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Friday 3 November 2017
GOP senators say Trump announces Broadcom’s return to US
‘dreamers’ must
wait for next year By ZEKE MILLER ers approve the move, easier to do business in delayed while it’s scruti-
MATT O’BRIEN bringing $20 billion in an- the U.S. “America is once nized by the Committee on
By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press nual revenue back to the again the best place to Foreign Investment in the
Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. The move will allow lead a business with a glob- United States. The high-lev-
WASHINGTON (AP) — $100 billion semiconductor Broadcom to avoid a cum- al footprint,” Broadcom el government committee,
President Donald Trump company based in Singa- bersome federal review CEO Hock Tan said. familiarly known as CFIUS,
and Republican senators pore will legally relocate process.The Oval Office However, Broadcom’s investigates proposed ac-
agreed not to deal with a its home address to the announcement was tied move to the U.S. will take quisitions of U.S. companies
needed fix for young im- United States, President to the release of congres- place regardless of wheth- by foreign buyers on na-
migrants in must-pass year- Donald Trump announced sional Republicans’ tax er the Republican plan tional security and intellec-
end spending legislation, Thursday. reform proposal, which passes, the company said. tual property grounds.
according to some GOP Broadcom Limited, which would drastically reduce A year ago, the compa- By becoming a U.S.-based
lawmakers who visited the manufactures communi- corporate rates and makes ny entered a $5.5 billion company, Broadcom can
White House on Thursday. cations chips around the it easier for companies to agreement to merge with avoid the CFIUS process.
Instead, they said, a solu- world, said it would relo- deduct foreign taxes. U.S. network provider Bro- Broadcom’s corporate
tion would likely wait until cate its legal address to The company credits the cade Communications headquarters will remain in
next year for some 800,000 Delaware once sharehold- GOP plan with making it Systems, but that has been San Jose, California.
immigrants brought illegal-
ly to the United States as Manafort attacks special counsel’s case as ‘embellished’
children. Those immigrants,
known by supporters as Jackson said.
Dreamers, are in limbo af- Besides the indictment of
ter Trump announced he Manafort and Gates, pros-
was ending temporary ecutors revealed a guilty
deportation protections plea from a campaign ad-
granted by the Obama viser named George Pa-
administration and giving padopoulos, who admit-
Congress until March to ted lying to the FBI about
come up with a fix. foreign contacts during
Democrats have indicated the campaign.
they want to use a year- Prosecutors disclosed ad-
end spending bill to force ditional details about the
action on Dreamers. Their wealth and international
votes will likely be needed connections of Manafort
to pass spending legislation and Gates in a court filing
to keep the government earlier this week that sought
running, so the Trump-GOP to keep them confined to
stance may not end up their houses. The prosecu-
prevailing.“No immigra- tors note that Manafort has
tion bill on the omnibus or provided widely differing
any other must-pass piece accounts of his assets in
of legislation in 2017,” said the past few years. In 2016
GOP Sen. Tom Cotton of Paul Manafort, President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, departs Federal District alone, he provided six dif-
Arkansas after exiting the Court, Thursday, Nov. 2, 2017, in Washington. ferent figures, ranging from
meeting with Trump. “He (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) $25 million to $136 million.
agreed to that, as does By ERIC TUCKER and did not pose a risk of where a judge determined Manafort also has three
the Senate leadership, and CHAD DAY fleeing the country.The fil- that they would remain on passports. And prosecu-
I think the vast majority of Associated Press ing was the first volley from home confinement and tors say that in March, he
Republican senators.”Sen. WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi- Manafort’s defense team electronic monitoring at registered a phone and
John Cornyn of Texas said dent Donald Trump’s for- seeking to undermine a least through the weekend. an email account using
using the so-called “om- mer campaign chairman 12-count indictment charg- Attorneys for Manafort, 68, an alias. He then used that
nibus” spending bill to re- attacked an indictment ing him and longtime busi- and Gates, 45, are ask- phone to travel to China,
solve the status of Dream- accusing him of money ness associate Rick Gates ing U.S. District Judge Amy Mexico and Ecuador, ac-
ers was “the pipe dream laundering and other fi- in connection with their Berman Jackson to lift the cording to the filings, which
of some Democrats.”“It’s nancial crimes, dismissing political consulting work for conditions of their home do not say what alias he
more likely than not to be as “embellished” a criminal Ukraine’s former ruling par- confinement and say the used.In a response Thurs-
part of a January-February case brought by special ty. The charges were the bonds are enough to en- day, Downing countered
time frame,” Cornyn said counsel Robert Mueller and first announced by Mueller, sure they show up for court. that the passports are in his
of dealing with immigration his team of investigators. the former FBI director ap- The judge said she would client’s name and noted
legislation.Immigrant ad- Attorneys for Paul Manafort pointed as special counsel take up the matter again at that, though “it may be
vocates have been push- defended him in a court in May to run the Justice a hearing on Monday, but surprising to some, it is per-
ing for action. In Septem- filing Thursday as a “suc- Department’s investigation in the meantime, directed fectly permissible to have
ber, Democratic leaders cessful, international po- into potential coordina- attorneys on both sides to more than one U.S. pass-
said they had a deal with litical consultant” who, tion between Russia and not comment publicly on port.” He dismissed the
Trump to enshrine protec- by nature of his work on the Trump campaign.They the case. Manafort’s attor- allegation that Manafort
tions for the immigrants in behalf of foreign political were placed on house ar- ney, Kevin Downing, had is- was a flight risk, saying his
exchange for border secu- parties, was necessarily in- rest earlier this week, re- sued a statement to report- client has traveled abroad
rity measures short of a bor- volved in international fi- leased on multimillion-dollar ers outside the courthouse and returned to the U.S.,
der wall. But the supposed nancial transactions. They bonds meant to guarantee on Monday.“I expect all while being well aware
deal immediately came argued that Manafort, who their appearances for fu- counsel to do their talk- that he was under federal
into dispute and now ap- led Trump’s campaign for ture court dates. Both men ing in the courtroom and investigation and faced
pears to have totally un- several months last year, appeared Thursday in fed- in their pleadings, and not a possible criminal indict-
raveled if it existed at all.q had done nothing wrong eral court in Washington, on the courthouse steps,” ment. q