challenges, which have halted similar social media restrictions in Arkansas and Ohio, among other states. Federal judges have largely granted requests by tech industry groups for preliminary injunctions against those laws, finding that they probably violate free speech rights. Judges in those cases have at times also questioned the efficacy of the laws and whether they would address the issues they aim to solve around child mental health.</p><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">Tech industry and digital rights groups have argued that in addition to depriving children of positive online resources, the measures slyly force companies to collect vast reams of data to comply with their age vetting requirements.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV wpds-c-PJLV-bHCGeL-isStandardLayoutAd-true article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">NetChoice, a tech industry group suing to strike down similar state laws around the country, <a href="https://netchoice.org/netchoice-veto-request-for-florida-hb-1-massive-data-collection-on-floridians/" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-decoration: none; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">called on DeSantis</a> to veto the measure in a letter last month — foreshadowing a potential conflict if it is signed. The group counts Meta, Amazon and Google as members. (Amazon founder Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post.)</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">Federal law requires that companies obtain parental consent to collect data from children under 13 under the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act. Since its passage in 1998, many digital platforms have implemented rules banning kids under 13 from joining. DeSantis, however, has criticized federal enforcement of the law as too lax.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);">Some federal lawmakers have proposed bills to ban children under 16 from accessing social media or to require that parents sign off on teens’ use. 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(NBC News)<h1 class="article-hero-headline__htag lh-none-print black-print article-hero-headline__htag--live-breaking" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: var(--article-hero-headline--live--htag--line-height); margin: var(--article-hero-headline--htag--margin);"><span style="color: var(--article-hero-headline--htag--color); font-family: arial; font-size: small;">From NBC News, a bio of the Northeast Florida political operative </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;">building DONALD JOHN TRUMP's campaign:</span></h1><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><h1 class="article-hero-headline__htag lh-none-print black-print article-hero-headline__htag--live-breaking" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--article-hero-headline--htag--color); line-height: var(--article-hero-headline--live--htag--line-height); margin: var(--article-hero-headline--htag--margin);"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;">She sits in a tough chair': Meet Susie Wiles, the operative trying to guide Trump through four indictments to the White House</span></h1><div class="styles_articleDek__Icz5H styles_withImage__SSIip styles_isLiveBreakingNews___YFYJ" data-testid="article-dek" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--article-dek--color); line-height: var(--article-dek--line-height--compact); margin: var(--article-dek--with-image--margin);"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;">Wiles — a longtime operative who once worked for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis — has brought a low-drama approach to a volatile candidate.</span></div><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="article-body layout-grid-item layout-grid-item--with-gutter-s-only grid-col-10-m grid-col-push-1-m grid-col-6-xl grid-col-push-2-xl article-body--custom-column" data-activity-map="article-content" style="border-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px 20px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--article-body-color); flex-shrink: 0; font-family: var(--article-body-font-family); font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.5; margin-left: 200px; position: relative; width: 600px; word-wrap: break-word;"><div class="article-body__content" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px;"><br /></p><section class="article-hero__container default article-hero__container--breaking article-hero__live-breaking" data-testid="article-hero" style="--live-flag--default--background-color: var(--live-red-color); --live-flag--default--color: var(--live-red-color); box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; z-index: 20;"><div class="article-hero__bg-container" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><header class="article-hero__header mh0-print layout-grid-container article-hero__is-tagged" data-activity-map="article-hero" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; display: flex; flex-flow: row wrap; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 1200px; padding: 4.125rem var(--article-hero-header--flagged--padding-bottom,6.25rem); position: relative; z-index: 1;"><div class="article-hero-headline layout-grid-item article-hero-headline--live-breaking" style="border-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px 20px; box-sizing: border-box; flex-shrink: 0; padding: var(--article-hero-headline--live--padding); width: 1200px;"><h1 class="article-hero-headline__htag lh-none-print black-print article-hero-headline__htag--live-breaking" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--article-hero-headline--htag--color); font-family: var(--article-hero-headline--htag--font-family); font-size: var(--article-hero-headline--live--htag--font-size); font-weight: var(--article-hero-headline--htag--font-weight); line-height: var(--article-hero-headline--live--htag--line-height); margin: var(--article-hero-headline--htag--margin);">'She sits in a tough chair': Meet Susie Wiles, the operative trying to guide Trump through four indictments to the White House</h1><div class="styles_articleDek__Icz5H styles_loading__FrACj styles_withImage__SSIip styles_isLiveBreakingNews___YFYJ" data-testid="article-dek" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--article-dek--color); font-family: var(--article-dek--loading--font-family); font-size: var(--article-dek--font-size--compact); letter-spacing: var(--article-dek--loading--letter-spacing); line-height: var(--article-dek--line-height--compact); margin: var(--article-dek--with-image--margin);">Wiles — a longtime operative who once worked for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis — has brought a low-drama approach to a volatile candidate. </div></div></header></div><div class="article-hero__media-holder layout-grid-container article-hero__media-holder--compact" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-flow: row wrap; margin-bottom: var(--space-32); margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 1200px; pointer-events: none; position: relative; z-index: 1;"><div class="article-hero__media-container layout-grid-item grid-col-10-xl grid-col-push-2-xl" style="border-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px 20px; box-sizing: border-box; flex-shrink: 0; margin-left: 200px; pointer-events: all; width: 1000px;"><figure class="article-hero__main" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: var(--article-hero--image--default--margin-top) 0px 0px; width: 960px;"><picture class="article-hero__main-image" data-testid="picture" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0px;"><source media="(min-width: 1000px)" srcset="https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_fit-1240w,f_auto,q_auto:best/rockcms/2024-02/240226-susie-wiles-cover-se-1144a-cfdb8c.jpg" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></source><source media="(min-width: 758px)" srcset="https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_fit-1000w,f_auto,q_auto:best/rockcms/2024-02/240226-susie-wiles-cover-se-1144a-cfdb8c.jpg" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></source><img alt="Susie Wiles disembarks Trump Force One at Manchester-Boston Regional Airport" height="1667" src="https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best/rockcms/2024-02/240226-susie-wiles-cover-se-1144a-cfdb8c.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; width: 960px;" width="2500" /></picture></figure></div><figcaption class="caption article-hero__caption layout-grid-item grid-col-10-xl grid-col-push-2-xl" data-testid="caption" style="border-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px 20px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--caption--color); flex-shrink: 0; font-family: var(--caption--font-family); font-size: 0.875rem; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: var(--caption--line-height); margin-left: 200px; margin-top: var(--article-hero--caption--margin-top); padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; position: relative; width: 1000px;"><span class="caption__container" data-testid="caption__container" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: var(--caption--container--margin);">Susie Wiles disembarks from Trump Force One at Manchester-Boston Regional Airport in Londonderry, N.H., on Oct. 23. </span><span class="caption__source" data-testid="caption__source" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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--article-body--byline--font-family: var(--founders-cond); --article-body--byline--font-size: var(--text-20); --article-body--byline--font-weight: 400; --article-body--byline--line-height: 1; --article-body--byline--margin: 0; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--article-body--byline--color); font-family: var(--article-body--byline--font-family); font-size: var(--article-body--byline--font-size); line-height: var(--article-body--byline--line-height); margin: var(--article-body--byline--margin);">By <span class="byline-name" data-testid="byline-name" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/author/jonathan-allen-ncpn802641" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">Jonathan Allen</a></span> and <span class="byline-name" data-testid="byline-name" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/author/matt-dixon-ncpn1303556" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">Matt Dixon</a></span></div></section><div class="article-body__content" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;">The first time Donald Trump cold-called Susie Wiles, she didn’t pick up. </p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px;">It was 2015, and Trump was looking for a political guide to help him topple two of Florida’s favorite sons — former Gov. Jeb Bush and Sen. Marco Rubio — in the state’s delegate-rich, narrative-setting Republican presidential primary.</p><div id="taboolaReadMoreBelow" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px;">Wiles, who played a similar role in Rick Scott’s successful outsider bid for governor in 2010, didn’t recognize Trump’s number when it popped up on her phone. He kept ringing, and eventually she answered. </p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px;">“I’m told you know something about Florida,” Trump said. “Is that true?”</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px;">After a visit to Trump Tower in New York City, followed by a lengthy period of silence, Trump offered — and Wiles accepted — a post as co-chair of his campaign in the state. </p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px;">Since then, he has fired her, rehired her and made her arguably the most powerful aide in Republican politics. </p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px;">Now, Trump is storming through the Republican presidential primary campaign with Wiles, his de facto national campaign manager, applying a cool temperament to the political fires — often self-started — that surround and threaten to consume him.<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--article-body-content-strong); font-weight: 700;"> </span></p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px;">Wiles’ low-drama approach, forged over more than 40 years serving Republicans at every level from mayor to president, acts as a crucial counterbalance to a volatile candidate who is trying to win the White House while fighting four criminal indictments, according to GOP sources inside and outside Trump’s camp.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px;">“The only flamboyant person in the Trump campaign these days is Trump,” said Richard Porter, a member of the Republican National Committee from Illinois, who praised Wiles for running a “tight operation” out of Palm Beach, Florida. “He’s figured this thing out in a way that’s encouraging for a person that’s not in Trump world.”</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px;">This portrait of the woman Trump has entrusted with running his presidential campaign staff is drawn from interviews with a dozen Republicans, including Wiles, most of whom are close to Trump. Her task — helping return a defeated, twice-impeached former president facing four indictments to the White House — is unlike any other faced by an American political operative.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px;">Skeptics note that Wiles has never run anything with the scope or stakes of this undertaking, that the campaign has been spending more than it raises and that Trump’s primary victories more closely resemble those of a prohibitive favorite than a world-beater.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px;">And yet, with Wiles at his side, Trump heads into next week’s Super Tuesday contests carrying commanding leads in delegates and most public polling of coming primary contests. Surveys indicate he will start the general election on relatively even footing with President Joe Biden.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px;">Wiles, the daughter of legendary NFL play-by-play man Pat Summerall, has battled through adversity before. She told her father, in a letter delivered by friends at an alcohol intervention in the early 1990s, that his public behavior made her <a href="https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2010/oct/12/summerall-proud-overcoming-addiction-bein-20101012/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--article-body-list-link-color); outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">ashamed to share his name</a>. Summerall, who would later say her note cut the deepest, got sober.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px;">As a young aide in the Reagan administration, Wiles was personal secretary to Labor Secretary Raymond Donovan when he was <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1982/06/30/us/relief-and-doubt-voiced-on-donovan-s-clearance.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--article-body-list-link-color); outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">investigated for alleged mob ties</a>. Donovan, who resigned after a special prosecutor declined to bring charges and before he was acquitted in a New York trial, famously asked which office he could visit to “<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/05/us/raymond-j-donovan-dead.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--article-body-list-link-color); outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">get my reputation back</a>.” </p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px;">And in a fateful set of moves that preceded Trump’s bringing Wiles back into his fold, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis ousted her from his camp, persuaded Trump to sack her and tried to blacklist her in GOP circles.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px;">If there is a personality trait that links Trump to the soft-spoken, media-shy Wiles, it’s that survive-and-thrive drive: Trump feeds his by disrupting order; Wiles feeds hers by maintaining order. Many Republicans credit Trump’s political comeback, at least in part, to her bringing a new sense of discipline and direction to his campaign. </p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px;">Wiles isn’t one of them. </p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px;">In a rare on-the-record interview the day after Trump romped to victory over Nikki Haley in South Carolina, the platinum-bobbed and blue-eyed Wiles, 66, said his success so far is attributable to precisely one person: “President Trump.”</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px;">She said his natural political skills — “determination” and being a “student of people” and a “good reader of sentiment” — have been coupled with invaluable experience gained over eight years in the political and policy arenas. </p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px;">“He’s now more knowledgeable about what it takes to be president after his first term. He’s more knowledgeable about how to interact with the media. His personnel instincts are, I think, better honed,” Wiles said in a 30-minute phone call. “The new skills are inside the package of the same Donald Trump, and I think that’s what’s making the difference this time.”</p><h2 class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; color: var(--article-body-static-heading-color); font-family: var(--article-body-heading-font-family); font-size: var(--article-body-heading-h2-font-size); font-weight: var(--article-body-heading-font-weight); line-height: var(--article-body-heading-h2-line-height); margin: var(--article-body-static-heading-margin);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--article-body-heading-font-family); font-weight: 700;">'You gotta trust me on this one'</span></h2><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px;">There’s no doubt that Trump rises and falls on his own. </p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px;">A singular figure in American political history, he seized hold of the Republican Party’s political base during the 2016 election and hasn’t let go. There was no "Wizard of Oz" staffer standing behind the curtain when Trump fashioned indictments into trampolines and bounded past DeSantis, Haley and the rest of the Republican field.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px;">He has burned through so many campaign managers and chiefs of staff — no fewer than 10 — that it’s hard to remember them all. Most had egos big enough to believe they could manage Trump, as well as their own agendas.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px;">Wiles is just trying to manage his staff to best serve him, according to several people who work closely with her, including Trump’s eldest son. </p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px;">“She’s purely focused on doing whatever she can for my father,” Donald Trump Jr. said in a statement. “It’s not about making money, it’s not about getting press, it’s not about getting credit, it’s about doing everything she can to fight for my dad.”</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px;">Wiles “always puts his best interest ahead of everything else, which is something I certainly can’t say about most political operatives that I’ve met,” Trump Jr. added. The campaign declined to make the former president available for an interview.</p><figure class="styles_inlineImage__yAWZ0 styles_medium__OMa6x" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 3rem 0px; padding: 0px; width: 560px;"><picture class="styles_image__1qciH" data-testid="picture" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-size: 0px; height: auto; line-height: 0; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 560px;"><source media="(min-width: 1000px)" srcset="https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_fit-560w,f_avif,q_auto:eco,dpr_2/rockcms/2024-02/240226-susie-wiles-donald-trump-se-1144a-e9c47a.jpg 2x, https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_fit-560w,f_auto,q_auto:best/rockcms/2024-02/240226-susie-wiles-donald-trump-se-1144a-e9c47a.jpg 1x" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></source><source srcset="https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_fit-760w,f_avif,q_auto:eco,dpr_2/rockcms/2024-02/240226-susie-wiles-donald-trump-se-1144a-e9c47a.jpg 2x, https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best/rockcms/2024-02/240226-susie-wiles-donald-trump-se-1144a-e9c47a.jpg 1x" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></source><img alt="onald Trump speaks with Susie Wiles, center, staff and reporters while flying home on his airplane" height="1667" loading="lazy" src="https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best/rockcms/2024-02/240226-susie-wiles-donald-trump-se-1144a-e9c47a.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; width: 560px;" width="2500" /></picture><figcaption class="caption styles_caption__Pe5JC" data-testid="caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--caption--color); float: none; font-family: var(--caption--font-family); font-size: 0.875rem; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: var(--caption--line-height); margin: var(--caption-vert-margin) 0 0; position: relative; width: auto;"><span class="caption__container" data-testid="caption__container" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: var(--caption--container--margin);">Former President Donald Trump with Susie Wiles, center, staff members and reporters on his plane after he spoke at a campaign event in Manchester, N.H., on April 27.</span><span class="caption__source" data-testid="caption__source" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--caption--source--color); display: inline-block; font-family: var(--caption--source--font-family); font-size: 0.75rem; letter-spacing: var(--caption--source--letter-spacing); margin: var(--caption--source--margin); word-spacing: var(--caption--source--word-spacing);">Jabin Botsford / The Washington Post via Getty Images file</span></figcaption></figure><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px;">Because the person at the top isn’t distracted with her own priorities or delusions of becoming the first person to tame Trump, it’s easy for the rest of the staff to concentrate on the mission of electing him, said a senior campaign official who spoke on the condition of anonymity.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px;">“When the leader with all the power doesn’t bring their own agenda to the fight, it becomes real challenging to bring your own,” the campaign official said. </p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px;">Trump allies and critics alike note that this campaign has functioned more fluidly than his first two. They point in particular to a push for early endorsements that far outstripped similar efforts by Trump’s rivals, the campaign’s mastery of delegate selection rules, and organized ground efforts that left nothing to chance in the first five states on the calendar — all of which Trump won handily while peppering his barnstorming schedule with court appearances.</p><div class="recommended-intersection-ref" data-activity-map="recommended-article-body-recommended" data-testid="recommended-wrapper" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /></div><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px;">Trump’s past campaigns and White House teams have been studies in power struggles and personality clashes, both in terms of internal warfare and of outsiders fighting with insiders for Trump’s ear. As he moves toward claiming the nomination, and possibly the presidency, a diverse array of interests will jockey for his attention and favor, creating complications for his top aide.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px;">“She sits in a tough chair,” Bill Stepien, who managed Trump’s 2020 campaign, said with knowing sympathy.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px;">Wiles and veteran operatives Chris LaCivita and Jason Miller, who all hold the title “senior adviser,” focus on controlling what they can control: the blocking and tackling of the campaign. They all seem to understand that no one is really a Trump-whisperer and that anyone with the title “campaign manager” will be the first to be sent packing if Trump grows dissatisfied. </p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px;">“One of Susie’s greatest strengths is that she truly understands what President Trump is looking for in a campaign operation,” said Miller, who is working on his third Trump campaign. “She’s able to put his plan into effect, and I think some people who have previously worked for the president have tried to get him to conform to their way of doing things, where Susie’s approach is that he gives direction and then she’s going to come up with smart strategy and the right people to help accomplish that.” </p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px;">Wiles said she doesn’t anticipate Trump’s naming a campaign manager for the general election, but there’s no question she’s in charge at the staff level.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px;">“Everyone has a role, and it all goes back to Susie. She is the most well-organized political operative I have ever worked with,” said Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida, who has collaborated with Wiles on several campaigns, including DeSantis’ 2018 bid for governor. “She does not operate in a pyramid system. She is the center, and everyone else is a spoke.”</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px;">Trump consults her on everything from political strategy to decorations in his airplane and his recent brainstorm about a line of self-branded sneakers. Wiles offers opinions, sometimes pushing back gently, but doesn’t substitute her judgment for his.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px;">She thought <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/trump-launches-sneaker-line-rcna139334" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--article-body-list-link-color); outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">the release of the Trump kicks</a> at an athletic-shoe convention, in the middle of a presidential election, would be a disaster.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px;">“Are you sure you want to do this?” she recalled asking him as he prepared to hawk glitzy gold $399-a-pair “Never Surrender” high tops at Sneaker Con in Philadelphia in mid-February. </p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px;">“Yes, I do,” said Trump, who was greeted with a mixture of cheers and jeers at the convention. “You gotta trust me on this one.”</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px;">As many as a thousand pairs of the limited-edition shoes <a href="https://www.axios.com/2024/02/18/trump-sneakers-never-surrender-launch" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--article-body-list-link-color); outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">sold out</a> in a matter of hours. </p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px;">Brad Todd, a Republican consultant who has known Wiles since they worked on a bond referendum in Jacksonville, Florida, two decades ago and again on Scott’s campaign, said her unique attribute is that she is “relentlessly collected” in an arena that tends to focus on the latest crisis.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px;">“She’s never ruffled, she never panics, she keeps her eyes well down the track,” Todd said. “Campaigns often have a tyranny of the urgent, and that often derails even good campaigns. She does an exceptional job of not falling prey to the tyranny of the urgent.” </p><h2 class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; color: var(--article-body-static-heading-color); font-family: var(--article-body-heading-font-family); font-size: var(--article-body-heading-h2-font-size); font-weight: var(--article-body-heading-font-weight); line-height: var(--article-body-heading-h2-line-height); margin: var(--article-body-static-heading-margin);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--article-body-heading-font-family); font-weight: 700;">'An ax to grind'</span></h2><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px;">If revenge is a dish best served cold, DeSantis is buried under an avalanche of frozen pudding.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px;">During a recent catch-up call with supporters from his defunct presidential campaign, DeSantis was asked about the effects of Trump’s brutally negative campaign against him — which included a super PAC ad that made fun of him for once having eaten pudding with his fingers in front of aides.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px;">He singled out Wiles, though not by name, for his woes.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px;">“I think he’s got people in his inner circle who were part of our orbit years ago that we fired, and I think some of that is they just have an ax to grind,” DeSantis said.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px;">The nasty professional break-up of DeSantis and Wiles in 2019 stunned many Republicans because of the integral role she played in electing him.</p><div class="pullquote pullquote--small" data-testid="pullquote-small" style="border-image: var(--pullquote--border-image); border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; float: left; margin: 0.5rem 2.5rem 3rem -6.25rem; padding: var(--pullquote--small--padding); position: relative; width: 22.5rem;"><p class="pullquote__quote" data-testid="pullquote-quote" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--pullquote--quote--color); font-family: var(--pullquote--quote--font-family); font-size: var(--pullquote--quote--small--font-size); font-style: var(--pullquote--quote--font-style); line-height: var(--pullquote--quote--line-height); margin: 0px; padding: var(--pullquote--quote--padding); position: relative;">Friends of mine from the old days scratch their heads, but I don't care.</p><p class="pullquote__attribution" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--pullquote--attribution--font-family); font-size: var(--pullquote--attribution--font-size); line-height: var(--pullquote--attribution--line-height); margin: var(--pullquote--attribution--margin); position: relative; text-transform: uppercase;"><cite class="pullquote__cite" data-testid="pullquote-attribution" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--black); font-style: normal;">SUSIE WILES</cite><span class="pullquote__quip" data-testid="pullquote-quip" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--pullquote--quip--color);"></span></p></div><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px;">Wiles agreed to step into DeSantis’ 2018 campaign for governor a month or so before that year’s election as he teetered on the brink of defeat at the hands of Democrat Andrew Gillum. </p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px;">“I fired myself,” joked Gaetz, who was the DeSantis campaign’s top adviser until Wiles was hired. “I replaced myself with Susie Wiles.”</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px;">Trump’s endorsement had been the key factor in DeSantis’ pulling off an upset primary win that year, but when Trump appeared at a campaign rally for DeSantis in late October, he made sure to <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/20/trump-desantis-florida-susie-wiles-1504981" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--article-body-list-link-color); outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">heap credit on Wiles</a> for the work she was doing in the general election.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px;">Trump walked into a holding room before the rally, looked at DeSantis, pointed to Wiles and said, “Smartest thing you’ve ever done.”</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px;">DeSantis would go on to win by a little more than 34,000 of the 8 million votes cast — a margin close enough to trigger a recount.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px;">DeSantis isn’t known for his gratitude — it’s easier to count the number of advisers who have been cast out of his inner circle than the number who remain — and if he felt any toward Wiles, it evaporated quickly. By the spring of 2019, she had been dismissed from his team amid claims that she was using her influence to place allies in jobs and serve her lobbying clients.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px;">“It had a lot to do with the battle between her and Shane Strum,” who was DeSantis’ first chief of staff, a longtime DeSantis adviser said. “He was new in the orbit and trying to establish himself as the alpha dog in that community.”</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px;">Strum didn’t answer a call seeking comment. </p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px;">But DeSantis and his advisers weren’t satisfied with ousting Wiles. Convinced that she was the source of <a href="https://www.tampabay.com/florida-politics/buzz/2019/09/12/ron-desantis-political-team-planned-25k-golf-games-250k-intimate-gatherings-memos-say/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--article-body-list-link-color); outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">leaked documents indicating that DeSantis was selling access</a> to lobbyists and donors, DeSantis <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/20/trump-desantis-florida-susie-wiles-1504981" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--article-body-list-link-color); outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">successfully pressured Trump to fire her</a> in September 2019. On the same day, Wiles announced that she was leaving the lobbying firm Ballard Partners because of health issues. </p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px;">A longtime ally described the whisper campaign against Wiles as “lies” and DeSantis’ vindictiveness as “beyond the pale.” </p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px;">By the summer of 2020, as he lagged Biden in polls in Florida, Trump turned his attention to Wiles. He wanted her back and called DeSantis <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/20/trump-desantis-florida-susie-wiles-1504981" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--article-body-list-link-color); outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">from the Oval Office</a> to say he was planning to hire her. DeSantis was insistent that she remain on the sidelines.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px;">“He raised questions about her trustworthiness. He raised questions about her competency,” a person familiar with the discussion said. And, this person said, DeSantis suggested that “he might not be as personally engaged” in Trump’s re-election effort in Florida if Wiles were hired to run it.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px;">Trump decided he had deferred to DeSantis for long enough and tapped Wiles to reprise her role from 2016. He won Florida again, even as he lost the presidency.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px;">“He made the right decision,” said Stepien, the 2020 Trump campaign manager. “I worried a lot less about Florida after Susie Wiles was hired.”</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px;">Shortly after he left office in 2021, Trump picked Wiles to run his post-presidential political operation. That put her in charge of fundraising, vetting candidates who wanted Trump’s endorsement in the 2022 midterms and just about everything else. </p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px;">But the most important project, as it became clear that DeSantis would run for president, was dispatching the governor, who fancied himself a more polished and more essentially conservative version of Trump. Wiles said she didn’t have to provide any guidance to Trump about how to draw contrasts with DeSantis or get under his skin.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px;">“He’s a far keener reader of people than I am,” she said. “I didn’t need to do that.”</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px;">DeSantis endorsed Trump as he dropped out of the race before the New Hampshire primary in January, but his remarks on the February donor call suggest he hasn’t let go of his grudge against Wiles.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px;">Gaetz, who has known both Wiles and DeSantis for years, says only one lives rent-free in the other’s head.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px;">“Ron DeSantis thinks about Susie Wiles way more than Susie Wiles thinks about Ron DeSantis,” he said.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px;">Wiles is flummoxed by the fixation.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px;">“I don’t understand why, so many years later, a governor, particularly of his stature, even cares about any kind of staff member. It just doesn’t make a bit of sense to me,” she said. “It didn’t change my opinion of him.”</p><h2 class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; color: var(--article-body-static-heading-color); font-family: var(--article-body-heading-font-family); font-size: var(--article-body-heading-h2-font-size); font-weight: var(--article-body-heading-font-weight); line-height: var(--article-body-heading-h2-line-height); margin: var(--article-body-static-heading-margin);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--article-body-heading-font-family); font-weight: 700;">Unprecedented challenges </span></h2><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px;">With the primary campaign starting to fade in the rearview mirror, Wiles’ challenge is to scale up Trump’s operation for a national campaign at a time when he has had trouble raising money and much of his cash has been directed to legal bills. </p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px;">Like most general election presidential campaign managers, Wiles has never done this before — and there are skeptics in Trump’s orbit.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px;">A former Trump campaign official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to avoid angering him and Wiles, pointed to Trump’s cash crunch as a reason to doubt Wiles’ effectiveness. This person said Wiles is capable in state-level races and presidential primaries, in which close relationships with outside power players matter more than they do in a full-scale national campaign for the White House. </p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px;">“I like Susie, but she’s in over her head,” this former official said.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px;">That, of course, remains to be seen. One key will be the ease or difficulty with which the Republican National Committee is effectively subsumed into the Trump campaign. Through joint fundraising agreements, the party committee has the ability to raise exponentially more money from individual donors than the campaign can under federal law.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px;">Trump has <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/trump-endorses-michael-whatley-lead-rnc-lara-trump-co-chair-rcna138519" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--article-body-list-link-color); outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">named</a> North Carolina GOP Chair Michael Whatley and Lara Trump, the wife of his son Eric Trump, as his picks for co-chairmanships of the committee. LaCivita will take on a role as the de facto chief operating officer of the RNC while retaining his position as a senior adviser to Trump, said Wiles, who describes their relationship as splitting up the duties of a traditional campaign manager. </p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px;">“While he may be physically at the RNC, I think his brain will still be at the campaign, and I don’t intend to take a completely hands-off role at the RNC, either,” she said. “We’re doing it all together.”</p><figure class="styles_inlineImage__yAWZ0 styles_medium__OMa6x" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 3rem 0px; padding: 0px; width: 560px;"><picture class="styles_image__1qciH" data-testid="picture" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-size: 0px; height: auto; line-height: 0; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 560px;"><source media="(min-width: 1000px)" srcset="https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_fit-560w,f_avif,q_auto:eco,dpr_2/rockcms/2024-02/240226-susie-wiles-donald-trump-2-se-1145a-63ecfe.jpg 2x, https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_fit-560w,f_auto,q_auto:best/rockcms/2024-02/240226-susie-wiles-donald-trump-2-se-1145a-63ecfe.jpg 1x" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></source><source srcset="https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_fit-760w,f_avif,q_auto:eco,dpr_2/rockcms/2024-02/240226-susie-wiles-donald-trump-2-se-1145a-63ecfe.jpg 2x, https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best/rockcms/2024-02/240226-susie-wiles-donald-trump-2-se-1145a-63ecfe.jpg 1x" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></source><img alt="Susie Wiles watches as Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump " height="1667" loading="lazy" src="https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best/rockcms/2024-02/240226-susie-wiles-donald-trump-2-se-1145a-63ecfe.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; width: 560px;" width="2500" /></picture><figcaption class="caption styles_caption__Pe5JC" data-testid="caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--caption--color); float: none; font-family: var(--caption--font-family); font-size: 0.875rem; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: var(--caption--line-height); margin: var(--caption-vert-margin) 0 0; position: relative; width: auto;"><span class="caption__container" data-testid="caption__container" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: var(--caption--container--margin);">Susie Wiles with Donald Trump at a caucus night party in Des Moines, Iowa, on Jan. 15. </span><span class="caption__source" data-testid="caption__source" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--caption--source--color); display: inline-block; font-family: var(--caption--source--font-family); font-size: 0.75rem; letter-spacing: var(--caption--source--letter-spacing); margin: var(--caption--source--margin); word-spacing: var(--caption--source--word-spacing);">Andrew Harnik / AP</span></figcaption></figure><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px;">The ritual integration of a nominee’s campaign and the national party committee is usually a little bumpy, but it’s nothing compared to the complications of running a presidential bid alongside a legal defense. Not only does Wiles have to worry about the candidate’s time, but there’s also a chance she could be called to testify in Trump’s trial on charges that he retained classified documents from his time in the White House.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px;">After special counsel Jack Smith charged Trump in that case last year, <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/top-trump-campaign-aide-identified-key-individual-classified/story?id=100452600" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--article-body-list-link-color); outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">ABC News reported</a> that Wiles was the unnamed person in the indictment whom Trump allegedly showed a classified map of an unidentified country. Around the same time, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/29/politics/susie-wiles-special-counsel-investigation-documents-trump/index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--article-body-list-link-color); outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">CNN reported</a> that Wiles had met repeatedly with federal investigators, which a source familiar with the situation confirmed to NBC News. </p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px;">Wiles may be asked, or compelled, to appear in a witness box, a possibility that she declined to address.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px;">Wiles, who described the confluence of election and court dates as a “scheduling nightmare” earlier in the campaign, said Trump’s legal and political strategies aren’t at odds with each other.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px;">“If they conflict, it’s only on a calendar,” she said. </p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px;">“We’re going to see that he will find time for everything he needs to do, which I know is not what anybody on the other side intended,” she said, lightly echoing Trump’s charge that he is the victim of politically motivated prosecutions. “They clearly intended to tie up so much of the important campaigning time that he would not be able to campaign, and that is not what has happened.” </p><h2 class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; color: var(--article-body-static-heading-color); font-family: var(--article-body-heading-font-family); font-size: var(--article-body-heading-h2-font-size); font-weight: var(--article-body-heading-font-weight); line-height: var(--article-body-heading-h2-line-height); margin: var(--article-body-static-heading-margin);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--article-body-heading-font-family); font-weight: 700;">'Not an ideologue'</span></h2><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px;">Wiles is an odd fit for Trump’s “Make America Great Again” movement. She is such a product of the Republican establishment that it’s hard to discern any particular philosophical bent.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px;">Her first job in politics was with then-Rep. Jack Kemp of New York, who had played in the NFL at the same time as her father and shared a broadcast booth with him. She worked in Ronald Reagan’s White House and Labor Department, for Vice President Dan Quayle, briefly as the presidential campaign manager for former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman’s ill-fated 2012 presidential primary bid and for three GOP mayors of Jacksonville, Florida, among others.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px;">“She’s not an ideologue,” said Todd, who noted that the bond referendum for a “Better Jacksonville” created the funding mechanism for public projects, including a courthouse and a minor-league baseball stadium, that might not have been politically palatable if taxpayers were forced to foot the bill. “She enjoys succeeding in places where people think you can’t succeed.”</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px;">Becoming the top aide to a former president trying to make a comeback after his attempt to overturn his loss culminated in supporters’ beating cops and vandalizing the Capitol might qualify as such an assignment.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px;">Roughly half the country thinks she’s working for a criminal and wants her to fail. </p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px;">When Trump first called Wiles in 2015, she said, she was drawn to the idea of disrupting the status quo — even though she’d been part of establishing it.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px;">“Friends of mine from the old days scratch their heads, but I don’t care,” she said. “I am quite sure that we are on a mission, and we’re going to complete it.”</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px;">Trump boasts to others that Wiles won Florida twice for him — “hyperbolic on his part,” she carefully notes — and did so without election irregularities. For now, he seems pleased with his campaign team, having praised Wiles and LaCivita the night of his Iowa caucus victory in January. </p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px;">“They want no accolades,” Trump said at his party in Des Moines. “They just want a victory.”</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px;">But Wiles has been through enough to know fortunes and favor can change.</p><p class="endmark" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px var(--article-body-last-paragraph-margin-btm);">“When you’re winning,” she said, “it’s easy to like people.”</p></div><div class="article-body__content" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="expanded-byline-contributors articleBylineContainer" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 3rem;"><div class="expanded-byline article-expanded-byline" data-activity-map="expanded-byline-article-bottom" style="border-bottom: var(--expanded-byline--border-bottom); border-top: var(--expanded-byline--border-top); 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(Orlando Sentinel)<p>MIKLOS' corruption evidences the extent of corruption under recent Republican Governors. From <i>Orlando Sentinel:</i></p><header class="entry-header article-header" style="-webkit-box-pack: justify; border-bottom-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 3px; box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; float: none; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; justify-content: space-between; line-height: inherit; margin: 2em 0em -2.25em; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1132px;"><div class="header-title-area" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;"><div class="headline-area" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1132px;"><div class="headlines" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><h1 class="entry-title" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; display: inline-block; font-family: Lora, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 2rem; font-stretch: normal; letter-spacing: -0.03em; line-height: 1.15; margin: 0px 0px 0.2666666667em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1132px;"><span class="dfm-title metered" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">$2M in public money could go to Lake Apopka project tied to controversial former water district chair</span></h1></div></div></div></header><div class="article-content" style="-webkit-box-pack: justify; 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font-size: 0.875em; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 700; line-height: 0.9285714286; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1132px;">Patrick Connolly/Orlando Sentinel</div>Views of Lake Apopka are available from Lake County’s Ferndale Preserve near Lake Apopka on Wednesday, June 16, 2021.</figcaption></figure><div class="meta" style="-webkit-box-align: center; align-items: center; border-bottom-color: rgb(200, 196, 192); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 3px; box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 1em; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1132px;"><img alt="Annie Martin, Orlando Sentinel staff portrait in Orlando, Fla., Tuesday, July 19, 2022. 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box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">February 29, 2024 at 5:56 p.m.</time></div><div class="time" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.8125rem; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.4285714286; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><time class="updated" datetime="2024-02-29 17:56:14" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></time></div><div class="time" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.8125rem; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.4285714286; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A pair of Central Florida Republican lawmakers are requesting $2 million in public money that would go to an entity connected to several prominent GOP figures and co-operated by John Miklos, a controversial former chair of the St. Johns Water Management District.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The taxpayer funds would be used to plant aquatic vegetation on 141 acres in long-polluted Lake Apopka, according to the budget requests submitted by Rep. Taylor Yarkosky of Montverde and Sen. Jason Brodeur of Sanford.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But so far<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">,</span> the Florida Senate has included $500,000 for the project in its version of the state budget, although that figure could change as lawmakers hammer out details of the spending plan over the coming days. The House’s spending plan didn’t include any funding for the Lake Apopka project.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Records show a company called Aquaticus Plants LLC, which grows and sells freshwater and saltwater native plants, requested the funding. 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box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--titleBarColor); font-size: 12px; left: 0px; opacity: 0; overflow: hidden; padding: 0.5em 1em; pointer-events: none; position: absolute; top: 0px; transition: opacity 300ms; width: 901.5999755859375px; z-index: 1;"><span class="title" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-line-clamp: 2; display: -webkit-inline-box; font-weight: 700; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis;">Top Videos - Apple kills its electric car project: sources</span></div><div class="content" style="border-radius: var(--contentBorderRadius); display: flex; flex-grow: 1; position: relative;"><div class="mediaGroupContainer" style="background: var(--panelBackground); border-radius: var(--contentBorderRadius); position: relative; width: 901.5999755859375px;"></div></div></div></stn-player><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 16.5px; font-stretch: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.16499999165534973px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Miklos also is president of Bio-Tech Consulting, an environmental consulting firm that worked with dozens of clients in the St. Johns Water Management District while Miklos was the chair, prompting complaints that his dual roles presented a conflict of interest.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 16.5px; font-stretch: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.16499999165534973px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Shortly after Gov. Ron DeSantis took office in 2019, he rescinded Gov. Rick Scott’s second reappointment of Miklos to the water board and added him to the University of Central Florida’s Board of Trustees.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Miklos didn’t return an email or phone message seeking comment for this story, and Yarkosky and Brodeur didn’t answer questions about his involvement in the proposed project.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Miklos has donated to both Yarkosky and Brodeur, including a $10,000 gift to a political committee chaired by Yarkosky in 2023.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 16.5px; font-stretch: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.16499999165534973px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Budget documents say a nonprofit organization called the Aquatic Restoration & Conservation Alliance, which was set up last year, would receive the state funding if it is awarded. Its leaders include local developer Jeff Fuqua, who said his organization’s role is to disburse funding for the project as work is completed.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 16.5px; font-stretch: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.16499999165534973px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“My entity has no financial interest in the profitability of the project,” Fuqua wrote in an email. “We are paid a fee to administer the project.”</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 16.5px; font-stretch: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.16499999165534973px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Miklos’ business partner, Aquaticus Plants co-owner Beau Williams, said the project would be a continuation of his other firm’s ongoing work on Lake Apopka.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 16.5px; font-stretch: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.16499999165534973px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Williams’ other firm, Aquatech Eco Consultants, has planted 50 acres of aquatic plants and is slated to plant 50 more this year through a contract with the St. Johns River Management District, he said.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 16.5px; font-stretch: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.16499999165534973px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Water district board members have approved more than $1.3 million in funding for the project, which calls for planting eelgrass and pondweed designed to improve water quality and expand the habitat available for wildlife.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 16.5px; font-stretch: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.16499999165534973px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“This is a beneficial project for Lake Apopka,” Williams said.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 16.5px; font-stretch: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.16499999165534973px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Aquaticus Plants is a subcontractor on that project, records show.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 16.5px; font-stretch: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.16499999165534973px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Aquaticus Plants also has ties to Chris Dorworth, the former lawmaker and lobbyist who is locked in a years-long legal battle with Seminole County over a failed attempt to build a large housing development in a rural portion of the county.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 16.5px; font-stretch: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.16499999165534973px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dorworth’s consulting firm was listed on Aquaticus Plants’ corporate records in 2020, although Williams said Dorworth is no longer connected to the firm. He didn’t respond to an email from the Orlando Sentinel about the matter.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 16.5px; font-stretch: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.16499999165534973px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dorworth’s finances are a source of contention in Seminole County, where leaders are pushing to obtain bank account records from him and his wife, as well as Dorworth’s consulting firm, to establish his liability for $432,000 in legal fees his River Cross development firm owes the county.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 16.5px; font-stretch: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.16499999165534973px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">More than a year ago, a judge ordered River Cross to pony up the fees to repay much of what Seminole County spent defending itself against a failed lawsuit brought by the development firm. 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font-size: 15.399999618530273px; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 0.35em; padding: 0px;">On Feb. 4, 1974, the newly minted St. Johns County Citizens Advisory Council on Aging (COA’s original name) served its first congregate meal in the cafeteria of Flagler Hospital, which was then located on Marine Street in St. Augustine.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 15.399999618530273px; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 0.35em; padding: 0px;">“Little did we know then that this partnership would blossom into a rich tapestry of shared initiatives and endeavors aimed at enhancing the wellbeing of our community,” said Carlton DeVooght, president and CEO of UF Health St. Johns during COA’s 50th Anniversary Celebration, held Friday, Feb. 23, at River House in St. Augustine.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 15.399999618530273px; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 0.35em; padding: 0px;">UF Health St. Johns is a health care enterprise extending from UF Health Flagler Hospital following a recent merger.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 15.399999618530273px; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 0.35em; padding: 0px;">The well-attended celebration featured light hors d’oeuvres, memorabilia, historic newspaper clippings from COA’s first half century, a video presentation and speakers. River House is COA’s lifelong learning center and one of many initiatives launched and completed by the late Cathy Brown, who served as executive director from 1999 to 2013.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 15.399999618530273px; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 0.35em; padding: 0px;">"We’re excited to be celebrating 50 years, and we look forward to continuing to grow and expand to meet the needs of the seniors in the future,” said Becky Yanni, who has served as executive director for the past 11 years.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 15.399999618530273px; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 0.35em; padding: 0px;">COA launched its first transportation service during its first year. By December 1974, COA had served more than 27,000 meals to 478 seniors, 10% of which were delivered via Meals on Wheels.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 15.399999618530273px; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 0.35em; padding: 0px;">Today, COA operates six senior centers, three memory care locations, a dedicated memory care facility and an adult day care. It offers door-to-door transportation for medical appointments and life-sustaining activities, as well as the Sunshine Bus, the agency’s public transportation service.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 15.399999618530273px; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 0.35em; padding: 0px;">The meals continue to be a keystone of COA’s service. Last year, it served about 69,000 meals, between those served at the senior centers and those that were home-delivered.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 15.399999618530273px; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 0.35em; padding: 0px;">The home deliveries are especially important for seniors who cannot get out.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 15.399999618530273px; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 0.35em; padding: 0px;">“Sometimes our volunteers who deliver those meals are the only people that shut-ins see during that day,” said Yanni.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 15.399999618530273px; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 0.35em; padding: 0px;">The centers provide an array of classes, programs and activities. They offer companionship, socialization, education and a good meal. At River House alone, about 500 people registered for classes in February, and it appears a similar number will sign up in March.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 15.399999618530273px; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 0.35em; padding: 0px;">The transportation alone helps to ensure that seniors may not have to move into a facility should they need only a modest level of help.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 15.399999618530273px; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 0.35em; padding: 0px;">“We help people stay independent in their own homes and age gracefully and age well,” said Yanni.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 15.399999618530273px; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 0.35em; padding: 0px;">Much of COA’s success is reliant upon its various partnerships and about 500 volunteers. The county plays an important role by providing a 10% match for state and federal funding grants that help to make up the other 90%. The COA budget is about $8 million.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 15.399999618530273px; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 0.35em; padding: 0px;">In addition, COA employs about 165 people.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 15.399999618530273px; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 0.35em; padding: 0px;">Looking to the future, COA Board President Steve Harrison told those assembled that “the senior population in St. Johns County is continuing to grow exponentially. With that, of course, comes the need for more services, more programming.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 15.399999618530273px; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 0.35em; padding: 0px;">Among those recognized during the festivities were Joe Boles, who served as board president for more than 20 years, and Lonnye DeSue, wife of the late Rev. Thomas B. DeSue, who served as board president from 1975 to 1978.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 15.399999618530273px; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 0.35em; padding: 0px;">During his comments, DeVooght praised COA for providing patrons with two very important intangibles.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 15.399999618530273px; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 0.35em; padding: 0px;">“In my book,” he said, “there are few things that you can give to someone that mean more in various stages of life than their dignity and respect.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 15.399999618530273px; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 0.35em; padding: 0px;">Learn more about COA and what it offers at coasjc.org.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 15.399999618530273px; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 0.35em; padding: 0px;">To see what River House has scheduled for March, click <a href="https://pontevedrarecorder.com/stories/coas-river-house-announces-march-schedule,80771" style="background-position: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #28652b; text-decoration: none;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">HERE</span></a>.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 15.399999618530273px; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 0.35em; padding: 0px;">To see what THE PLAYERS Community Senior Center has scheduled for March, click <a href="https://pontevedrarecorder.com/stories/coas-the-players-community-senior-center-announces-march-schedule,80772" style="background-position: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #28652b; text-decoration: none;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">HERE</span></a>.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 15.399999618530273px; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 0.35em; padding: 0px;">To see what the COA Center at Flagler Health+ Village at Nocatee has scheduled for March, click <a href="https://pontevedrarecorder.com/stories/march-programs-at-coa-center-at-flagler-healthplus-village-at-nocatee,80773" style="background-position: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #28652b; text-decoration: none;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">HERE</span></a>.</p></div>Ed Slavinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00298486886820876739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25979735.post-81069205294847498732024-03-01T03:44:00.000-08:002024-03-01T03:44:47.045-08:00Physician, Heal Thyself.<p>In what some call a "sticky-fingered nation built on stolen land," there are now reportedly some doctors and hospitals demanding up-front payments. Should this be against the law? Does it violate the Hippocratic Oath?</p>Ed Slavinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00298486886820876739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25979735.post-63756488122480226432024-02-28T16:40:00.000-08:002024-02-28T16:40:41.501-08:00ICYMI: Florida has a statewide prosecutor<p>Frustrated with local prosecutors' failure to investigate developers' control of our County government and there forms of white collar crime and corruption? Florida has an Office of Statewide Prosecution. Florida Statute 16.56: </p><p><br /></p><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; width: 600px;"><tbody><tr><td style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"></td><td style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><h2 style="font-family: georgia, times, serif; font-size: 15pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.2em;">The 2023 Florida Statutes (including Special Session C)<br /><img alt="" border="0" height="3" src="http://www.leg.state.fl.us/Images/dividers/600x3_gradient.gif" width="600" /></h2></td></tr><tr><td style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"></td><td style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 600px;"><tbody><tr><td style="color: navy; font-size: 10pt;"><table style="width: 600px;"><tbody><tr valign="top"><td style="color: navy; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><center><b><a href="http://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Index&Title_Request=IV#TitleIV" style="color: navy; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">Title IV</a></b><br />EXECUTIVE BRANCH</center></span></td><td style="color: navy; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><center><b><a href="http://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&URL=0000-0099/0016/0016ContentsIndex.html" style="color: navy; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">Chapter 16</a> </b><br />ATTORNEY GENERAL</center></span></td><td style="color: navy; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><center><b><a href="http://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&URL=0000-0099/0016/0016.html" style="color: navy; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">View Entire Chapter</a></b></center></span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td style="color: navy; font-size: 10pt;"><div id="statutes" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><div class="Section" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 1em;"><span class="SectionNumber" style="display: inline; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 1em 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">16.56 </span><span class="Catchline" style="display: inline; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="CatchlineText" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:space="preserve">Office of Statewide Prosecution.</span><span class="EmDash" style="display: inline; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">—</span></span><span class="SectionBody" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="Subsection" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 1em;"><span class="Number" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">(1) </span><span class="Text Intro Justify" style="display: inline; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0.1em; text-align: justify;" xml:space="preserve">There is created in the Department of Legal Affairs an Office of Statewide Prosecution. The office shall be a separate “budget entity” as that term is defined in chapter 216. The office may:</span><div class="Paragraph" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 1em;"><span class="Number" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">(a) </span><span class="Text Intro Justify" style="display: inline; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0.1em; text-align: justify;" xml:space="preserve">Investigate and prosecute the offenses of:</span><div class="SubParagraph" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 1em;"><span class="Number" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">1. </span><span class="Text Intro Justify" style="display: inline; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0.1em; text-align: justify;" xml:space="preserve">Bribery, burglary, criminal usury, extortion, gambling, kidnapping, larceny, murder, prostitution, perjury, robbery, carjacking, home-invasion robbery, and patient brokering;</span></div><div class="SubParagraph" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 1em;"><span class="Number" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">2. </span><span class="Text Intro Justify" style="display: inline; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0.1em; text-align: justify;" xml:space="preserve">Any crime involving narcotic or other dangerous drugs;</span></div><div class="SubParagraph" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 1em;"><span class="Number" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">3. </span><span class="Text Intro Justify" style="display: inline; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0.1em; text-align: justify;" xml:space="preserve">Any violation of the Florida RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization) Act, including any offense listed in the definition of racketeering activity in s. <a href="http://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&Search_String=antitrust%20immunity&URL=0800-0899/0895/Sections/0895.02.html" style="color: navy; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">895.02</a>(8)(a), providing such listed offense is investigated in connection with a violation of s. <a href="http://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&Search_String=antitrust%20immunity&URL=0800-0899/0895/Sections/0895.03.html" style="color: navy; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">895.03</a> and is charged in a separate count of an information or indictment containing a count charging a violation of s. <a href="http://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&Search_String=antitrust%20immunity&URL=0800-0899/0895/Sections/0895.03.html" style="color: navy; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">895.03</a>, the prosecution of which listed offense may continue independently if the prosecution of the violation of s. <a href="http://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&Search_String=antitrust%20immunity&URL=0800-0899/0895/Sections/0895.03.html" style="color: navy; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">895.03</a> is terminated for any reason;</span></div><div class="SubParagraph" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 1em;"><span class="Number" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">4. </span><span class="Text Intro Justify" style="display: inline; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0.1em; text-align: justify;" xml:space="preserve">Any violation of the Florida Anti-Fencing Act;</span></div><div class="SubParagraph" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 1em;"><span class="Number" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">5. </span><span class="Text Intro Justify" style="display: inline; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0.1em; text-align: justify;" xml:space="preserve">Any violation of the Florida Antitrust Act of 1980, as amended;</span></div><div class="SubParagraph" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 1em;"><span class="Number" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">6. </span><span class="Text Intro Justify" style="display: inline; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0.1em; text-align: justify;" xml:space="preserve">Any crime involving, or resulting in, fraud or deceit upon any person;</span></div><div class="SubParagraph" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 1em;"><span class="Number" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">7. </span><span class="Text Intro Justify" style="display: inline; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0.1em; text-align: justify;" xml:space="preserve">Any violation of s. <a href="http://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&Search_String=antitrust%20immunity&URL=0800-0899/0847/Sections/0847.0135.html" style="color: navy; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">847.0135</a>, relating to computer pornography and child exploitation prevention, or any offense related to a violation of s. <a href="http://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&Search_String=antitrust%20immunity&URL=0800-0899/0847/Sections/0847.0135.html" style="color: navy; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">847.0135</a> or any violation of chapter 827 where the crime is facilitated by or connected to the use of the Internet or any device capable of electronic data storage or transmission;</span></div><div class="SubParagraph" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 1em;"><span class="Number" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">8. </span><span class="Text Intro Justify" style="display: inline; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0.1em; text-align: justify;" xml:space="preserve">Any violation of chapter 815;</span></div><div class="SubParagraph" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 1em;"><span class="Number" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">9. </span><span class="Text Intro Justify" style="display: inline; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0.1em; text-align: justify;" xml:space="preserve">Any violation of chapter 825;</span></div><div class="SubParagraph" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 1em;"><span class="Number" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">10. </span><span class="Text Intro Justify" style="display: inline; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0.1em; text-align: justify;" xml:space="preserve">Any criminal violation of part I of chapter 499;</span></div><div class="SubParagraph" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 1em;"><span class="Number" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">11. </span><span class="Text Intro Justify" style="display: inline; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0.1em; text-align: justify;" xml:space="preserve">Any violation of the Florida Motor Fuel Tax Relief Act of 2004;</span></div><div class="SubParagraph" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 1em;"><span class="Number" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">12. </span><span class="Text Intro Justify" style="display: inline; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0.1em; text-align: justify;" xml:space="preserve">Any criminal violation of s. <a href="http://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&Search_String=antitrust%20immunity&URL=0400-0499/0409/Sections/0409.920.html" style="color: navy; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">409.920</a> or s. <a href="http://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&Search_String=antitrust%20immunity&URL=0400-0499/0409/Sections/0409.9201.html" style="color: navy; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">409.9201</a>;</span></div><div class="SubParagraph" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 1em;"><span class="Number" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">13. </span><span class="Text Intro Justify" style="display: inline; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0.1em; text-align: justify;" xml:space="preserve">Any criminal violation of the Florida Money Laundering Act;</span></div><div class="SubParagraph" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 1em;"><span class="Number" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">14. </span><span class="Text Intro Justify" style="display: inline; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0.1em; text-align: justify;" xml:space="preserve">Any criminal violation of the Florida Securities and Investor Protection Act;</span></div><div class="SubParagraph" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 1em;"><span class="Number" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">15. </span><span class="Text Intro Justify" style="display: inline; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0.1em; text-align: justify;" xml:space="preserve">Any violation of chapter 787, as well as any and all offenses related to a violation of chapter 787; or</span></div><div class="SubParagraph" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 1em;"><span class="Number" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">16. </span><span class="Text Intro Justify" style="display: inline; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0.1em; text-align: justify;" xml:space="preserve">Any criminal violation of chapter 24, part II of chapter 285, chapter 546, chapter 550, chapter 551, or chapter 849;</span></div><p class="Reversion Justify" style="clear: both; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 1em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px;" xml:space="preserve">or any attempt, solicitation, or conspiracy to commit any of the crimes specifically enumerated above. The office shall have such power only when any such offense is occurring, or has occurred, in two or more judicial circuits as part of a related transaction, or when any such offense is connected with an organized criminal conspiracy affecting two or more judicial circuits. Informations or indictments charging such offenses shall contain general allegations stating the judicial circuits and counties in which crimes are alleged to have occurred or the judicial circuits and counties in which crimes affecting such circuits or counties are alleged to have been connected with an organized criminal conspiracy.</p></div><div class="Paragraph" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 1em;"><span class="Number" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">(b) </span><span class="Text Intro Justify" style="display: inline; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0.1em; text-align: justify;" xml:space="preserve">Investigate and prosecute any crime enumerated in paragraphs (a) and (c) facilitated by or connected to the use of the Internet. Any such crime is a crime occurring in every judicial circuit within the state.</span></div><div class="Paragraph" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 1em;"><span class="Number" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">(c) </span><span class="Text Intro Justify" style="display: inline; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0.1em; text-align: justify;" xml:space="preserve">Investigate and prosecute any crime involving:</span><div class="SubParagraph" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 1em;"><span class="Number" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">1. </span><span class="Text Intro Justify" style="display: inline; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0.1em; text-align: justify;" xml:space="preserve">Voting in an election in which a candidate for a federal or state office is on the ballot;</span></div><div class="SubParagraph" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 1em;"><span class="Number" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">2. </span><span class="Text Intro Justify" style="display: inline; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0.1em; text-align: justify;" xml:space="preserve">Voting in an election in which a referendum, an initiative, or an issue is on the ballot;</span></div><div class="SubParagraph" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 1em;"><span class="Number" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">3. </span><span class="Text Intro Justify" style="display: inline; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0.1em; text-align: justify;" xml:space="preserve">The petition activities of a candidate for a federal or state office;</span></div><div class="SubParagraph" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 1em;"><span class="Number" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">4. </span><span class="Text Intro Justify" style="display: inline; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0.1em; text-align: justify;" xml:space="preserve">The petition activities for a referendum, an initiative, or an issue; or</span></div><div class="SubParagraph" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 1em;"><span class="Number" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">5. </span><span class="Text Intro Justify" style="display: inline; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0.1em; text-align: justify;" xml:space="preserve">Voter registration;</span></div><p class="Reversion Justify" style="clear: both; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 1em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px;" xml:space="preserve">or any attempt, solicitation, or conspiracy to commit any of the crimes specifically enumerated above. The office shall have such power only when any such offense is occurring, or has occurred, in two or more judicial circuits as part of a related transaction, or when any such offense is affecting, or has affected, two or more judicial circuits. Informations or indictments charging such offenses must contain general allegations stating the judicial circuits and counties in which crimes are alleged to have occurred or the judicial circuits and counties in which crimes are alleged to have affected.</p></div><div class="Paragraph" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 1em;"><span class="Number" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">(d) </span><span class="Text Intro Justify" style="display: inline; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0.1em; text-align: justify;" xml:space="preserve">Upon request, cooperate with and assist state attorneys and state and local law enforcement officials in their efforts against organized crimes.</span></div><div class="Paragraph" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 1em;"><span class="Number" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">(e) </span><span class="Text Intro Justify" style="display: inline; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0.1em; text-align: justify;" xml:space="preserve">Request and receive from any department, division, board, bureau, commission, or other agency of the state, or of any political subdivision thereof, cooperation and assistance in the performance of its duties.</span></div></div><div class="Subsection" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 1em;"><span class="Number" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">(2) </span><span class="Text Intro Justify" style="display: inline; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0.1em; text-align: justify;" xml:space="preserve">The Attorney General shall appoint a statewide prosecutor from not less than three persons nominated by the judicial nominating commission for the Supreme Court. The statewide prosecutor shall be in charge of the Office of Statewide Prosecution for a term of 4 years to run concurrently with the term of the appointing official. The statewide prosecutor shall be an elector of the state, shall have been a member of The Florida Bar for the preceding 5 years, and shall devote full time to the duties of statewide prosecutor and not engage in the private practice of law. The Attorney General may remove the statewide prosecutor prior to the end of his or her term. A vacancy in the position of statewide prosecutor shall be filled within 60 days. During the period of any vacancy, the Attorney General shall exercise all the powers and perform all the duties of the statewide prosecutor. A person appointed statewide prosecutor is prohibited from running for or accepting appointment to any state office for a period of 2 years following vacation of office. The statewide prosecutor shall on March 1 of each year report in writing to the Governor and the Attorney General on the activities of the office for the preceding year and on the goals and objectives for the next year.</span></div><div class="Subsection" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 1em;"><span class="Number" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">(3) </span><span class="Text Intro Justify" style="display: inline; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0.1em; text-align: justify;" xml:space="preserve">The statewide prosecutor may conduct hearings at any place in the state; summon and examine witnesses; require the production of physical evidence; sign informations, indictments, and other official documents; confer immunity; move the court to reduce the sentence of a person convicted of drug trafficking who provides substantial assistance; attend to and serve as the legal adviser to the statewide grand jury; and exercise such other powers as by law are granted to state attorneys. The statewide prosecutor may designate one or more assistants to exercise any such powers.</span></div><div class="Subsection" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 1em;"><span class="Number" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">(4) </span><span class="Text Intro Justify" style="display: inline; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0.1em; text-align: justify;" xml:space="preserve">It is the intent of the Legislature that in carrying out the duties of this office, the statewide prosecutor shall, whenever feasible, use sworn investigators employed by the Department of Law Enforcement, and may request the assistance, where appropriate, of sworn investigators employed by other law enforcement agencies.</span></div></span><div class="History" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 1em;"><span class="HistoryTitle" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.83em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">History.</span><span class="EmDash" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.83em; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">—</span><span class="HistoryText" style="font-size: 0.83em; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:space="preserve">ss. 1, 9, ch. 85-179; s. 1, ch. 90-12; s. 1, ch. 92-108; s. 4, ch. 93-212; s. 51, ch. 95-147; s. 5, ch. 95-427; s. 8, ch. 96-252; s. 6, ch. 96-260; s. 69, ch. 96-388; s. 3, ch. 97-78; s. 12, ch. 2001-54; s. 30, ch. 2003-155; s. 8, ch. 2004-73; s. 1, ch. 2004-344; s. 6, ch. 2004-391; s. 9, ch. 2005-209; s. 73, ch. 2005-277; s. 2, ch. 2007-143; s. 1, ch. 2009-242; s. 1, ch. 2012-97; s. 7, ch. 2013-2; s. 1, ch. 2015-92; s. 5, ch. 2016-84; s. 50, ch. 2016-105; s. 1, ch. 2017-173; s. 1, ch. 2021-221; ss. 1, 16, ch. 2021-269; s. 1, ch. 2023-2.</span></div></div></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table>Ed Slavinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00298486886820876739noreply@blogger.com0