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Diasabra 21 Mei 2022

Trump pays $110K fine, must submit paperwork to end contempt

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Judge Arthur Engoron agreed
Associated Press May 11 to lift the contempt
NEW YORK (AP) — order if, by Friday, Trump
Former President Don- paid the fines and submitted
ald Trump has paid the affidavits detailing efforts to
$110,000 in fines he racked search for the subpoenaed re-
up after being held in con- cords and explaining his and
tempt of court for being his company’s document re-
slow to respond to a civil tention policies.
subpoena issued by New Engoron also required a
York’s attorney general. company hired by Trump to
aid in the search, Haystack-
Trump paid the fine Thurs- ID, finish going through 17
day but must still submit ad- boxes kept in off-site stor-
ditional paperwork in order age, and for that company to
to have the contempt order report its findings and turn ted 66 pages of court docu- on financial statements for evidence found in the probe
lifted, the office of Attorney over any relevant documents. ments detailing the efforts by over a decade. could support legal action
General Letitia James said That process was completed him and his lawyers to locate Trump, a Republican, de- against the former president,
Friday. Thursday, James’ office said. the subpoenaed records. He nies the allegations. He has his company, or both.
A message seeking comment Engoron told Trump to pay warned that he could rein- called James’ investigation The lawyer, Andrew Amer,
was left Friday with Trump’s the money directly to James’ state it, retroactive to May 7, “racist” and a politically mo- said at a hearing in Trump’s
lawyer. office and for the attorney if his conditions weren’t met. tivated “witch hunt.” James is lawsuit against James that
A Manhattan judge declared general to hold the money James, a Democrat, has said Black. Trump’s lawyers have “there’s clearly been a sub-
Trump in contempt of court in an escrow account while her three-year investiga- accused her of selective pros- stantial amount of evidence
on April 25 and fined him Trump’s legal team appeals tion uncovered evidence ecution. Trump is also suing amassed that could support
$10,000 per day for not com- the judge’s original contempt that Trump’s company, the James in federal court, seek- the filing of an enforcement
plying with a subpoena in finding. Trump Organization, mis- ing to shut down her probe. proceeding,” although a final
James’ long-running investi- Engoron stopped the fine
gation into his business prac- from accruing May 6, when stated the value of assets like Last week, a lawyer for determination on filing such
skyscrapers and golf courses James’ office said Friday that an action has not been m
tices. Trump’s lawyers submit-

Migrants cross border amid legal uncertainty on asylum rule

By ELLIOT SPAGAT last month also started taking
Associated Press in limited numbers of Cu-
EAGLE PASS, Texas (AP) bans and Nicaraguans who
— As U.S. officials anx- have been turned away by
iously waited, many of U.S. authorities.
the migrants crossing the Nolberto Avila, a small cof-
border from Mexico on fee grower who fled threats
Friday were oblivious to of violence in Colombia and
a pending momentous left his mother and a sibling
court ruling on whether there to manage the harvests,
to maintain pandemic- had never heard of Title 42
related powers that deny a in the social media channels
chance to seek asylum on that migrants consult to de-
grounds of preventing the termine whom they can trust
spread of COVID-19. and whom and what to avoid.
Online chatter directed him
The Justice Department, to Eagle Pass after he flew to
hoping to avoid last-minute Cancun and took buses to the
scrambling over the week- U.S border.
end, asked U.S. District
Judge Robert Summerhays “It feels good to be here,” said
to decide by Friday whether Avila, 30, who spent $3,000
to keep Title 42 in place while on airfare and other travel
litigation proceeds. The expenses, such as bribes to
judge in Lafayette, Louisiana, Mexican soldiers. His ulti-
has said he would decide by cult for the U.S. to fly them der city of Piedras Negras. the southern city of Tapa- mate destination is Los An-
Monday, when the public home. After several hours, an agent chula. She said she also fre- geles.
health powers are scheduled Ana Pinales of the Domini- arrived for them, relieving quently paid bribes to get
to expire. can Republic, who reached armed Texas National Guard past Mexican military check- A group of about 150 mostly
Migrants crossing in Eagle Eagle Pass after three years members who had watched points. Cuban migrants assembled
Pass, Texas, knew little or of living illegally in Chile, over the group as golfers on Friday a short distance
nothing about the rule un- where she was unable to find played on an adjoining river- Title 42 has largely affected south of the bridge, having
der which migrants have steady work, waded across front course. people from Mexico, Gua- swum and walked across the
been expelled more than 1.9 the river before dawn and “Everyone in the world temala, Honduras and El river in smaller groups over
million times since March walked down a dirt road with knows about this route,” Pi- Salvador, many of whom several hours since a few
2020. They were largely from about 35 Nicaraguans and 25 nales, 28, said with a smile, have been waiting in Mexi- hours before dawn. Border
Cuba, Colombia, Nicaragua Cubans, searching for U.S. relieved that she was nearly at can border towns after being Patrol agents lined them up
and Venezuela — nation- Border Patrol agents to claim the end of a two-month jour- denied the right to seek asy- single file and directed them
alities that have mostly been asylum. She walked longer ney that took her through lum by the U.S. government. into vans to go to a process-
spared from the asylum ban than the rest and met about Panama’s notorious Darien Mexico has agreed to accept ing area. About two-thirds
because high costs, strained 15 other migrants waiting Gap and Mexico, where she migrants from those three were men, nearly all the rest
diplomatic relations or other under one of Eagle Pass’ two was robbed of $3,000 while Central American countries were women and some were
considerations make it diffi- bridges to the Mexican bor- biding her time in a park in turned back by the U.S. and young children.