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# A 19-year-old Stanford phenom is blazing a new trail from Japan to the majors
STANFORD, Calif. — The dugout chatter for intrasquad games at the Sunken Diamond can be merciless.
The slings and arrows are nonstop when Stanford baseball players are pitted against one another. The guys wearing red jerseys shout streams of insults at players on the black team and vice versa. “Whoa, hey, Lukes got a new stance,” a player wearing a black jersey yells as freshman catcher Luke Lavin stands upright in the batters box, perhaps imitating the Chicago Cubs [Cody Bellinger](https://theathletic.com/mlb/player/cody-bellinger-C79P7luR8MM8ZftM/).
Lavin pops up the next pitch. *“Same swing, though!”*
But the tone changes when No. 3 for the black team, a husky teenager and early enrollee who wont begin his freshman season until next year, steps in the box. The good-natured ribbing gives way to full-throated encouragement from both sides. *Lets go Rintaro! Cmon Rintaro! Give it a ride, Rintaro!*
“We still cant believe hes here,” infielder Jimmy Nati said. “Were all fanboying him, for sure.”
Rintaro Sasaki is not the typical Stanford baseball recruit. Back home in Japan, he is a national celebrity, instantly recognizable almost anywhere he goes. Last year, Sasaki was the top-rated high school player in a country where high school baseball is a national obsession. The left-handed slugger was projected to be the most coveted name in last Octobers Nippon Professional Baseball draft. He mashed a national record 140 home runs, with twice as many walks as strikeouts, for Hanamaki-Higashi High School in Iwate Prefecture, the same school that produced [Los Angeles Dodgers](https://theathletic.com/mlb/team/dodgers/) superstar [Shohei Ohtani](https://theathletic.com/mlb/player/shohei-ohtani-PYXhWEdNdM6bQVDP/) and [Toronto Blue Jays](https://theathletic.com/mlb/team/jays/) left-hander [Yusei Kikuchi](https://theathletic.com/mlb/player/yusei-kikuchi-1W4GePfKB8OMgQX4/). Sasakis father, Hiroshi, coached all of them and is a legendary figure in his own right.
When Rintaro graduated from high school this past March, television stations dispatched more than 30 camera crews to cover the event.
It would be a last glimpse. Sasaki announced a few weeks prior to the NPB draft that he would not register for it. Instead, he would blaze a trail and play collegiate ball in the United States — a nearly unprecedented path that could fast-track him to [Major League Baseball](https://theathletic.com/mlb/) as a draft-eligible sophomore in 2026.
In February, Sasaki stunned Stanford coach David Esquer and recruiting coordinator Thomas Eager when he requested a Zoom call with them, asked a few logistical questions, then told them that he was selecting the Cardinal over Cal, UCLA, and Vanderbilt.
Sasaki arrived on campus at the beginning of April, moved into a dorm room and enrolled in three classes as a pre-freshman. He can participate in all team activities except playing in games. He practices and works out with his new teammates. On game days, he suits up, cheers them on from the dugout and eagerly takes part in all the pregame traditions. Hes gone on road trips to Utah and Oregon State. Hes surprised everyone with how much English he understands, and hes left them slack-jawed with his batting-practice shots over the light standards. When he turned 19 on April 18, his teammates took him out to a dinner that included ice cream, candles and tables of complete strangers joining in to sing “Happy Birthday.”
He is absolutely loving all of it.
“I made the right choice,” Sasaki said through interpreter and team trainer Tomoo Yamada. “People are nice to me. Everyone is my friend. I havent missed Japan yet. I feel completely settled. I cant believe its been only four weeks. Im enjoying life.”
![](https://cdn.theathletic.com/app/uploads/2024/04/29214618/45084241_Rintaro_Sasaki_JPL_03242024_00042-scaled.jpg)
Sasaki was a national star in high school, but his first month in California has largely been filled with normal college experiences. (Courtesy of Stanford Athletics)
---
Beyond the right field fence at Klein Field, past the scoreboard and a stand of trees, is the Avery Aquatic Center. Its where Olympic swimmer Katie Ledecky would lap the competition during her brief time as a Stanford student. As best as anyone can tell, thats where a couple of Sasakis tape-measure home runs have splashed down.
Everything about Sasaki is broad and powerful, a body rendered in letterbox format. He stands 6 feet and 250 pounds, and his full-tilt swing puts every ounce behind the baseball. He hits line drives to left field that dismiss gravity as they streak over the fence. His pull power is pure astonishment. The ear-splitting sound off his aluminum bat exceeds OSHA safety standards.
“He looks like Barry Bonds,” Nati said. “Thats how good hes going to be. When he runs into balls, he hits them over the light tower. Its crazy.
“The ball comes off different. You can close your eyes, hear the sound and know its him.”
In a simulated game at Stanford last Wednesday, Sasaki lined a single off the fence and crushed two homers. According to Trackman, the second homer traveled 422 feet, with an exit velocity of 111 mph.
“Hey Rintaro,” Esquer called out. “Youll need to get that one out of the swimming pool.”
“Swimming pool?” Sasaki replied, then nodded and laughed. He knew what the words meant. He just needed a second to process them.
Heres another word to add to his growing vocabulary: *Trailblazer*.
“Ah, pioneer?” Sasaki said in English. “Yes, I know it.”
If Sasaki had been drafted by an NPB team, he would have been under club control for nine years. Although Japanese pro teams often gain a windfall in posting fees by making their players available to MLB before their nine years are up, there are no guarantees. Sasaki might have been pushing 30 by the time he had an opportunity to play in the U.S.
He made it clear: His goal is to play in the major leagues.
“Ohtani and Kikuchi are already overseas,” Sasaki said. “I always thought one day, hopefully I can get there. They were big influences for me. Ohtani said, Follow your instinct. That is what you decided. That is a path you need to keep walking.'”
Sasakis path — to become MLB draft-eligible by attending an American university — has almost no precedent. [Rikuu Nishida](https://theathletic.com/mlb/player/rikuu-nishida-9TLGm5n6p0d7S0sz/), a speedy infielder from Sendai, was an 11th-round pick of the [Chicago White Sox](https://theathletic.com/mlb/team/whitesox/) last year after a standout season at the University of Oregon. But Nishida, who played two seasons at a junior college upon arriving in the U.S., was not an NPB draft prospect in Japan.
Although there are no written rules that would prohibit an MLB team from signing a Japanese high school player out of its international signing pool, theres been an unofficial understanding among teams against the practice. (Until 2020, when it rescinded its rule, NPB enforced a ban of two to three years on Japanese players who opted out of the draft and signed with a foreign league.)
Ohtani came close to setting a groundbreaking precedent as a high school phenom in 2012, when he advised NBP teams against drafting him, saying that he intended to sign with an MLB franchise. The Nippon Ham Fighters took him anyway, then persuaded him to sign by promising to let him develop as a two-way player.
NPB teams had no such hope of signing Sasaki, who ensured that he would be taken off the NPB draft board by attending an American university. Now he will have two seasons to improve his conditioning and address weaknesses in his game before turning pro.
The chance to develop in less of a fishbowl environment was appealing to Sasaki and his father, as well.
“In Japan, people tend to focus more on shortcomings. But in the U.S., they develop individuality,” Hiroshi Sasaki [told CNN](https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/30/asia/ohtani-kikuchi-japan-baseball-prodigy-intl-hnk/index.html) in March.  “I think this is a very good choice for him.”
It is a choice that involves financial risk and delayed gratification. As a first-round pick in NPB, Sasaki likely would have received a signing bonus and incentives worth more than $1 million, plus personal services contracts that could have earned him hundreds of thousands more. At Stanford, of course, he is merely a student-athlete on scholarship. He also cannot participate in NIL opportunities while on U.S. soil because he is an international player on a student visa.
He would earn a multimillion bonus if he is a first-round pick in 2026, but that is far from assured. Because he is limited to first base and his defensive skills are unpolished, his bat must be compelling. And although he faced top high school competition in Japan, advancing to the Best Eight at the famed Koshien tournament last year, he mostly hit against pitchers who threw in the upper 80s.
He is betting on himself. And on Stanford to help him develop his gifts.
“I had the confidence to come to the States,” Sasaki said. “Right now I want to settle in here, take classes and do well. Take one step at a time. And two years from today, well see where I am at. Getting to the major leagues is not everything for my life. Of course I want to get drafted and get to the major leagues. But I want to keep studying and also be a good person.”
Does that make him a pioneer? He shrugged. Thats for others to decide.
“Hes showing a lot of courage to come here spring quarter, practice on a daily basis with a college team and look so comfortable,” Esquer said. “He wants to get an education and maybe become an entrepreneur, but hes also told us that he wants to leave a mark and blaze a trail for Japanese players to come here and play college baseball. Eighteen-year-old kids dont normally think that way.
“He grew up with Ohtani. Hes seen the standard of what it takes to be great.”
If Sasaki becomes a top MLB draft prospect two years from now, hes likely to be regarded as the baseball player who upended an entire system — something that even Ohtani could not accomplish.
Ohtani, asked about his influence on Sasakis decision, said he merely offered support and encouragement.
“I didnt really offer any advice or anything like that,” Ohtani said through Dodgers interpreter Will Ireton. “Making the best decision usually comes from being convicted. Ive made decisions like that in the past as well. I feel like thats the decision he made from his conviction.”
![](https://cdn.theathletic.com/app/uploads/2024/04/29210433/Screenshot-2024-04-13-at-4.56.17-PM-e1714439137556.png)
Sasaki (right) has known Ohtani since he was young, and has turned to the megastar for advice over the years. (Courtesy of the Sasaki family)
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Esquer and his coaches still have trouble believing Sasaki is here.
Stanford was a late entrant when the recruitment process began last year. Sasaki took unofficial visits to Vanderbilt, Duke, UCLA and Cal — he also attended a [Giants](https://theathletic.com/mlb/team/sf-giants/) game at Oracle Park — but did not go to Palo Alto. At the time, there wasnt a spot for him at Stanford, which allows a strict number of admissions per sport. Then two Cardinal players entered the transfer portal and a few others de-committed.
Suddenly, Stanford had a spot — and plenty of interest.
“We were playing catch-up, to be honest with you,” said Eager, who is the teams pitching coach as well as recruiting coordinator. “In the Japanese culture, because we werent involved in the first go-around, we didnt know if they would take it as a sign of disrespect. We hoped to explain that this is just how it operates here. We liked him all along. And we had a good official visit in January. But I tell you what, I did not think we were getting him.”
The official visit included meet-and-greets with three Stanford alums who are major leaguers: [Chicago Cubs](https://theathletic.com/mlb/team/cubs/) second baseman [Nico Hoerner](https://theathletic.com/mlb/player/nico-hoerner-Kuwj5u6wl0Zejo84/), [Kansas City Royals](https://theathletic.com/mlb/team/royals/) pitcher [Kris Bubic](https://theathletic.com/mlb/player/kris-bubic-BS13R3Nbm6cptfCh/) and San Francisco Giants pitcher [Tristan Beck](https://theathletic.com/mlb/player/tristan-beck-FKypLOG4plywtbHr/). Hoerner drew on his experience playing with Japanese outfielder [Seiya Suzuki](https://theathletic.com/mlb/player/seiya-suzuki-2K0ed4mlUN93bC3A/) in Chicago while encouraging Sasaki to make sure he could continue the routines that are important to him.
“You can do your best to put yourself in someones shoes, but it is a totally different experience what hes going to be doing,” Hoerner said. “The adjustment to college, even for myself, driving 45 minutes from where I grew up, was really different. Doing that with a language barrier, taking classes, and the whole schedule is a lot.
“In pro ball, youre in charge of your own career at the end of the day. But a lot of times in college, youre pretty much subject to whatever the program believes in. So I just felt it was really important to stress that whatever it is that makes him tick as a player, hed be able to continue to do that. Because not all college programs would really be (OK) with that. And I did feel like Stanford, with the staff that they have, are there for whatever the players need.”
Esquer knew what was at stake, even beyond adding a potential impact hitter. If Sasaki chose Stanford, it would enhance the universitys already prestigious international brand. And if Sasaki became the first arrival that breaks a dam, perhaps the pipeline of talent from Japan would lead directly to the Sunken Diamond.
Sasakis visit was thorough but not ostentatious. The team hired a taco truck to cater a post-practice party. Several players remarked that they saw Esquer wearing a suit for the first time. Mostly, Esquer hoped to convey that Sasaki would have every resource to develop as a player and person.
“My promise to you is that were going to take care of your son,” Esquer told Hiroshi Sasaki. “Were going to coach him and help him get better, but also were going to make sure hes well looked after.”
Beck laughed when he recalled his recruiting visit more than a decade ago. No taco trucks, no meetings with trustees, no coaches in suits. But he remembered one thing someone told him that might have resonated with an international celebrity like Sasaki.
“One of the adages I heard before I enrolled was, Dont worry about being bothered, because the most famous people here dont play sports at all,'” Beck said. “The most interesting people here arent even athletes, even with people like Andrew Luck walking around campus.
“He did mention his favorite team was the Giants, which is sweet. I made sure he said that a couple more times so Nico and Kris were sure to hear it.”
![](https://cdn.theathletic.com/app/uploads/2024/04/29221823/46157938_Rintaro-Sasaki_JPL_04112024_00052-scaled.jpg)
Sasaki was projected to be a top pick in the NBP draft after hitting a national record 140 home runs in high school. (Courtesy of Stanford Athletics)
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You might assume that Sasaki wants to become the next Ohtani. But theres another home run hitter that he has spent his life emulating.
“I dont know how far I can go, but I respect Barry Bonds a lot,” Sasaki said. “(To) one day get to be as close as possible to Barry Bonds — that is my goal.”
Bonds, and not Shohei?
“Ever since I was in elementary school, I was watching Barry Bonds,” Sasaki said. “Ohtani was one of my mentors. Sometimes I communicate with him and get advice. But Barry Bonds was my ultimate goal since I was little. Dont misunderstand. I respect Shohei and Barry Bonds both.
“When Bonds got in the batters box, people expected to see something big or something special. I want to be like that.”
> Rintaro Sasaki, my goodness.
>
> Wish we couldve seen this swing in NPB but Im confident hes going to blossom into a superstar. [pic.twitter.com/ifkODlbc2g](https://t.co/ifkODlbc2g)
>
> — Yakyu Cosmopolitan (@yakyucosmo) [April 30, 2024](https://twitter.com/yakyucosmo/status/1785342803008159893?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)
For now, Sasaki just wants to be a good teammate and fit in. He is taking a language skills class with other international students, but his other two courses, including an introductory class in human biology, are in English. He understands more than he can speak, but baseball tends to operate with its own universal language. When Yamada, the trainer, returned to Japan for a week, Sasaki appeared to manage just fine. If Sasaki gets stuck on a word, bullpen catcher Michael Fung, who is minoring in East Asian Studies and spent time last year studying in Stanfords overseas program in Kyoto, is usually able to help bridge any language gap.
Sasaki declined Esquers offer of a full-time interpreter, saying he would chip away at the language barrier faster with the help of his teammates.
“It fired us up to hear that,” said Lavin, who has become one of Sasakis more steady companions. “Because it seems hes really bought into the teams culture and being around us. Hes a normal teammate here. You cant tell from talking to him that hes super famous. He has not brought it up once, how many people know his name.”
Still, Sasaki is likely to draw crowds very soon. The word is just beginning to trickle out that he is on campus. At a recent game at Santa Clara University, two dozen Japanese baseball fans waited outside the ballpark so they could meet Sasaki and take pictures with him. Stanford officials are gearing up for more attention, more media and more fans.
For now, his competition is limited to those spirited intrasquad games. A couple of his teammates already feel comfortable enough to engage in a bit of sarcastic banter. And theyve learned that Sasaki is already comfortable enough to dish it right back.
“We were at Oregon State and Im watching him flick home runs the other way,” Lavin said. “So I said to him, Ah, its just the wind. Then the wind died down and he started hitting pull-side homers over the stands.
“And he looked at me and said, Its not the wind.'”
**The Athletic*****s Fabian Ardaya and Patrick Mooney contributed to this story.*** 
*(Top image: Sean Reilly /* The Athletic*; Photos: Courtesy of Stanford Athletics)*
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# Blinken Is Sitting on Staff Recommendations to Sanction Israeli Military Units Linked to Killings or Rapes
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A special State Department panel recommended months ago that Secretary of State Antony Blinken disqualify multiple Israeli military and police units from receiving U.S. aid after reviewing allegations that they committed serious human rights abuses.
But Blinken has failed to act on the proposal in the face of growing international criticism of the Israeli militarys conduct in Gaza, according to current and former State Department officials.
The incidents under review mostly took place in the West Bank and occurred before Hamas Oct. 7 attack on Israel. They include reports of extrajudicial killings by the Israeli Border Police; an incident in which a battalion gagged, handcuffed and left an elderly Palestinian American man for dead; and an allegation that interrogators tortured and raped a teenager who had been accused of throwing rocks and Molotov cocktails.
Recommendations for action against Israeli units were sent to Blinken in December, according to one person familiar with the memo. “Theyve been sitting in his briefcase since then,” another official said.
A State Department spokesperson told ProPublica the agency takes its commitment to uphold U.S. human rights laws seriously. “This process is one that demands a careful and full review,” the spokesperson said, “and the department undergoes a fact-specific investigation applying the same standards and procedures regardless of the country in question.”
The revelations about Blinkens failure to act on the recommendations come at a delicate moment in U.S.-Israel relations. Six months into its war against Hamas, whose militants massacred 1,200 Israelis and kidnapped 240 more on Oct. 7, the Israeli military has killed more than 33,000 Palestinians, according to local authorities. Recently, President Joe Biden has signaled increased frustration with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the widespread civilian casualties.
Multiple State Department officials who have worked on Israeli relations said that Blinkens inaction has undermined Bidens public criticism, sending a message to the Israelis that the administration was not willing to take serious steps.
The recommendations came from a special committee of State Department officials known as the Israel Leahy Vetting Forum. The panel, made up of Middle East and human rights experts, is named for former Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., the chief author of 1997 laws that require the U.S. to cut off assistance to any foreign military or law enforcement units — from battalions of soldiers to police stations — that are credibly accused of flagrant human rights violations.
The Guardian reported this year that [the State Department was reviewing](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/18/us-supply-weapons-israel-alleged-abuses-human-rights) several of the incidents but had not imposed sanctions because the U.S. government treats Israel with unusual deference. Officials told ProPublica that the panel ultimately recommended that the secretary of state take action.
This story is drawn from interviews with present and former State Department officials as well as government documents and emails obtained by ProPublica. The officials spoke on the condition of anonymity in order to discuss internal deliberations.
The Israeli government did not respond to a request for comment.
Over the years, hundreds of foreign units, including from Mexico, Colombia and Cambodia, have been blocked from receiving any new aid. Officials say enforcing the Leahy Laws can be a strong deterrent against human rights abuses.
Human rights organizations tracking Israels response to the Oct. 7 attacks have collected eyewitness testimony and videos posted by Israeli soldiers that point to widespread abuses in Gaza and the West Bank.
“If we had been applying Leahy effectively in Israel like we do in other countries, maybe you wouldnt have the IDF filming TikToks of their war crimes now because we have contributed to a culture of impunity,” said Josh Paul, a former director in the State Departments Bureau of Political-Military Affairs and a member of the vetting forum. Paul resigned in protest shortly after Israel began its bombing campaign of Gaza in October.
The Leahy Laws apply to countries that receive American-funded training or arms. In the decades after the passage of those laws, the State Department, under both Democratic and Republican administrations, followed a de facto policy of exempting billions of dollars of foreign military financing to Israel from their strictures, according to multiple experts on the region.
In 2020, Leahy and others in Congress passed a law to tighten the oversight. The State Department set up the vetting forum to identify Israeli security force units that shouldnt be receiving American assistance. Until now, it has been paralyzed by its bureaucracy, failing to fulfill the hopes of its sponsors.
Critics have long assailed what they view as Israels special treatment. Incidents that would have disqualified units in other countries did not have the same result in Israel, according to Charles Blaha, the former director of the State Departments Office of Security and Human Rights and a former participant in the Israeli vetting forum. “There is no political will,” he said.
Typically, the reports of wrongdoing come from nongovernment organizations like Human Rights Watch or from press accounts. The State Department officials determining whether to recommend sanctions generally do not draw on the vast array of classified material gathered by Americas intelligence agencies.
Actions against an Israeli unit are subject to additional layers of scrutiny. The forum is required to consult the government of Israel. Then, if the forum agrees that there is credible evidence of a human rights violation, the issue goes to more senior officials, including some of the departments top diplomats who oversee the Middle East and arms transfers. Then the recommendations can be sent to the secretary of state for final approval, either with consensus or as split decisions.
Even if Blinken were to approve the sanctions, officials said, Israel could blunt their impact. One approach would be for the country to buy American arms with its own funds and give them to the units that had been sanctioned. Officials said the symbolism of calling out Israeli units for misconduct would nonetheless be potent, marking a sign of disapproval of the civilian toll the war is taking.
Since it was formed in 2020, the forum has reviewed reports of multiple cases of rape and extrajudicial killings, according to the documents ProPublica obtained. Those cases also included several incidents where teenagers were reportedly beaten in custody before being released without charges. The State Department records obtained by ProPublica do not clearly indicate which cases the experts ultimately recommended for sanctions, and several have been tabled pending more information from the Israelis.
Israel generally argues it has addressed allegations of misconduct and human rights abuses through its own military discipline and legal systems. In some of the cases, the forum was satisfied that Israel had taken serious steps to punish the perpetrators.
But officials agreed on a number of human rights violations, including some that the Israeli government had not appeared to adequately address.
Among the allegations reviewed by the committee was the January 2021 arrest of a 15-year old boy by Israeli Border Police. The teen was held for five days at the Al-Mascobiyya detention center on charges that he had thrown stones and Molotov cocktails at security forces. Citing an allegation shared by a [Palestinian child welfare nonprofit](https://www.dci-palestine.org/israeli_interrogator_sexually_assaults_palestinian_child_detainee), forum officials said there was credible information the teen had been forced to confess after he was “subjected to both physical and sexual torture, including rape by an object.”
Two days after the State Department asked the Israeli government for information about what steps it had taken to hold the perpetrators accountable, Israeli police raided the nonprofit that had originally shared the allegation and later designated it a terrorist organization. The Israelis told State Department officials they had found no evidence of sexual assault or torture but reprimanded one of the teens interrogators for kicking a chair.
Do you have any information about American arms shipments to countries accused of human rights violations? Contact Brett Murphy at [\[email protected\]](https://www.propublica.org/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#c3a1b1a6a6b7edaeb6b1acb3abba83b3b1acb3b6a1afaaa0a2edacb1a4) or by Signal at 508-523-5195.
[Alex Mierjeski](https://www.propublica.org/people/alex-mierjeski) contributed reporting.
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# How Shifting U.S. Policies Led to One of the Deadliest Incidents Involving Immigrants in Mexicos History
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Stefan Arango, a 31-year-old Venezuelan husband and father, felt immediately nauseated by the smells of sweat, urine and feces when Mexican guards ordered him into the cinder block cell in the border city of Ciudad Juárez. The tile floor was strewn with trash, and several men inside lay on flimsy mats that were incongruously covered in rainbow-colored vinyl. The windows were so small that they didnt allow in much light or air. And, perhaps mercifully, they were so high that the men couldnt see they were just a short stroll from El Paso, Texas, the destination they had risked everything to reach.
It was March 27, 2023, and Arango had been detained by Mexican authorities who had agreed to help the United States slow the record numbers of migrants crossing the border. A guard allowed Arango to make a one-minute call to his younger sister, whod come to Juárez with him and whom hed left waiting at a budget hotel nearby. She sobbed, worried that he was going to be deported back to Venezuela.
“Dont cry, everything will be fine,” he assured her. “Whatever happens, dont go anywhere. Ill be back.”
He couldnt tell exactly how many men were inside the temporary detention center, maybe more than 100, but new detainees were being brought in while others were being taken away. Those milling around him were grumbling. They said they hadnt been given water for hours. They hadnt been given enough food. No one was giving them answers. Why were they being held? What was Mexico going to do with them?
At about 9:20 that night, some of the men began banging on the metal bars that ran along the front wall of the cell, demanding to be released. One of them reached up and yanked down a surveillance camera; another climbed the door and pulled down a second camera. Others started to pile the sleeping mats against the bars until they blocked the guards view.
At least one of them flicked a lighter. Within minutes, the cell was engulfed in flames and smoke. Arango pleaded with a guard: “Brother, dont leave us here.” But the guard turned his back, saying, “Good luck, dude,” as he fled.
Surveillance camera video taken from inside the detention center at the time of the fire shows the flames and smoke spreading through the cell as the guards scramble to open a side door before leaving the detainees trapped inside. Credit: Obtained by ProPublica and The Texas Tribune
Arango rushed to a bathroom, now filled with dozens of others, all screaming for help. He turned the shower on to wet his hoodie, thinking it would protect him from the heat. Then the lights went out. Everything stung — his eyes, his nose, his skin. He sat himself down and whispered a prayer. The detainees cries stopped, and he could hear the sounds of bodies hitting the floor.
When he opened his eyes, he was wrapped in a mylar blanket, lying in the parking lot amid rows of bodies. Arango pulled the cover off his face, gasped for air and raised his hand, hoping to be seen. He heard a womans voice shout, “Someone lives among the dead!”
Forty men were killed and more than two dozen were injured in one of the deadliest incidents involving immigrants in Mexicos history. Investigators put the blame for the incident on the migrants who set the blaze and the guards who failed to help them. The United States urged immigrants to take heed of the tragedy and pursue legal methods for entering the U.S., without acknowledging that some of those caught in the fire were attempting to do just that when they were detained. However, an examination by ProPublica and The Texas Tribune underscores that it was the foreseen and foreseeable result of landmark shifts in U.S. border policies over the last decade, by which the Trump and Biden administrations put the bulk of the responsibility for detaining and deterring staggering numbers of immigrants from around the world onto a Mexican government thats had trouble keeping its own people safe.
The bodies in the Juárez parking lot were not only evidence of the tragic consequences of U.S. policies, but they were also graphic representations of the violence and economic upheaval raging across the Americas. The dead had traveled there from Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Colombia and, like Arango, Venezuela. Over the past decade, growing numbers of people from these countries have traversed Mexico and crossed the U.S. border to file claims for asylum that take years to resolve and allow them to live and work in the United States during that time.
When first running for president, Donald Trump used the scale of the arrivals to jolt American politics, vowing to build a wall between the United States and Mexico. As president, he effectively turned Mexico into a wall, pressuring that countrys president to take unprecedented steps that required nearly everyone applying for asylum to wait there as their cases went through U.S. immigration courts. And citing the pandemic, he ordered border officials to quickly return immigrants to Mexico or to their home countries under a little-known section of the public health code — Title 42 — that allows the government to limit the numbers of people allowed into the country in an emergency.
Democrats denounced the measures as inhumane, and early in his presidency, Joe Biden moved to loosen those policies, only to keep versions of some when the rising numbers of migrants coming into the United States started to cause political repercussions for him and his party.
The result was chaos on both sides of the border, although as numerous experts had predicted, the worst of it unfolded in Mexico. Squalid tent encampments sprouted in Mexican border cities that didnt have sufficient shelters and other resources. Frustrations among migrants fueled protests that blocked major roads and bridges. Mexican officials cracked down harder by rounding up immigrants and packing them into already overcrowded detention centers.
A Biden administration official would not comment on the role U.S. policies played in the fire, except to say that it had taken place in a facility that “was not under the jurisdiction of the U.S. government.” A White House spokesperson expressed condolences to the families of those who died — but also didnt answer questions about the policies that contributed to the incident and are still in place. Instead, he pointed to the ways that Biden had expanded legal pathways for immigration, calling it the largest such effort in decades.
U.S. Rep. Raúl Grijalva, a Democrat from Arizona, was among many legislators whod warned Washington, and specifically Biden, that such a tragedy was inevitable. “The whole system in Mexico is partly a creation in response to initiatives that the United States began,” he said in an interview. “Thats why we should care, because we bear some responsibility.”
### How We Got Here
![](https://img.assets-d.propublica.org/v5/images/20230727-Ratje-Asylum-006_preview_maxWidth_3000_maxHeight_3000_ppi_72_embedColorProfile_true_quality_95.jpg?crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fm=webp&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&h=533&q=75&w=800&s=8e83f90c5c5afffc0d68322afe80a87f)
Immigrants, many from Venezuela, sleep by the entrance of an international bridge that separates Ciudad Juárez from El Paso, Texas, as local residents walk by. Some of them were waiting in the border city while trying to get an appointment to enter the U.S. using the government app CBP One. Credit: Paul Ratje for ProPublica and The Texas Tribune
The dangers of outsourcing immigration enforcement to Mexico were clear to experts and political leaders on both sides of the border long before the Juárez detention center erupted in flames.
“Mexico is simply not safe for Central American asylum seekers,” [wrote the union](https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/u-s-asylum-officers-say-trumps-remain-in-mexico-policy-is-threatening-migrants-lives-ask-federal-court-to-end-it/2019/06/26/863e9e9e-9852-11e9-8d0a-5edd7e2025b1_story.html) that represents the U.S. governments asylum officers as part of a lawsuit against Trumps “Remain in Mexico” program in 2019. “Despite professing a commitment to protecting the rights of people seeking asylum, the Mexican government has proven unable to provide this protection.”
Mexicos National Human Rights Commission reported that year that migrants were being held in filthy, overcrowded detention centers, at times without sufficient food and water. Those conditions, the commission said, were spurring immigrants to protest, including by setting fires. Prior to the fatal Juárez fire, at least 13 such incidents had occurred at detention facilities across the country, including at the one in Juárez. The earlier incident there occurred in the summer of 2019 and was started in a similar manner, when disgruntled migrants set their sleeping mats on fire. About 60 detainees escaped unharmed.
The Trump administration rejected the warnings, saying that the system was [clogged with meritless claims](https://twitter.com/HomelandKen/status/1144082007439355904) and that turning away people who didnt qualify for protection made it easier to address the needs of those who did. The Trump campaign didnt respond to questions about the impact of the former presidents policies, except to say it did a better job than Biden of keeping migrants safe by removing the incentives for them to make the journey to the border. In a statement, spokesperson Karoline Leavitt said that under a second Trump term, the message would be, “DO NOT COME. You will not be allowed to stay, and you will be promptly deported.”
Asylum is a thornier issue for Biden because of divisions within his own party, with some advocating for a more generous system and others worried that the existing backlog makes the system virtually impossible to fix. As a result, his presidency has been marked by moves aimed at placating both sides.
On his first day in office, Biden suspended Trumps “Remain in Mexico” policy — officially called the Migrant Protection Protocols — which hed said had “slammed the door shut in the face of families fleeing persecution and violence” and created humanitarian suffering in Mexico. And he began rolling back the Title 42 COVID-19 restrictions by exempting unaccompanied minors from the ban. All at once, a border that had nearly been shut to asylum seekers had a new opening at a time when historic numbers of immigrants were on the move globally. Among them were nearly eight million Venezuelans, fleeing an authoritarian government and a collapsed economy, in one of the largest displacements in the world.
The Pabón family is among the nearly 8 million Venezuelans who have fled their country over the last decade, constituting one of the largest population displacements in the world. This short documentary follows the family from Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, to their first months in the United States, where theyve asked for asylum and struggle to build new lives. Credit: Gerardo del Valle/ProPublica
Within weeks, the numbers of people attempting to cross the southern border reached levels that [hadnt been seen in decades](https://www.propublica.org/article/border-policy-is-getting-more-and-more-convoluted-thats-creating-false-hope-for-migrants). Biden reached out to Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador for help. After denouncing the conditions that migrant families had been forced to endure in Mexico, the Biden administration began pressuring that government to take them back. “Were trying to work out now with Mexico their willingness to take more of those families back,” Biden [said at a news conference](https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/03/25/remarks-by-president-biden-in-press-conference/), adding later, “I think were going to see that change. They should all be going back.”
On March 19, 2021, his administration announced the U.S. would send 2.5 million COVID-19 vaccines to Mexico. That same day, López Obrador declared that hed close Mexicos southern border to nonessential traffic, citing the pandemic.
Immigrants continued to come nonetheless. By the end of Bidens first year in office, the Border Patrol reported that encounters with immigrants had soared to 1.7 million, compared with 859,000 in 2019. The numbers rose further, to 2.2 million, in 2022, the year that Biden announced plans to lift Title 42 entirely. Republican governors in 24 states immediately filed suit against the administration to stop the move. And one of those governors, Greg Abbott, began sending busloads of people whod crossed the border into Texas to cities controlled by Democrats, including New York, Chicago and Denver.
Biden, faced with a political crisis on top of a humanitarian one, responded with an array of measures. While fighting to overturn Title 42 in court, his administration expanded its reach to allow U.S. officials to immediately expel to Mexico Venezuelan, Haitian, Cuban and Nicaraguan migrants. He required asylum seekers to use an app, CBP One, to make appointments for entry to the United States and authorized border officials to turn back those who hadnt done so. He also barred some people from seeking refuge in the U.S. if they didnt first apply for asylum in a country they passed through en route.
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President Joe Biden speaks with Border Patrol agents in El Paso, Texas, on Jan. 8, 2023. The visit followed an announcement by the administration to expand the use of Title 42 to include Cubans, Nicaraguans and Haitians. Credit: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters
In a nod to immigrant advocates, he paired that move with a program that allowed about 30,000 people from the countries that were newly affected by Title 42 to apply for temporary humanitarian visas from home, as long as they passed a background check and had a financial sponsor in the U.S. He also opened centers in some Latin American countries from which migrants could apply to come legally. But none of it seemed to have a lasting effect on making his party happy, deterring new migrants from arriving at the border or keeping them safe.
In January 2023, two months before the fire, nearly 80 Democrats in Congress, including Grijalva, wrote Biden a letter to say that they remained concerned.
“As the administration well knows, current conditions in Mexico — the primary transit country — cannot ensure safety for the families seeking refuge in the United States,” the letter read. “We urge the Biden Administration to engage quickly and meaningfully with members of Congress to find ways to adequately address migration to our southern border that do not include violating asylum law and our international obligations.”
Days before the fire, the Congressional Research Service echoed that warning, saying that the buildup of immigrants in Mexico had “strained Mexican government resources and placed migrants at risk of harm.”
Maureen Meyer, a vice president at the Washington Office on Latin America, said, “Theres an enormous human cost to prioritizing enforcement over human wellbeing and safety. The fire is probably one of the most egregious examples of what could happen.”
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Strips of paper bearing the names of the 40 men killed in the fire are tied with marigolds to the fence surrounding the immigration detention center where they died. Credit: Paul Ratje for ProPublica and The Texas Tribune
### A City on Edge
Arango had fled his country a decade ago because, he said, supporters of the countrys authoritarian President Nicolás Maduro had threatened him for campaigning on behalf of the opposition. He also found it impossible to make a living for himself and his two children on the roughly $40 he earned monthly as a soccer player and coach in Maracaibo, Venezuelas second-largest city. He initially moved to Colombia but left there after struggling to find gainful employment and moved again to Bolivia, where he met a woman whom he married.
In early 2023, Arango was still playing soccer, and there were signs his wife might be pregnant. Hed been hearing upbeat stories from Venezuelan friends who had migrated to the United States and were settling into new jobs. Because the United States had broken relations with the Maduro government, Venezuelans did not have to clear the same immigration hurdles as other nationals. They were largely shielded from deportation and had not been subjected to Title 42.
Arangos sister, Stefany, had a boyfriend whod made it across the border and gotten a construction job in Austin. Arango believed he could do the same.
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Stefan Arango, who survived the fatal fire, is among nearly eight million Venezuelans who have fled an authoritarian government and a collapsed economy in the past decade. Credit: Paul Ratje for ProPublica and The Texas Tribune
In about 36 grueling days — across hundreds of miles of inhospitable terrain — Arango and Stefany, 25, arrived in Juárez in mid-March 2023, riding on top of a cargo train. They found themselves in the middle of a city on edge. Juárez, with 1.5 million residents, had long been more of a way station for immigrants headed to the United States than a final destination. But the U.S. gateway that had been open to Venezuelans was now shut. They were subject to the same asylum restrictions as Central Americans. They couldnt cross the border without an appointment, and there were only about 80 appointments available each day through El Paso.
Juárezs shelters and hotels were filled beyond capacity, and thousands of migrants set up camps under bridges and along the banks of the Rio Grande. They crowded busy intersections and shopping districts, begging for food, money and work. Many complained that they had been robbed by Mexican criminal organizations and harassed by the police and immigration agents. The longer they stayed, the more frustrated they and the city struggling to accommodate them became.
The day Arango and his sister arrived, hundreds of migrants blocked one of the bridges that connected Juárez with El Paso and pleaded with U.S. officials to be let in. The United States deployed officers in riot gear and raised a curtain of concertina wire to keep them out, while Mexico used the national guard to disperse them on the other side. Juárez Mayor Cruz Pérez Cuéllar seemed to sum up his citys sentiment the next day. “The truth is that our patience is running low,” he said. “Weve reached a tipping point.”
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Migrants wait in Ciudad Juárez alongside a barbed-wire fence that separates the city from El Paso, Texas. Frustrated with the low numbers of people who can get appointments through the CBP One app, some of those stranded in border cities decide not to wait and instead turn themselves in to Border Patrol agents. Credit: Paul Ratje for ProPublica and The Texas Tribune
The city went on heightened alert and began putting more immigrants in detention. During the first three months of 2023, officials in Juárez conducted at least 110 sweeps around the city — almost as many as they had done in the entire previous year. On the day of the fire, Arango had left his sister at the hotel to look for work and buy food. He was with a handful of other immigrants walking near the border fence when they were picked up by Mexican immigration agents and taken to the citys only immigration detention facility.
Built in 1995, the facility sits on the banks of the Rio Grande, which forms the border between Mexico and the United States. The detention center was divided into two cells about 100 feet from each other. One was completely bare and was meant to hold no more than 80 men, while the other had bunk beds and could hold up to 25 women. Two former detainees said the mens cell had four toilets and as many showers.
Alis Santos López, a 42-year-old Honduran, had been held in the facility for two days by the time Arango arrived — and according to Mexican law, which called for him to be released after 36 hours, he shouldnt have been. Unlike Arango, he wasnt hoping to start a new life in the United States. He was trying to get back to the life hed already established. Santos had worked for 10 years as a roofer in New Jersey but was deported at the end of 2022 back to his native Honduras.
The economic hardships and violence that had pushed him to abandon his country before seemed to have worsened. The municipality where his family lived, Catacamas, was among the most violent in Honduras. When he and his wife discovered men lurking around their house one night, he thought theyd targeted him because hed come home with money that hed earned in the United States.
Within weeks, hed set out again for New Jersey, this time with his wife, Delmis Jiménez; three children; daughter-in-law; and grandson in tow. The group said they had been robbed and extorted throughout the journey and had run out of money in southern Mexico. Santos went on without them, promising that hed send for them. But Juárez officials at the local bus station intercepted him shortly after he arrived.
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Alex Santos Jiménez, 20, from Honduras, shows a photo of his father, Alis Santos López, who was detained by Mexican immigration officials at the bus station in Ciudad Juárez and taken to the immigration detention center two days before the deadly fire. Credit: Paul Ratje for ProPublica and The Texas Tribune
Rodolfo Collazo, then 52, was one of two federal immigration agents and three private security guards on duty at the facility on the night of the fire. Trained as a computer engineer, he was still relatively new to the job and had taken it because he couldnt find anything better in his field. It paid under $10,000 a year, but Collazo was able to cobble together enough to make ends meet by working a second job with a ride sharing company.
Records from Mexican prosecutors investigation into the fire, court testimony and interviews, including with officials who worked at the detention facility, indicate that it was woefully ill equipped to hold immigrants for long periods. Not only were there insufficient accommodations for the detainees to eat and sleep, the cell lacked basic safety equipment like working fire extinguishers and smoke detectors and had no emergency exits. Scuffles and hunger strikes among detainees were not uncommon.
About 6 feet tall, with salt-and-pepper hair, Collazo was sometimes torn between his sympathy with the immigrants plight and the responsibilities of his job. Theyd sometimes complain that theyd run out of basic supplies like soap and shampoo, and hed go out and buy them when he had a little extra money. On the night of the fire, he noticed that the detainees seemed more agitated than normal, and he tried to make small talk to calm them. But he was summoned away from the facility to transport a couple of Salvadoran children — brothers ages 10 and 14 — to a different facility for minors.
When he returned about half an hour later, thick black smoke was already billowing out of the building. The guards were scrambling outside and told him they couldnt find the keys to the mens cell. Collazo ran into the building but felt his eyes sting and his lungs fill with smoke. “Ive never felt anything like it,” he said. “It was horrible.” Barely able to see or breathe, he turned back around. (In a surveillance camera video taken from inside the detention center at the time of the fire, which was made public as part of [an investigation by La Verdad, El Paso Matters and Lighthouse Reports](https://elpasomatters.org/2024/03/19/juarez-migrant-detention-center-fire-investigation-anniversary/), an agent is heard saying that she had told the detainees she was not going to open the cell.)
Firefighters descended on the scene and managed to fight through the flames, break into the holding cell and attempt to rescue those inside. Paramedics rushed to care for those who were unconscious. The dead, including Santos, were laid together in four neat rows on the cold asphalt outside the building.
A Mexican soldier saw one of the bodies move. It was Arango.
### Uncertain Future
To mark the first anniversary of the fire, there was a march in downtown El Paso. Across the border in Juárez, residents hung mylar blankets on the fence surrounding the detention facility to honor each of the immigrants who died there and celebrated a special Mass at Our Lady of Guadalupe Cathedral. “Its a tremendous tragedy,” El Paso Bishop Mark Seitz said, citing the loss of “40 young, aspiring lives.” But the greater tragedy, he said, would be to “forget the persons and families that continue to suffer.”
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The names of the migrants killed in the 2023 fire, including Alis Santos López, are written on mylar blankets on the fence surrounding the detention center that burned to mark the one-year anniversary of the incident. Credit: Paul Ratje for ProPublica and The Texas Tribune
By then, the Mexican government had closed the Juárez facility and temporarily suspended operations at 33 others across the country. The head of Mexicos National Migration Institute, which enforces the countrys immigration laws, was charged criminally with failure to perform his duties, although he remains free and on the job. The institute didnt respond to requests for comment. Agency officials have previously defended their treatment of immigrants in their custody.
The “Remain in Mexico” policy and Title 42 have been lifted, but Mexico still stands as a critical arm of U.S. immigration enforcement. With poll after poll showing that Americans consider securing the border a priority as the country prepares for this years presidential elections, the Biden administration continues to require asylum seekers to use an app to gain entry to the United States. Its also fighting in court to be allowed to bar some people from seeking asylum if they hadnt asked for refuge in countries they passed through en route to the United States. That rule is significant because nearly every asylum applicant has crossed through another country — especially Mexico — before reaching the U.S.
Stephanie Leutert, an immigration expert and former Biden administration official, said shes not surprised that the fire hasnt forced the administration to reverse course. “If migrant deaths would lead to policy change, we would have changed policies a long time ago," she said.
Seitz, who advocates for immigrants, lamented the same thing. “I wonder how many deaths its going to take,” he said in an interview. “Will there be a time when our country wakes up? What will it take for us to recognize that we need to head on a different course?”
Meanwhile, the repercussions of those policies continue to play out in the lives of those affected by the fire.
At a federal prison about 10 miles from where he once worked, Collazo is now the one behind bars, along with two Venezuelan immigrants and several of his former co-workers. Hes awaiting trial for involuntary manslaughter and causing injury to 67 men for his role in the fire. He says he is not guilty. If convicted, he could spend the rest of his life in prison. His wife, María Trujillo, and children have sold their cars and borrowed money to pay his legal fees, which so far exceed $50,000. Trujillo, 53, has begun cleaning houses and selling tamales. Meanwhile, his daughter, Tania Collazo, 35, works extra shifts at a local hospital as a medical assistant. She even traveled to Mexico City last year to appeal for help from López Obrador.
Because they have so little faith in the system, they often do some of the investigating themselves by speaking to other former officials and detainees who might have information that could help Rodolfo Collazos case.
“Every day I fall asleep and wake up with the agony of what if the system fails again,” Tania Collazo said. “Hes never getting out.”
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First image: Mexican immigration agent Rodolfo Collazos wife, María Trujillo, left, and his daughter Tania Collazo say they try to stay positive, but the longer hes behind bars, the harder it is to remain hopeful. Second image: A photo of Rodolfo Collazo sits atop a table at their home in Ciudad Juárez. Credit: Paul Ratje for ProPublica and The Texas Tribune
Arango spent about three weeks in an induced coma in a hospital in Mexico City after a respiratory arrest. Hed suffered carbon monoxide poisoning and severe damage to his lungs, kidneys and throat. During his monthslong recovery, his moods were as erratic as a ride on a roller coaster — giddy one moment to be alive, distraught to the point of trying to put his fist through a wall when the doctor laid out the complicated medical challenges that stood in the way of his recovery while his wife struggled back in Bolivia on her own. A devastating low point for both of them came when she miscarried their baby, a boy, while Arango was hospitalized.
In September of last year, the Biden administration allowed Arango and his wife, along with others who survived the fire, to enter the United States for humanitarian reasons. The couple traveled by bus to Austin. His sister had already made it there. When Arango, tall and slim, saw her, he smiled and wrapped her in a long, tight hug.
While he said he is thankful to be alive, there are still times he falls into a deep depression. “Im still working on finding myself again,” he said. “I ask God for time to get back to the Stefan I was before. A better Stefan.”
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Arango looks back to Mexico one last time before he crosses into the United States. Arango, along with his wife and others who survived the fire, were granted permission to enter the United States for humanitarian reasons. Credit: Paul Ratje for ProPublica and The Texas Tribune
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First image: Arango places his hands on a Bible he traveled with through seven countries and the Darién Gap, a stretch of jungle between Panama and Colombia. As the smoke and flames spread through the cell inside the detention center, Arango said, he fell to the floor and prayed. Second image: Arango and his wife, Patricia Moyano, from Bolivia, send voice messages to friends while waiting inside the Greyhound bus terminal in El Paso before traveling to Austin. Credit: Paul Ratje for ProPublica and The Texas Tribune
Jiménez didnt know her husband had died in the fire until three days after, on her birthday. Santos body was sent back to Honduras. His family had returned from southern Mexico to receive it and bury him near their home in Catacamas. Jiménez picked a silver-colored coffin and wore a T-shirt with, “You will always live in my heart,” emblazoned on the front.
“All this suffering,” she thought during the ceremony. “For what?”
His death, however, didnt deter her and her family from leaving Honduras again. She knew there was a chance that they might meet the same fate trying to get to the United States, but she said she felt even less safe staying in Honduras. So the family set out again, riding buses and walking along railroad tracks, trying to get an appointment through the CBP One app, not understanding they had to be in northern or central Mexico in order to use it. Their feet blistered and their bodies covered with bug bites, they slept in abandoned buildings or on the porches of people who took pity on their plight.
A Mexican nonprofit sent them money for bus tickets to Mexico City, where they continued trying their luck on CBP One. Eventually, after a month, they got an appointment, for last November, the day before Thanksgiving. And they were off to Juárez.
Jiménez, her long black hair tied back in a ponytail, stood atop the dividing line between Juárez and El Paso with her children and grandson. Her small frame tipped back under the weight of her backpack stuffed with clothes and some of her most precious possessions: their wedding rings, a silver watch Santos gave her for Mothers Day and a framed picture of him. As she walked into the United States, she couldnt get over how close hed come.
“It was really just steps for him to fulfill his dreams.”
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Delmis Jiménez stands on top of the international bridge that divides Ciudad Juárez and El Paso as her family waits for U.S. customs officers to allow them into the United States. Her husband died attempting to reach the U.S. eight months earlier. Credit: Paul Ratje for ProPublica and The Texas Tribune
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# How a Miami Students Package Scam Came Crashing Down
## The Package King of Miami
## Matthew Bergwall was a gifted coder who could have gotten a job at any tech company. He decided to go in another direction.
It was unclear to his friends how Matthew Bergwall had money for this trip to Dubai, from which he posted several pictures to Instagram. He captioned this one “Eventful finals week.” Photo: Matthew Bergwall/Instagram
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It was the summer of 2023, and Matt Bergwall, a skinny 21-year-old University of Miami student, was lounging in an infinity pool in Dubai. Beside him was his girlfriend, a blonde Zeta Tau Alpha. The silver Cuban link chain on his wrist glistened as he held his phone high to snap a selfie, the citys artificial palm-shaped islands splayed out along the horizon beneath them. Over the next few days, they swam in the pool and posed on their hotel balcony, posting a steady stream of pictures to Instagram. In one, he leans back on the edge of the pool, finger to the sky. “Eventful finals week,” he captioned it.
None of Bergwalls friends at school had a firm grasp of how the sophomore — a self-styled fintech whiz, Marc Andreessen with a zoomer perm — had money for the Tesla he drove or the Gucci he wore or, for that matter, the room in Dubai. But who could care when Bergwall was ordering everyone Ubers and paying for tables at nightclubs and pitching in for yachts on Biscayne Bay? When he had the ear of venture capitalists at networking events in Brickell, Miamis finance district? Okay, yes, his life had seemingly been enhanced exponentially, improbably, over the past year and a half — but wasnt everything sort of improbable at UMiami? Wasnt this the very place where Alix Earle had, by the end of her junior year, gained millions of followers for her “Get Ready With Me” videos? Where fraternity parking lots were filled with Lamborghinis and pledge classes with the children of billionaires who drove them?
One day several months later, Bergwalls friends were hanging out on campus when the question they werent asking was accidentally answered via a text from a young womans father. A UMiami student had been charged with orchestrating a cyberscam that allegedly cost retailers millions of dollars, he wrote her, and was facing up to 45 years in prison. “We looked at each other and were like, Oh my gosh, what if its Matt?’” she told me. “And then we opened the article and it actually was.”
It takes a lot to keep up at UMiami, where students often spend their weekends buying tables at clubs and partying on yachts. Photo: Matthew Bergwall/Instagram
Bergwall grew up in Darien, Connecticut, in a house not far from the leafy Woodland Park Nature Preserve. His father was a successful real-estate executive and his mother a VP of training and development at Chase. He was a quiet, smart child who was constantly on his computer. In middle school, that meant hours and hours sucked into the freewheeling virtual world of *Minecraft.*
Like any kid born after 2000, and especially a kid who enjoyed building custom gaming servers for his friends in his spare time, Bergwall spent his teen years observing the rise of a specific kind of demigod — from Satoshi Nakamoto to the market-moving mobs of [r/WallStreetBets](https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/) to [Sam Bankman-Fried](https://nymag.com/tags/sam-bankman-fried/), the world seemed to belong to whoever could articulate the most absurd vision of how to finance it. Low interest rates fueled precipitous valuations, minting fortunes on laughable balance sheets. [Crypto](https://nymag.com/tags/cryptocurrency/) alchemy transmuted monkey [NFTs](https://nymag.com/tags/nfts/) into mansions. Bergwalls own entrepreneurial streak first manifested in the hallways of Darien High, where former classmates say he sold vapes, an easy hustle at a time when school bathrooms were overflowing with kids hitting their mango-flavored Juuls between classes. On Instagram, he carved out a sideline buying accounts, growing their followings artificially, and selling them online. He soon moved on to freelance software engineering, building a website for an online community of *Grand Theft Auto* players. Bergwalls friends were impressed but a little unnerved by how he used his skill for software engineering. Former classmates said he would install files on school computers that would crash them, that hed hack into security cameras; there were rumors that he had changed his friends grades. When it started to seem like he might get in trouble for selling his peers access to discounted Spotify Premium accounts, his friends said, they “were able to convince him, like, Hey, man, this probably isnt the hill to die on,’” one told me. That friend said that when Bergwall boasted about his exploits, he tended to focus less on the money and more on “how cool it was that he was doing something vigilante.” Of course, the money was cool too. When Bergwall hosted a party, he would often buy alcohol for everyone. Per the friend, “It was clearly all coming from his own pocket.”
His senior year, he got a 40-hour-a-week job at Mirador, a financial-services company in town, at which hed interned the summer before. This meant that in addition to his regular high-school course load, saxophone practice, and running sound for the school auditorium, he was spending his nights and weekends consulting on genuinely professional software projects. He described the role on LinkedIn as “truly a full stack project, managing design, development, and project management.”
Given his résumé, some of his friends expected him to go to an Ivy. Instead, he enrolled at UMiami, where he planned to double major in computer science and management. But in December 2019, halfway through Bergwalls senior year, his father died of cancer. Devastated — “I do not know how I will move on from this. Right now I feel like I will never move on,” he wrote on Instagram — Bergwall decided to take a gap year and focus on making more money. He stayed on at Mirador and added a second job at a Boston-based crypto start-up called Flipside. In October 2020, he went on a podcast called *Dharma Unfiltered,* hosted by UMiami student Reed Kastner-Lang. Bergwall had yet to matriculate; he and Kastner-Lang found each other in a Snapchat group for incoming freshmen with an interest in entrepreneurship. “Youve tasted a lot of different things within the computer-science industry,” Kastner-Lang said to Bergwall. “Down the road, what do you see yourself doing?” Bergwall explained that, actually, his thinking had shifted lately. He once dreamed of working as a software engineer at Google. Now, “I dont want to be a slave for Google,” he said. “I want to build something. I want to run something.” When his gap year ended, he quit Mirador, reduced his hours at Flipside, and moved to Miami to begin in-person classes in the spring of 2021.
No one really knew how he had the money for the matte-gray Tesla, either. Photo: Matthew Bergwall/Instagram
By the time he arrived, Miami had already taken its place as a haven for a particular flavor of techno-optimist capitalist: libertarians, crypto bulls, and OnlyFans agencies. The city promised a launching pad for a gifted young software engineer to step off the traditional career track — the kind of thing expected in stuffy, old-money Darien — into a lifestyle on the bleeding edge of the new-money grind-set. Bergwall was not alone among his classmates in idealizing this. The campus is overrun with wannabe digital players, several students told me. Everyone is an influencer; everyone is launching a brand. Only months after she graduated in 2023, Earle established the Alix Earle Scholarship for any other “aspiring entrepreneur” with the “ambition to be a changemaker in the world of business.” (The application asks for a two-minute video answering the questions “What impact would this scholarship have on your educational and career goals?” and “Why is it important to you to be a student at the University of Miami?”)
“A lot of kids come to Miami and try to emulate the lifestyle,” said Jesse Fromer, a recent graduate who grew up in South Florida. He said he sees the schools culture as downstream from the ostentatious flexing of the citys most visible residents — club promoters, influencers, VC bros. The cars are more than likely rented, the jewelry fake. “But if youre not from here, its hard to tell whats real and whats fugazi,” said Fromer. Adding to the pressure are the expenses of the social life and keeping up appearances: While young women typically dont pay covers for nightclubs and boat parties, young men are often expected to buy tables and rent boats for thousands of dollars a weekend. The status anxiety on campus is acute, Fromer said, because of how ostentatiously rich the upper crust of the student body is. Like Bergwall, many students come from Northeast suburbs where they might have gone to private schools and thought of themselves as wealthy. But the richest students at UMiami are a different breed — trust-funders released from any sort of East Coast stealth-wealth sensibility.
When Bergwall moved to a campus dorm, he fell in with a group of friends in his building. Bergwall was a year older, given his gap year, and struck them as suave and intelligent. “He seemed put together,” said one. While many of the guys in the group projected machismo, Bergwall displayed a sensitive side. He let a female friend in his building teach him how to take care of his curly hair.
Bergwall was also quick to embrace the Miami party life. His friend posted a picture of him, a year into his time in college, lounging in a hot tub on a yacht, shirtless in sunglasses and drinking from a red Solo cup. (He captioned it, “Boat fit for a Bond villain.” Bergwall commented back, “sometimes you need to play the part.”) As the months went by, he started dressing flashier, leaving behind the preppy button-ups of his New England youth. He motored around campus on an electric skateboard and told classmates hed bought a matte-gray Tesla, which he started posing with on Instagram.
He leaned way into a tech-guru persona, describing himself on LinkedIn as “Serial Entrepreneur|Venture Capital Catalyst|Igniting Innovation & Growth.” During a business-class lecture in which the professor asked students not to use their laptops, Bergwall “would be the only one with it out,” Fromer said. “Like, Sorry, Professor, its for work.’” Work, ostensibly, was his new venture fund, EJB Investments. After class, hed go to networking events for VCs and founders in the sleek high-rises of Brickell. At these, according to a friend, hed talk up the fund, adopting a hyperconfident online business jargon and claiming that he managed more than $1 million in assets. “Ive been an entrepreneur since my early days. Ive always been passionate about building technology that didnt exist yet and finding new ways to solve complex problems,” he wrote on LinkedIn. Over the course of his freshman year, he told friends that the firm had invested in several local companies, including a beverage-ordering app and a concert-promotion business; it also launched an NFT project called Skeletal Cats. By his sophomore year, Bergwall had become the kind of guy who could walk up to the hottest clubs near campus and skip the line because he knew the bouncer. “He was just crazy connected. Like, it seemed like he knew everyone and that if you worked with him or were friends with him, you would have a great time and you would be in his circle and, like, you would be successful,” said a student who was in a fraternity with one of Bergwalls friends. On Instagram, he posted pictures of himself dripped out in a Gucci belt, a Stone Island pendant, and a $41,000 Rolex President Day Date. Toward the end of his sophomore year, he started taking his girlfriend on lavish trips: Dubai in the summer of 2023, then Tulum. High-school friends watching on Instagram couldnt believe his glow-up: “For this wannabe Ken doll to pop out of nowhere, it was shocking,” one said. “People were like, Where the hell is he getting all this money from?’” One student who worked at a finance firm was skeptical of what Bergwall told him: that the money came from his VC firms investments paying off. “In VC world, it takes about three-to-five years to exit,” he told me. “And he launched it, like, nine months before he met me. So I was like, How are these making you money right now?’”
He seemed to like showing off his travel, especially when he was with his sorority girlfriend. After Dubai, they went to Tulum, where they also posed in pools overlooking the ocean and on mopeds. Photo: Matthew Bergwall/Instagram
A few months ago, I bought a $60 toaster on Amazon that just would not heat up enough to toast bread. I wanted my money back. But repackaging the toaster and dropping it off at a post office seemed like too much of a hassle. So I did something slightly nefarious: I logged on to Amazon, opened the customer-service chat window, and told the outsourced worker on the other end that my toaster had never arrived. The agent apologized, asked zero follow-up questions, and immediately refunded me $60. I had committed a common, low-grade version of a type of fraud that has proliferated in recent years as massive online retailers flood the world with packages and offer customers frictionless returns. Often referred to simply as refunding, it involves finding ways to get money back for products people have not actually returned. A lot of refunding is perpetrated by sophisticated cybercriminals who trick retailers and shipping companies at scale, obtaining high-value products in bulk and reselling them online to customers who want watches, computers, or other expensive items for cheap. According to a December 2023 report from the National Retail Federation, retailers lost $101 billion from return fraud last year.
Refunding first emerged alongside the early-2010s explosion in online retail and typically involved simple methods like buying items and claiming they never arrived (like my toaster). But as companies caught on, tactics evolved. In 2019, a fraudster who went by Bob published *Bobs Refunding eBook,* which collected a number of methods that had been circulating on hacker forums and other underworld sites. (Nowadays, such tips circulate mostly on Telegram, the anonymous chat app on which much contemporary fraud is coordinated. The community is crass, like 4chan refitted for the zoomer mind: Refunding chat rooms with thousands of members host a flood of racist memes, slurs, cat GIFs, and extreme porn mixed in with advice on fraud methods.) Bob is credited in fraud circles with popularizing FTID — Fake Tracking ID, wherein the scammer returns an empty box to a retailer but edits the shipping label provided by the company to an address that is slightly different from the warehouse where returns are meant to go. The package gets scanned by, say, UPS when its picked up, allowing the customer to claim a refund, but it will never arrive at its destination.
There are other FTID methods. One involves writing addresses in special dissolving ink, which is legible when the package is picked up and scanned by the delivery company but invisible by the time it arrives at its destination; the courier on that end is unable to deliver the empty box, allowing the customer to claim a refund. The gold-standard method is whats known as “insider” — scammer slang for compromised retail- or shipping-company-employee accounts that allow the scammer to directly submit false information about a package. Scammers can contact insiders either by bribing logistics employees or hacking their computers. But recently, as refunding has become more popular, insiders have started to reach out directly to fraudsters on Telegram, offering back-end access to the companies at which they work in exchange for a cut of the scheme. However theyre come by, having an insider allows the scammer to skip the more irritating steps of the scam — shipping empty boxes or Photoshopping false labels — and simply input a scan of a box that doesnt exist, then change its status from “In transit” to, say, “An emergency situation or severe weather condition has delayed delivery.” Voilà — the scammer can demand a refund. Fraudsters are constantly testing retailers to see how much they can get away with buying without sparking an investigation. But still, many investigations into refunding operations are currently underway, in part thanks to a former cybercrime fraudster turned FBI consultant named Brett Johnson.
In 2022, at one of his regular check-ins with FBI agents in Alabama, Johnson mentioned the surge in refunding fraud hed begun seeing on Telegram. The agents were intrigued. The sheer volume of the crime, and the brazenness with which its practitioners were discussing it, opened up a potential enforcement gold mine. “They see that, *Well, shit, its pretty easy to identify these guys,*” Johnson told me. “Operational security is very low. They talk too much: They post screenshots of actual orders, they share drop addresses, real names — things like that.” The agents began trawling through the underbelly of the fraud internet, identifying major players. According to Johnson, their list eventually grew to more than 300 people, including Matt Bergwall.
Another picture from Dubai, captioned “desert king.” The posts from this trip made his high-school friends, in particular, take notice of his lifestyle. Photo: Matthew Bergwall/Instagram
Bergwalls alleged refunding operation was fairly sophisticated. When his indictment was unsealed on November 9, it revealed hed allegedly facilitated nearly 10,000 fraudulent returns between December 2021 and April 2022, which “resulted in more than $3.5 million in lost product and sales revenue to victim-retailers.” (More recent court filings list the total value at $5 million.) The indictment also alleged that Bergwall got high on his own supply, so to speak: He refunded a number of products for himself, including a “$41,000 Rolex President Day-Date watch, a $600 TeamGee H20 Electric Skateboard, a $350 Samsung 43-inch Smart UHD TV, and an $80 pair of Reebok shoes.” His alleged operation, called UPSNow, was run, like most refunding operations, on Telegram, where he went by the pseudonym MXB and worked alongside a number of unindicted co-conspirators. He specialized in FTID with a powerful edge: The government claims that Bergwall hacked into five employees back-end accounts at “a multinational shipping, receiving, and supply chain management company” confirmed by sources to be UPS.
An archive of the UPSNow Telegram channel shows the complexity of running a business like his. “Our infrastructure is that of a legitimate company,” MXB bragged in the channel. “We have 8 full time employees and have the ability to scale.” Still, there were challenges. Primarily that his customers seemed to be young scammers themselves — and could be incredibly demanding when it came to updates on their orders. Over time, they seemed to drive MXB up a wall. “I want to apologize for snapping at you guys, but please realize what is on our plate right now. We do not have the time to be asked yo ETA on scans? or r scans online?’” MXB posted in the channel in March 2022. “So, we will be continuing to be assholes to those who deserve it. Customer service skills are out the window until our service gets resolved. Sorry. Not here to make friends.” Or: “Oops i just woke up, late night at the clubs, will be going thru dms shortly.” MXB often seemed overwhelmed — not surprising given that he was allegedly overseeing a multimillion-dollar fraud ring while juggling school, VC networking, and a highly active social life. “Yall mfs start assuming shits patched sooo fast,” he wrote on March 7, 2022, when customers were complaining about delays in service. (By “patched,” he meant UPS cutting off his insider access.) “Shit aint patched trust me id tell you if it was. give me a sec to finish giving the UPS ceo a handjob so we can get it back up and running.” A few minutes later: “wishing i was the ceo of ups 😔.”
Three days later, he posted a long message. “I have an unfortunate announcement to make. UPS has started to catch on to our little scheme here,” he wrote, urging patience. “If people freak out like they did last time claiming the world was burning, I wont be as transparent with you guys. We are the ONLY service currently up and running for UPS instant scans. There is quite literally NO alternative for you guys to go to, so just be patient.” He continued, “We are fighting a company with hundreds of employees whose sole purpose is to prevent the fraud we are doing.” Later, he reminded everyone, “Working against a billion dollar company is quite the hard thing to do.” He signed it “mxb .”
Eventually, the stress caught up to him. “im literally going to scream,” he wrote on March 29. On April 3, a post in the channel announced “the acquisition of UPSNow” by another fraud company called iFruit Services. Seemingly unable to deal with everything on his plate, MXB sold his black-market company and left the business. It was a year and a half before his arrest.
One of Bergwalls closest college friends had kept in touch with him in the months following the indictment. “Im obviously concerned, as I would be for anyone else. You know, make sure hes doing all right, check in where I can,” he said. He kept conversations casual: “Just shoot the shit, you know, be boys, and try to make the time go by, be as normal as you can be, as it was prior.” According to Fromer, the recent graduate who had a class with Bergwall, students were generally impressed by his entrepreneurial moxie. Fromer summarized the reaction as: “So yeah, hes a scammer, but good for him.” He added, “This type of fraud, at that high of a level, obviously would have come from UM.”
On Telegram, the reaction was less sympathetic. “Looks like twerp,” one user wrote in a fraud channel with a screenshot of Bergwalls LinkedIn profile picture. “Timmy turner ass.” Another user posted a meme of a stick figure standing in the corner of a party Photoshopped with Bergwalls face, captioned “THEY DONT KNOW I HACKED UPS.”
Posters speculated on how hed gotten himself arrested: “Im betting that $40k watch got him some attention too. SMH🙈,” one wrote. “Damn I finessed 4 of those same TeamGee H20s,” posted another. Everyone seemed to be wondering who might be next: “After bergwall got clipped they lookin prolly in every chat,” one wrote. “More than 200 feds in here.”
That poster is broadly right. Soon after Bergwalls arrest, the FBI announced a major anti-refunding sweep called Operation Chargeback and indicted the members of several large refunding crews. And in December, Amazon filed a lawsuit against one in particular, called REKK. The suit, which named more than 20 people, accused REKK of marketing itself on Telegram as a service “offering fraudulent refunds to individuals around the world.” It also claimed that REKK paid thousands of dollars in bribes to seven Amazon “insiders” to help them process refunds.
According to one person I spoke to, Amazon was one of the companies allegedly defrauded by Bergwall, and it supplied information to investigators to help corroborate their findings. (While court filings dont list any of his targets, more advanced refunders like Bergwall tend to go after places like the Home Depot, Nike, and, yes, Amazon — large international companies, with customer-friendly return policies, selling items with a high resale value.) When I reached out to Amazon for comment, its vice-president of business conduct and ethics offered me this: The company is addressing this issue “head-on” through “the development of tools that use machine learning models to proactively detect and prevent fraud.” Plus, the VP told me, Amazon is turning people in whenever it can. “When bad actors attempt to evade our controls, we take action and work with law enforcement to hold them accountable.” The problem for it is these “bad actors” dont seem to care much. “They immediately reoffend the moment they can get out on bail,” said Allison Nixon, chief research officer at the cybersecurity firm Unit 221B, who has investigated young cybercriminals. Nixon said she understood the popularity of refunding and similar scams within the larger “make money online” ecosystem, popularized by people like Andrew Tate. These young scammers are, to her mind, looking at their lives and making a fairly rational set of economic calculations. Bergwall is not the only one who doesnt want to be a “slave for Google.” Google laid off 12,000 people last year. AI is rapidly rendering these once-valuable jobs useless. And sitting at a desk coding all day can start to seem kind of ridiculous when — with the right skill set and some daring — there are so many different ways to *avoid* sitting at a desk coding all day. And make much more money.
Bergwall has pleaded not guilty. Although he hasnt been a student at UMiami since spring 2023, according to the school, he seems to be living like everything is copacetic, going to nightclubs with college buddies and recently popping up in a friends photo at Ultra Music Festival, a Miami EDM fest. His girlfriend (now ex) told sorority sisters after he was arrested that she expected everything to get sorted out. Which might still happen. In December, he was granted permission by the judge to leave Florida to visit his family in Connecticut for the holidays. Johnson, the former fraudster, believes that such lenient treatment is a sign of a cooperation agreement. “So far, the numbers of those refunders choosing not to cooperate can be counted on one hand,” he said.
And then theres Bergwalls public activity on the coding website GitHub, where I have watched him in recent weeks posting regular updates to a project titled “Telegram-monorepo.” This appears to be an AI bot designed to trawl Telegram for information. Buried in the code is a list of scam-affiliated keywords the bot seems to be hunting for. (For instance: *logs, ftid, scans, refund, refunds, flights, uber, airbnb, rental.*) In other words, Bergwall has built a tool to scour Telegram for people committing some of the very crimes hes currently facing charges for and denying participation in. The existence of the tool raises the possibility that hes working with the FBI to identify new targets as part of a cooperation agreement, though his lawyer declined to comment on this and the project was scrubbed the day after I asked about it. (His lawyer also declined to comment when I asked if the case would go to trial. He did say that several claims in this story were inaccurate but declined to specify which.)
Even without Bergwall, refunding rolls on. Recently, I messaged iFruitVouches, an account seemingly affiliated with the one MXB sold his channel to. I asked if the company still offered refunding services. “Yes I do Ups insider scan,” it replied minutes later. “Im always available.”
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###### THE SURVIVOR SPECIES
## Having lost many of their cattle, traditional herders are trying out a milk-producing animal that is more resilient to climate change
Having lost many of their cattle, traditional herders are trying out a milk-producing animal that is more resilient to climate change
Photos and video by Malin Fezehai
April 17, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.
## How climate change is turning camels into the new cows
NTEPES, Kenya
## How climate change is turning camels into the new cows
The camels had thump-thumped for seven days across northern Kenya, ushered by police reservists, winding at last toward their destination: less a village than a dusty clearing in the scrub, a place where something big was happening. People had walked for miles to be there. Soon the governor pulled up in his SUV. Women danced, and an emcee raised his hands to the sky. When the crowd gathered around an enclosure holding the camels, one man said he was looking at “the future.”
## How climate change is turning camels into the new cows
The camels had arrived to replace the cows.
## How climate change is turning camels into the new cows
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Samburu Countys governor says that the climate patterns have become “abnormal.” The reduction in rainfall is so obvious, he said, that anybody can see it. “You dont need science machines here to measure that.”
## How climate change is turning camels into the new cows
Cows, here and across much of Africa, have been the most important animal for eons — the foundation of economies, diets, traditions.
## How climate change is turning camels into the new cows
But now grazable land is shrinking. Water sources are drying up. A three-year drought in the Horn of Africa that ended last year killed 80 percent of the cows in this part of Kenya and shattered the livelihoods of so many people.
## How climate change is turning camels into the new cows
In this region with the thinnest of margins, millions are being forced to adapt to climate change — including those who were now drawing numbers from a hat, each corresponding to one of the 77 camels that had just arrived in Samburu County.
## How climate change is turning camels into the new cows
“Your number?” a village chief, James Lelemusi, asked the first person to draw.
## How climate change is turning camels into the new cows
## How climate change is turning camels into the new cows
The regional government had purchased the camels from traders near the border with Somalia, at $600 per head. So far 4,000 camels, as part of that program, have been distributed across the lowlands of the county, speeding up a shift that had already been happening for decades across several other cattle-dependent parts of Africa. A handful of communities, particularly in Kenya and Ethiopia, are in various stages of the transition, according to academic studies.
## How climate change is turning camels into the new cows
The global camel population has doubled over the last 20 years, something the U.N. agency for agriculture and investment attributes partly to the animals suitability amid climate change. In times of hardship, camels produce more milk than cows.
## How climate change is turning camels into the new cows
Many cite an adage: The cow is the first animal to die in a drought; the camel is the last.
## How climate change is turning camels into the new cows
“If there was no climate change, we would not even bother to buy these camels,” said Jonathan Lati Lelelit, the governor of Samburu, a county about 240 miles north of Nairobi. “We have so many other things to do with the little money we have. But we have no option.”
## How climate change is turning camels into the new cows
Kenya rainfall map
## How climate change is turning camels into the new cows
Authorities had selected the recipients, those crowding around the camels, on the condition that they use the animal for milk, not meat. They were also those judged by local officials to be the most in need. They had stories of near-total cattle losses, of walking miles to find water, of violent run-ins with a neighboring tribe as they strayed farther from their territory in search of grazing space for their faltering livestock.
## How climate change is turning camels into the new cows
Still, many said the plight of one person stood out: Dishon Leleina.
## How climate change is turning camels into the new cows
Leleina, 42, had been wealthy by the standards of this region before the drought. He had two wives and 10 kids, and had been surrounded by an abundance of cows for nearly as long as he could remember. He even sacrificed bulls — with a stab to the back of the head — on each of his wedding days.
## How climate change is turning camels into the new cows
But when one rainy season failed, then another, then another, his stock of 150 cows plummeted over several years as never before. A few dozen were raided by the bordering Pokot tribe. And more than a hundred withered away — going skinny in the midsection, swelling in other areas. Some would go to sleep at night and never wake up. Some would arrive at last at a water source, drink lustily and collapse to their death. Several times, including after losing his best milking cow, Leleina roared at the sky in fury. By the time the rains resumed last year, he had seven cows left.
## How climate change is turning camels into the new cows
“I had one status” before the drought, he said. “And now I have another.”
## How climate change is turning camels into the new cows
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People walked for hours to attend the camel distribution, some putting on their best clothing.
## How climate change is turning camels into the new cows
What hadnt changed was his daily routine; he moved in step with his livestock, often walking miles per day. But now he had cut back to one meal per day — as did many other pastoralists. He lost weight. Several times, he fainted. Even on the day of the camel distribution, as the event stretched into late afternoon, almost nobody was seen eating or drinking.
## How climate change is turning camels into the new cows
As the number drawing began, Leleina pressed into the crowd. An organizer with a sheet of paper recorded who would take which camel home. Some of the camels were big, some small, some muscular, many slender, and as soon as people pulled numbers — 73, 6, 27 — they darted off to find their animal in the crowd.
## How climate change is turning camels into the new cows
Then it was Leleinas turn. He reached into the hat.
## How climate change is turning camels into the new cows
“Number 17,” he said.
## How climate change is turning camels into the new cows
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Camel recipients, including Leleina (center, in green), crowd around a checklist keeping track of the animals and their new owners.
## How climate change is turning camels into the new cows
He walked toward the camels, scrap of paper in hand, and tried to use his wooden staff to poke a few of the animals, which were bunched together, obscuring the numbers painted at the base of their necks. Leleina squinted into the sun. He went in another direction. He prodded a few more animals. And then he found her: a skinny camel with a medium build, a rich tuft of longer fur on its hump.
## How climate change is turning camels into the new cows
He gave her a pat.
## How climate change is turning camels into the new cows
It would be dark soon, and Leleina still needed to guide his new camel home — several miles through the powdery dirt and shrub land. But even in this harsh place, Camel 17 could manage to find a snack.
## How climate change is turning camels into the new cows
She darted over to an acacia tree, pulling flowers into her mouth, working her tongue around two-inch thorns.
## How climate change is turning camels into the new cows
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### An animal built for drought
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Camels can go two weeks without water, as opposed to a day or two for a cow. They can lose [30 percent](https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/how-do-camels-survive-in-deserts.html?itid=lk_inline_enhanced-template) of their body weight and survive, one of the highest thresholds for any large animal. Their body temperatures [fluctuate](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4270234/?itid=lk_inline_enhanced-template) in sync with daily climate patterns. When they pee, their urine trickles down their legs, keeping them cool. When they lie down, their leathery knees fold into pedestals that work to prop much of their undersides just above the ground, allowing cooling air to pass through.
## How climate change is turning camels into the new cows
One recently published paper, perhaps straying from science to reverence, called them a “miracle species.”
## How climate change is turning camels into the new cows
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Milk is one of the biggest nutrition sources for people in Samburu. With camels, the hope is that people can still have milk during droughts.
## How climate change is turning camels into the new cows
And yet in much of Africa — for much of human history — their attributes havent been needed. For centuries, theyve resided primarily in the driest outer ring of the continent, while cows — outnumbering camels in Africa 10 to 1 — reigned in the lush river plains, in the highlands. Kenya, where the landscape can turn from green to reddish and back in an hours drive, has long been a middle ground: a place where some tribes use camels and more use cows, with identities forming around that choice. Because of that, neighboring tribes see the consequences of using one animal vs. the other. That has seemingly transformed Samburu County — an area the size of New Jersey that is home to the Samburu tribe — into an experiment on how livestock fare, and how humans respond, in a warming climate.
## How climate change is turning camels into the new cows
The experiment started about a half-century ago, according to Louise Sperling, a scholar who conducted fieldwork in Samburu in the 1980s. The Samburu were among the most “specialized and successful” cattle-keepers in East Africa, she wrote in one account, but they were increasingly mixing with and marrying members of a nearby tribe, the Rendille — camel-keepers.
## How climate change is turning camels into the new cows
Over the subsequent decades, they also noticed changes in traditional weather patterns. Fewer rainy seasons. Less predictability. And most importantly: more frequent droughts.
## How climate change is turning camels into the new cows
Uptake was gradual. Cows still overwhelmingly outnumbered camels. And cows still defined the Samburu identity, used in celebrations or as dowries.
## How climate change is turning camels into the new cows
But then came the [longest series of failed rainy seasons](https://fews.net/horn-africa-experiences-five-consecutive-seasons-drought-first-time-history?itid=lk_inline_enhanced-template) on record in the Horn of Africa.
## How climate change is turning camels into the new cows
The drought started in 2020 and held its grip for three years. An international team of scientists said a drought of this severity had been [100 times more likely](https://www.worldweatherattribution.org/human-induced-climate-change-increased-drought-severity-in-southern-horn-of-africa/?itid=lk_inline_enhanced-template) because of climate change. In Samburu, the smell of rotting cattle carcasses spread across this county of roughly 310,000 people. Malnutrition spiked, including among children and the elderly. The Kenyan government and the World Food Program had to step in with aid.
## How climate change is turning camels into the new cows
And yet the level of need wasnt equal.
## How climate change is turning camels into the new cows
Noompon Lenkamaldanyani, a single mother of four, lost 18 of her 20 cows and fell short on milk, but she noticed her camel-owning neighbors were willing to step in and offer help.
## How climate change is turning camels into the new cows
## How climate change is turning camels into the new cows
Lekojde Loidongo said he and his family “didnt suffer much,” as all 22 of their camels continued to produce milk.
## How climate change is turning camels into the new cows
Even Leleina, the new owner of Camel 17, said he noticed how the animals fared differently. Hed owned three camels before the drought hit. They all survived.
## How climate change is turning camels into the new cows
If he had any regrets, it was that he hadnt moved earlier. His father, who died in 2021, had been an early adopter of camels.
## How climate change is turning camels into the new cows
“In the future,” Leleina said, echoing a conclusion shared by others, “I foresee having more camels than cows.”
## How climate change is turning camels into the new cows
## How climate change is turning camels into the new cows
Because of these realizations, there has been very little backlash to the governments camel program, which started eight years ago. Some are also obtaining their own camels by trading cattle at markets. Pastoralists — people who move with their livestock herds — are often described as among the most vulnerable people in the world to climate change, and their fortunes can swing based on the decisions they make about which animals to keep.
## How climate change is turning camels into the new cows
A 2022 research paper published in Nature Food, analyzing a huge belt of land across northern sub-Saharan Africa, noted increased heat stress and reduced water availability in some areas and said milk production would benefit from a higher proportion of camels, as well as goats, which are also more climate-resilient than cows. Camel milk is a comparable substitute for cows milk. It tends to be lower in fat and higher in certain minerals, said Anne Mottet, the lead livestock specialist at the International Fund for Agricultural Development. Many say it has a saltier taste.
## How climate change is turning camels into the new cows
Camel vs cattle
## How climate change is turning camels into the new cows
“Were just following the trends of the drought,” said Lepason Lenanguram, another camel recipient in Samburu. “People want camels now. The culture is changing.”
## How climate change is turning camels into the new cows
The Samburu governor said he believes “totally” that shifting to the camel is the right move. He noted that Samburu — with large swaths far removed from the electrical grid and without running water — had contributed relatively little to global greenhouse gas emissions. By far the greatest source of emissions in rural areas like Samburu is methane, a byproduct of the cows complex digestive process. Camels emit far less methane.
## How climate change is turning camels into the new cows
The program gives away only one camel per person. But it can still build up peace of mind, said the director of the governors press service, Jeff Lekupe, who was on-site when the camels were distributed. With even one camel, a family has better chances of having milk during a drought. And then there is a “ripple effect,” he said. The camel gives birth. The population grows.
## How climate change is turning camels into the new cows
“So that next time,” he said, “the need for the WFP will be minimal.”
## How climate change is turning camels into the new cows
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### Getting acclimated to Camel 17
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Eventually the sun rose. Camel 17 was still there.
## How climate change is turning camels into the new cows
## How climate change is turning camels into the new cows
“The camel might have been thinking about where it came from,” Leleina said.
## How climate change is turning camels into the new cows
In the morning, more at ease, he let the newest addition to his herd go off. She needed to eat. The job of following her fell to Leleinas 9-year-old daughter, and after the camel had been out for a while, Leleina decided to join her. So he set off in the direction of a red-rock table mountain, crunching through the scrub, occasionally coming upon bones, and moving closer to an area that he knew had foliage for camels and was free of predators. He heard nothing for five minutes, then 10, and then shouted his daughters name.
## How climate change is turning camels into the new cows
“Nashenjo,” he shouted.
## How climate change is turning camels into the new cows
Then a minute later:
## How climate change is turning camels into the new cows
“Nashenjo!”
## How climate change is turning camels into the new cows
He heard an animal noise.
## How climate change is turning camels into the new cows
“The camels are not far from here,” he said.
## How climate change is turning camels into the new cows
In a circle of trees, he saw not only Camel 17, but a half-dozen other camels — craning their necks from branch to branch. A few of the camels were his. Others belonged to a neighbor. It was a critical mass of camels in a place that had once belonged almost entirely to cattle, and the ranks only figured to grow. A day earlier, at the same time of the distribution, a neighbors camel had gone into labor. Leleinas neighbors had crouched at the camels side, pulling out the healthy baby by the legs.
## How climate change is turning camels into the new cows
Leleina sat down at the base of a tree and watched the animals eat. Camel 17 was still skinny, but that was understandable, he said. She needed time to recover. Her trip to get here had been 100-odd miles, seven days, three stops for water, and even in that journey he saw why she was suited for her new home.
## How climate change is turning camels into the new cows
“Shes a survivor,” he said.
## How climate change is turning camels into the new cows
##### About this story
Design, development and illustrations by Hailey Haymond. Map by Naema Ahmed. Editing by Stuart Leavenworth, Joe Moore, Sandra M. Stevenson and Alice Li. Copy editing by Christopher Rickett.
##### Sources
Precipitation data from [Climate Hazards Group InfraRed Precipitation with Station data.](https://www.chc.ucsb.edu/data/chirps) Milk production data from "A shift from cattle to camel and goat farming can sustain milk production with lower inputs and emissions in north sub-Saharan Africas drylands," [Nature Food, 2022.](https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-022-00543-6) Figures reflect average values for cattle and camels.
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# Scenes From the Knives-Out Feud Between Barbara Walters and Diane Sawyer
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## *1989*
Barbara could pinpoint precisely when she first encountered **Diane Sawyer.**
Hanging on the wall of her Fifth Avenue apartment was a photograph showing the two of them on the trip where they met. On the last full day of President Richard Nixons tour of China in 1972, the eighty-seven reporters, photographers, and technicians in the traveling press corps lined up with a handful of staffers from the White House press and travel offices in the courtyard of the West Lake Guest House in Hangzhou for a picture to commemorate the historic journey.
The president is standing in the middle of the first row, a small smile on his face.
To his left side is his press secretary, Ron Ziegler, and then Helen Thomas, a correspondent for United Press International who would later become the dean of the White House press corps. **Dan Rather** of CBS is crouching at their feet. To Nixons right side, so close their
shoulders are touching, is Barbara. Unlike most of the other journalists on the trip, she was neither a White House correspondent nor a TV anchor. She appeared on *Today* but was not yet the shows co-host. Richard Wald, the networks executive vice president, had taken a gamble by sending her. Three other NBC correspondents were on the trip and scattered in the photo, each with more experience and higher status than she had.
Still, Barbara managed to plant herself in pride of place, closest of all to the president. She is beaming. Standing behind her is Walter Cronkite. The third female journalist credentialed for the trip, Fay Gillis Wells, a pioneering foreign correspondent then working for Storer Broadcasting Company, is halfway down the row, bundled up in a coat with a fur collar.
“Theres Nixon,” Barbara said two decades later, pointing out the president to *New York Times* reporter **Bill Carter,** who was then working on a profile of her for the newspapers Sunday magazine. The photo was displayed in the long hallway that served as a gallery of her interactions with the biggest names in politics and entertainment. “Here I am, pushy cookie,” she told him, using the self-deprecating description of herself that she favored. “And way over here, thats Diane,” tracing her finger to the border of the frame.
“She was an assistant press secretary,” Barbara said. “There were only two women on the trip who were reporters, Helen Thomas and me.” That wasnt accurate. The slight to Fay Wells was presumably unintentional.
But the slight to Diane was unmistakably deliberate. Carter couldnt quite believe she was making her disdain so clear. As a reporter on the television beat, he had covered the rivalry between Barbara and Diane, typically including their pro forma declarations of how much they respected one another. Now she seemed determined to pick at that scab, even while a reporter was taking notes. “Got herself in the middle—very acknowledging the truth there,” he told me, recalling the exchange. Then he mimicked her: “But look, way over here in the corner of the picture—look who it is, way over here. And she didnt have to do that. Im writing an article. Wouldnt you resist that if you could?”
But she couldnt. “No way could she resist that,” he said. She couldnt resist the comparison, the competition, not from the very start. Not later, at the height of her career. Not ever.
Diane always had it easy. At least, thats how Barbara saw it.
If Barbaras early career was a case study in the long slog, Dianes was a blueprint for how to soar. In 1978, after working for former president Nixon for four years as he wrote his memoir, she joined CBS News as a reporter. (Her prior media experience was a stint out of college as a weather girl at WLKY in Louisville.) Just three years later, she was named co-anchor of the *CBS Morning News*. In 1984, she became the first female correspondent on *60 Minutes*, another prestigious post.
Then Roone Arledge called. A chapter of his memoir is titled “Landing Diane,” chronicling what he called “a clandestine courtship.” For a year and a half, they would meet privately for lunch or dinner every few weeks, unbeknownst to Barbara or almost anyone else. He convinced Diane to make the jump to ABC; he persuaded executives at ABC reluctant about hiring her that it was a good idea. He pitched a newsmagazine called *Primetime Live* that would pair her with the networks boisterous White House correspondent, **Sam Donaldson.**
Roone saw it as a coup.
Barbara saw it as a betrayal.
“Roone Arledge, who was my savior, was also my nemesis because he brought Diane over from 60 Minutes and pitted us against each other,” she would say two decades later.
She had little warning that Dianes hiring was in the works and no say in whether it would happen. A few days before the announcement, when rumors began to swirl, Peter Jennings had called Roone to make sure any deal wouldnt affect his role as the sole anchor for the *ABC Evening News*. Then Roone called Barbara to give her a heads-up. “Theres a fairly good possibility that the **Diane Sawyer** thing may happen, maybe even this weekend,” he told her, using what he called his “softest soap,” his smoothest persuasion. “Im calling so you wont be taken by surprise if it does, number one, and number two, to assure you that, if it happens, it wont affect you in any way.”
“Thats terrific,” she replied, though he noticed that her icy tone didnt match her warm words. “Id be delighted to have Diane here. I think shes awfully good.”
Half an hour later, she called back. “Now that Ive thought it over, Im totally opposed to her,” she said, not even mentioning “her” name. This time, Barbaras words did match her tone. “It *has* to affect me. How is someone of my stature supposed to divide up things with *her*? With all the things I do for ABC, bringing in such an obvious competitor like her is going to make it very tough…” He assumed the unspoken conclusion of that sentence was “for me to continue working at ABC.” He reassured her she was “foremost in my heart and would continue so everlastingly.” He told her he wouldnt let her get hurt, that he would personally look after her interests.
When Dianes move was announced days later, the news shook the TV world in the same way Barbaras shift to ABC from NBC had. “The fact is that the people who run the network news divisions believe that Sawyers defection from CBS was one of the most important events in broadcast journalism—perhaps *the* most important—since **Barbara Walters** was lured to ABC 13 years ago for $1 million,” **Edward Klein** wrote in *New York* magazine. A close-up of a contemplative Diane was featured on the magazines cover. The move signaled that “no longer CBS but ABC was the dominant network in news.”
Both women were smart, ambitious, and extraordinarily hardworking. Neither had come up through journalisms traditional path. Barbara grew up in the show business world of her fathers nightclubs in Miami and New York before moving into a hybrid of journalism and entertainment. Diane, the daughter of a Kentucky judge, had worked for the only American president ever to resign in disgrace, then managed the difficult maneuver of crossing over into the news media. The backgrounds of both were the subject of suspicion by some of their journalistic brethren.
In other ways, though, they could hardly have been more different. Diane was sixteen years younger, enough of an interval to benefit from gains that had been hard-won by Barbara and other groundbreakers. She was the most beautiful woman in TV news. As a teenager, she had been crowned Americas Junior Miss; as an adult, she could seem almost ethereal. If Diane was cool and aloof, Barbara was hot, intense, in your face. Diane glided. Barbara charged.
If someone had built to order the woman most likely to set off Barbara Walters, she would have looked a lot like Diane Sawyer. Their rivalry became the talk of the town, and the network.
“When I arrived, Im sure it was confusing to her because interviews had been her sole terrain,” Diane told me. “I was always working on some long-form, delving into violence in schools or something that had really intrigued me. So I never felt that shows I was on, or my career, depended on interviews solely, but I understood what they meant to her.” The big interview was Barbaras bread-and-butter. “When I started doing some interviews, I think it must have thrown her.”
Now Diane and her booker, **Mark Robertson,** were pursuing them, too; he was every bit as aggressive as Barbara, sometimes enabling Diane to stay above the fray. But to her surprise and dismay, Diane discovered ABC had no system to allocate prospective subjects, like the one that was used at *60 Minutes* to maintain some order among the famously competitive correspondents there. At ABC, it was a free-for-all. Whoever could land a big guest got them.
L-R: in 1993, 1990, and 2014.L-R: by Ron Galella/Ron Galella Collection/Getty Images; By Bettmann/Getty Images; by Noam Galai/WireImage/Getty Images.
Barbara welcomed Diane to ABC by trying to steal the first guest from her new show.
Thomas Root was at the center of a headline-grabbing mystery. On July 13, 1989, the communications lawyer took off from Washington National Airport in his Cessna 210 Centurion, flying to North Carolina to meet some clients. He radioed he was having trouble breathing; later, he would report he blacked out. The single-engine plane was tailed by military jets and helicopters as it headed down the Eastern Seaboard on autopilot for nearly four hours and eight hundred miles. When it ran out of fuel and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near the Bahamas, Root bobbed to the surface and rescuers managed to pull him into a raft. Oh, and this: He had an unexplained gunshot wound in his stomach.
*Primetime* booker **Maia Samuel** persuaded Root to come to the New York studio for an exclusive, live interview with Diane for the first show. She checked him into a hotel on Central Park West and stationed herself in the lobby, on the lookout for mischief, presumably by some competitor at another network. Instead, it was an ABC colleague, Lynn Murray, an associate producer on *20 20*, who showed up. She had been dispatched to convince Root to ditch Diane and be interviewed by Barbara instead.
“It was a complicated internal ABC situation,” **Victor Neufeld,** the executive producer of *20 20*, told me, an understatement. “It was very competitive, and I was in the middle.” Working for Barbara was a privilege, journalistic “nirvana,” he said, but it “wasnt for the faint-hearted.” He took the fall for the stunt, saying he was the one who had suggested Murray pursue Root; at the time Barbara insisted she had nothing to do with it. But Neufeld confirmed to me years later that it was Barbaras doing. Thats what everyone had assumed from the start.
Her producers on the show were “thunderstruck” by the audacity of the move, Diane told me, although she said she was too consumed with the other complications of launching a new show to pay much attention.
“None of us could get over the fact that she would actually attempt to steal the name \[that is, the most prominent guest\] for the premier show,” **Ira Rosen,** a senior producer for *Primetime*, told me. “It was a sort of foreshadowing of what would be coming in the following months, years.”
Soon afterward, Barbara tried to upend another interview that Diane had landed, this time with Katharine Hepburn. The crew from *Primetime* was already in Hepburns New York apartment setting up the lights and cameras when Barbara called Hepburn, urging her to cancel Diane and talk to her instead, Roone biographer **Marc Gunther** reported. The famed actress declined.
Diane managed some payback for that one. When Barbara scheduled her own Hepburn interview a year later, *Primetime* rebroadcast Dianes interview just ahead of it. (A “management mistake,” ABCs spokeswoman said afterward, a benign explanation that convinced no one.)
“There were no rules,” Diane said. A year after she had arrived at ABC, she asked Roone to intervene, to set up some guardrails. To her frustration, he refused. “Roone felt that competition even in the family would be good,” she said. “I really felt that it would be impossible for me to be put in a situation where I would be calling and Barbara would be calling, too. Thats not what families do.”
It was a classic Roone tactic, to hire the biggest names with the biggest ambitions and have them compete for the biggest prizes, the highest ratings, the most acclaim. “Roone loved pitting people against each other,” producer **Phyllis McGrady** told me. “He thought it made everything rise to a new, different level.” That was true not only of Barbara and Diane but also of men in his employ, of Peter Jennings and **Ted Koppel** and others.
Diane and Rosen demanded a meeting with Roone after Barbara managed to steal an interview, this one with **John Hinckley Jr.**, who was confined to a psychiatric hospital for the attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan. “How is thievery an honorable position to take in this and allowing it to happen?” Rosen asked him.
Roone, on a speakerphone, didnt share his outrage. “She outsmarted you,” he said.
Their relationship wasnt simple; it had layers. “I know that nobody, maybe, will believe this,” Diane told me, “but we spent a lot of time laughing and forging a real friendship, and that was true even when I first arrived.” The two of them understood more than anyone else the trials they had faced, the prices they had paid. While they had differences, they could recognize something of themselves in the other. “I could share anything with her, and I know she shared things with me, things that were very close to the bone,” Diane said. She saw Barbaras wistfulness about her loving marriage to Mike Nichols. Barbara envied it, a reminder that she had never managed to sustain such a union herself.
They were also the most intensive competitors, a stronger strand in their relationship.
Two years later came the most explosive showdown of all between Barbara and Diane, one never before reported. It put Barbara on the defensive and blew up, at least for a time, the relationship she valued most, the one with Roone.
In 1996, every network was seeking an interview with President **Bill Clinton** as he pursued a campaign for a second term. After disastrous midterm elections in 1994 had cost Democrats control of the House and Senate, he had made a remarkable political metamorphosis, partly in concert with his leading antagonist, Republican House speaker **Newt Gingrich.**
The ABC brass decided it was Dianes turn to get the Clinton interview. “Roone Arledge made it very clear to me and told me specifically, and always on the phone with Joanna Bistany, who was his number two in managing the talent and all of that, that this one had to go to Diane, that I had to explain to the White House that ABCs priority was to get the interview and our priority for the interview was Diane Sawyer,” **Robin Sproul,** the networks Washington bureau chief, told me. “I did, in fact, communicate that to the White House very clearly that thats what we wanted.”
Barbara, who had conducted a White House interview with First Lady **Hillary Clinton** about her new book in January, was supposed to stand down. That word reached everyone involved except, apparently, Barbara. To the bemusement of White House press secretary **Mike McCurry,** both Diane and Barbara were aggressively lobbying White House staffers for an interview with the president—not only explaining why they should get it but also why the other one shouldnt.
Sproul had driven her two young daughters to the Eastern Shore for a spring weekend when the White House press office pinged her beeper; it was before the era of smartphones. She called back. “Well, I have good news and bad news,” McCurry told her. “You got the interview—and its going to Barbara.” He said he realized she would have “a hot one on her hands” with that. She called Roone and Joanna from the hotel. “Heres the situation,” she told them. “We got the interview—yay!—but theyre giving it to Barbara.”
Roone was enraged. “How can they do that?” he demanded. She replied, “Look, they get to offer the interview to whoever they want to offer the interview to. Thats what they get to do.” “Well, you can tell them we dont want their interview,” he replied angrily. “You call the White House and tell them were not doing the interview.”
Sproul, startled, warned that if ABC turned down a prized interview with the president because of a rivalry between two anchors, that would become the story, and a big one. “The White House knows that the two of them have been down there arguing it and fighting for this interview and if you turn it down, that will be leaked,” she said.
“Call the White House now and you tell them, were turning down the interview,” Roone repeated.
*Click.*
An hour and a half later, Sproul was still trying to figure out exactly how to deliver that message to the White House when Joanna called her back. “Hon, you know that thing Roone asked you to do? Did you do that?” she asked. No, Sproul replied, not yet. Joanna said, “Dont do that. Were delighted to do the interview with the White House. Couldnt be happier. Thank you.”
That would not be the end of it. Roone was so angry and the blowback so blistering that Barbara wrote a three-page memo to him offering her account of what had happened and why she was not at fault for any of it. For someone who was accustomed to being on offense, to plowing ahead, she suddenly found herself on her back foot. She had always had sharp antennae. It was a sign of the trouble she was in that she would feel compelled to write such an explanation, convincing or not.
“I am troubled, as I am sure you are, by the events concerning the background to the interview with President Clinton,” she began in the memo typed on her *20 20* stationery, dated April 16, 1996. It was filed in the Roone Arledge archives at Columbia University. Joanna had never told her it was Dianes interview, she insisted, and besides, she was the one who deserved it. “Indeed, the only top ABC correspondent never to have interviewed President Clinton is me, so if anything, we would have expected ABC News to have asked for us to have priority, were there to be one,” underlining words for emphasis.
She offered preemptive responses to whatever questions might be raised, in a word salad of explanation, finger-pointing, half-truths, random asides, and non sequiturs. The interview she recently had with Hillary was irrelevant, she wrote, and by the way only turned out to be newsworthy because of her acumen. She had never before met McCurry, so it was perfectly understandable that she went to see him, she said, and that she would request an interview with Clinton while she was in the press secretarys office.
She mentioned her pitch, the one that apparently had proved to be so persuasive. She had recently interviewed Colin Powell, she noted. “Everyone knew what Powells character was, I said, but they didnt know how he stood on the issues until we asked,’” she told McCurry. “With the president, I suggested, everyone knows how he stands on the issues, but his character is being questioned.
“McCurry then told us, to our astonishment, that ABC News was pushing hard for Diane,” she wrote. “He thought we should know. We said, Oh, and little more.” Barbara blamed her apparent cluelessness on Joannas failure to keep her informed. At one point, when they talked, Barbara wrote, “Joanna was ill and perhaps has forgotten some of the conversation.”
Now, she complained, Joanna had delivered her a disquieting message. “She told us that you had washed your hands of the whole thing,’” Barbara wrote, and that “she, too, washed her hands of the whole situation and that though she loved me as a human being, from now on any discussions I had in the future should be with **Alan Wurtzel.**” Wurtzel was the networks senior vice president for newsmagazine and long-form programming. Barbara was accustomed to having a clear channel to Roone, the boss at the top.
“I am also concerned about my relationship with Diane,” Barbara continued. “She and I have had a wonderful relationship, considering our programs are still so competitive, and I would hate for her to have the impression that I knew of ABC News position and deliberately undercut her.” (For the record, Diane told me she remembered other incidents when they had clashed but not this one.)
That “wonderful relationship,” and Barbaras concern about it, would surely have been news to everyone who had been caught in the crossfire between the two of them. The idea that she was “astonished” to learn the interview had been designated for Diane was less than credible, too. So was the notion that, even if she acknowledged knowing, she would have been deterred from trying to get the interview herself.
Whether they believed her version of events or not, though, Barbara closed with a threat. She was then in the midst of contract negotiations, she noted, suggesting that perhaps she might be better off at some other network. “All this dismayed me, to put it mildly,” she wrote. “If this is what it is like before I sign a contract, I thought, what will the next years be like? How unhappy will I be?” She deployed, in effect, the nuclear option, that she would leave ABC.
That was a credible threat. Four years earlier, during the previous round of contract negotiations, CBS had pursued her. **Howard Stringer,** then president of the CBS Broadcast Group, and Laurence Tisch, the CEO and president of CBS, had offered her a staggering $10 million a year to anchor her own newsmagazine, promising a valuable time slot, 10 p.m. on Mondays. Anxious about having to prove herself yet again, she turned CBS down but let Bistany know about the rivals bid.
This time, the risk that she might take a walk was apparently enough to avert a showdown.
Barbara sat down with Clinton for the interview. As promised, she focused on questions about his character. At that time, the president had begun a sexual relationship with a White House intern named **Monica Lewinsky,** but neither Barbara nor almost anyone else realized that yet. “The American people have now had an adequate opportunity to judge me as president, to see my work, to make a judgment about whether I have the character to do this job, and they will do that,” Clinton told her.
After all that, the interview didnt make news—nothing like the blockbuster interview she would have with Monica three years later. Barbara herself didnt think much of the sit-down with Clinton. “He never sparkled with me,” she said dismissively. “Our conversation was not memorable to me.”
When **Ben Sherwood** became president of ABC News in 2010, he was determined to ease the internal competition and forge a more collaborative work ethic within the network—to focus their energy against competitors at CBS and NBC, not at their colleagues down the corridor. “For years, it seemed that there had been roving gangs of anchormen and women and correspondents and producers roaming the halls and sometimes shooting each other in broad daylight,” he told me. “We felt like we needed to restore law and order and bring the organization together peacefully. That was our goal.”
In 1989, Roone had staged a celebrated publicity campaign featuring the networks biggest guns, informally dubbed “the Magnificent Seven”: Peter Jennings, Ted Koppel, Barbara Walters, Diane Sawyer, David Brinkley, Sam Donaldson, and Hugh Downs. Now Sherwood scheduled a photo session at the ABC studio at Chelsea Piers including a much larger group of twenty-two anchors. His message: “This group, well win together, well win the championship together, and thats our mission together. Its not every woman and man for himself anymore. Its not me against you in the street: Ill kill you; Ill get that interview. Its were going to do this together.’”
Everyone was instructed to wear black or navy—not a uniform, exactly, but the colors of a unified team. Just about everybody complied, more or less. The fourteen men were all in dark suits, **David Muir** and **George Stephanopoulos** among them. **Katie Couric** and **Christiane Amanpour** dressed in dark gray; **Lara Spencer** and **Elizabeth Vargas** in quiet\\ shades of blue; **Robin Roberts** in a muted maroon. Diane Sawyer, on the front row and just off center, was wearing a black suit and crisp white blouse, with just a touch of color in her narrow red belt.
Barbara arrived last and late, just in time to perch on her designated stool in the front. She was wearing not black or navy or gray or a color that was even slightly muted. She was wearing a red jacket over a black turtleneck, a brilliant combination that had the intended effect. With that red jacket, Barbara stole the spotlight. If this was a photograph of a team, there would be no question, visually at least, who commanded its center.
Dianes countenance in the photo is guarded, but she was furious. “See? Its all about her,” she told others afterward. “She never follows the rules.” Sherwood understood the power play involved, but at that point there was nothing to be done about it. The photo was taken and used for publicity. “She won that round,” he told me with a rueful chuckle. “That was game-set-match.”
In the picture, Barbara is in pride of place, in the precise center of the front row. Her expression is triumphant, remarkably like the one in the photo taken nearly two decades earlier in the courtyard of the West Lake Guest House in Hangzhou, China, where she had managed to park herself right next to President Nixon.
She is beaming.
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# Secret in the walls: Hidden letters reveal love, lust, scandal in 1920s Baltimore society
There are secrets within the old houses of Baltimore. The secrets are stashed away in attics and hidden under floorboards and buried in privies.
When Joanna Meades family moved into a 1910 house in Roland Park, she tried to picture all the residents who had come before her. How many hands had turned the old brass doorknobs? What mysteries might they have left behind?
Then, one day, a bathroom renovation opened a window into a long-forgotten world.
Her contractor removed a wall and found something hidden amid the plumbing. He wiped off the dust — a little black box made of tin and painted with gold stripes. The lock was broken.
Later, Meade eased back the lid. Stacked inside and bound with twine were old letters. The browned paper was as delicate as onionskin. Every letter was addressed to a woman, “Mrs. R.A. Spaeth.”
![Joanna Meade reads aloud love letters from the 1920's in the sun room of her home on February 27, 2024. The letters were found inside of a wall during a renovation.](https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/resizer/QW8ds0hqeaGlm8C5yuzKQuqq5pA=/1280x0/filters:quality(70):format(jpg)/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/baltimorebanner/MXCW2PBOGND3BHVK24V3SDGNBI.JPG)
Joanna Meade reads one of the letters found hidden inside a wall of her Roland Park home. A contractor was renovating Meade's bathroom when he discovered the tin box containing them. (Kaitlin Newman/The Baltimore Banner)
Gently, carefully, she unfolded some letters and began to read. One was dated June 3, 1921.
### Read More
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*Dearest, I have been writing you many stupid letters recently, when I might have been telling you I loved you. I see you doing your hair, looking sideways from dark eyes at me out of the mirror …*
These were love letters from a century ago.
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*My inspiration is of lying upon my back, with closed eyes, and my whole consciousness drawn to one focus — the sensation of your warm mouth fast upon mine.*
The loopy cursive was difficult to read. The antiquated language was hard to follow. Meade counted one, two, three ... 67 letters. All but one postmarked 1920 or 1921. Her imagination was humming. The letters contained the desire and intrigue of a paperback romance.
*I have been unable to rid my mind of you in the black thing. Have you been wearing it, by any chance, to hypnotize my thoughts?*
For page after page, the writer contemplated her kisses and her curves. He contemplated German philosophers, too.
The letters presented more questions than answers. Who was Mrs. R.A. Spaeth? Who was the writer? He simply signed, “R.” His envelopes showed no return address.
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The envelopes were bundled with twine and spanned 1920-1921. (Stokely Baksh)
The old house had whispered a secret. Meade wanted to know everything.
Her search for answers would plunge her into 1920s Baltimore society: a celebrated Johns Hopkins scientist, a famous mountaineer and a trailblazing female journalist.
The letters would capture imaginations across the city and, with help from curious neighbors and The Baltimore Banner, unfurl a tale of lust and scandal and fortune.
## Chapter One: Meade falls in love
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*July 13, 1920 *
*My darling, my darling, I bury my face in you, and strain to me all of you that I can clasp.*
Squinting at the old handwriting, Meade could make out a first name for Mrs. Spaeth: “My dearest Edith.” And scattered lines suggested Edith was swept up in a tumultuous romance.
*“I shall behave in a way to you utterly asinine.”*
*“Goodnight dark eyes and glorious hair.”*
Meade went through four or five of the letters, and she was hooked.
“It was like eavesdropping,” she said.
A quick internet search told her that an R.A. Spaeth had published zoological papers in the 1910s and 1920s on topics such as color changes of fish. A collection of gibbon ape specimens in Switzerland bore his name. Meade posted on the website Nextdoor.
A woman in Waverly sent a newspaper article on Dr. Reynold Albrecht Spaeth. The zoologist and Johns Hopkins public health professor was ahead of his time, giving lectures on the merits of birth control and education for women factory workers. By 1920, he was 34 and already renowned in the field of immunology.
The love letters were to his wife, Edith.
![67 letters were found in a wall during a construction job. The letters were addressed to Mrs. R.A. Spaeth.](https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/resizer/8zlwOBXu_Dco8NRO87nIiTvmM7U=/1280x0/filters:quality(70):format(jpg)/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/baltimorebanner/IPWAG4SCNNDNHNGDLC7PD6LMJI.jpg)
Every one of the 67 letters were addressed to a woman, "Mrs. R.A. Spaeth." (Kirk McKoy/The Baltimore Banner)
Curiously, the letters were addressed to another house, on Longwood Road. Thats around the corner from Meades home. Her neighbor discovered in city directories that Reynold and Edith Spaeth had lived on Longwood Road in 1920.
Another neighbor found documents online about Edith: A daughter of [the mayor of Yonkers](https://www.nytimes.com/1923/11/22/archives/mayor-of-yonkers-dejected-a-suicide-walter-m-taussig-shoots-himself.html), she came from the prominent Taussig family. The society pages reported her attendance at dances and on steamers abroad. In the summer of 1913, she married Reynold, who was finishing his graduate studies at Harvard.
Edith was educated at the best womens colleges, Wellesley and Radcliffe, and wrote newspaper articles on everything from guinea pigs to vitamins. Shes remembered as one of Americas first syndicated woman science writers.
More neighbors sent Census records, newspaper articles and obituaries. Meades post online drew more than 200 comments.
Thats when The Banner went to see the letters. Meade has a young daughter and a job as a fitness trainer, and while riveted by her find, had little desire to parse more than 100 pages of faded, old cursive.
She handed over the tin box and the discoveries by her neighbors. Maybe there was something more to find.
## Chapter Two: Tracing a love story
In the newsroom, we spread the letters across the table in a small office. Reporters came and went. Everyone wanted to help decipher juicy turn-of-the-century love letters.
![67 letters were found in a wall during a construction job. The letters were addressed to Mrs. R. A. Spaeth.](https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/resizer/RQhGSz-UxKXfLHICSpUNIAvlb60=/1280x0/filters:quality(70):format(jpg)/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/baltimorebanner/B42S2PUV4ZCENLX4T7KB76NUGU.jpg)
Every letters was folded neatly back in its envelope. Someone had hidden the letters carefully. (Kirk McKoy/The Baltimore Banner)
Patterns began to appear in the handwriting. He put the tails of his “gs” on the wrong side, like “ps.” He used “+” for “and.”
What a sweet romance: an esteemed Hopkins scientist, whose research took him away from home, writing love letters back to his wife in Baltimore. Or so it seemed.
“R” emerged as a man consumed by his studies and passions. His emotions poured out in a heady rush of steamy fantasies, jealous accusations, cold indifference. He quoted Kant and worried about money. One letter rambled on for 16 pages.
He fixated on someone named “Reu” — who was that? “R” wrote that legal trouble in Philadelphia threatened to ruin him.
By 1920, the Spaeths would have been married for seven years and raising a young son. Oddly, there was little mention of routine domestic affairs in the letters to Edith.
One letter stood out like a decoder ring. It was typed and dated Aug. 6, 1913, two weeks before the Spaeths wedding.
![This Aug. 6 1913 letter, the only one typed, provided a clue to who "R," the letter writer was.](https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/resizer/wWryICJDh7h9qCgzLP3okqGRJHQ=/1600x0/filters:quality(70):format(jpg)/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/baltimorebanner/ED5M6U3X7RAQ3BVZG6UIKLXAFQ.jpg)
Only the Aug. 6, 1913, letter was typed. It helped confirm the identity of "R." (Stokely Baksh)
*Bird,*
*… What accessory duties are involved in my functioning at your little game of the 18th. Do we have to practice maneuvers, and if so, when? Before Monday morning? … Please make it as late as possible, as Im getting a lot of valuable work done here just now, and when I once leave it will be nothing but Ossining, probably, for the rest of the summer.*
Why would Reynold spend the summer after his wedding in Ossining, New York?
*… Also please tell me what other fellows in dear old Nineteen-Nine are going to usher, or for that matter are pretty likely to show up, so that I can arrange to get hold of them after the performance.*
“Your little game” and “the performance.” The words seemed dismissive for a young man writing to his fiancée about their wedding plans. Then came a line from a June 5, 1921, letter:
*Awfully good thing we arent married.*
Was this tongue-in-cheek 1920s humor? We turned back to the 1913 letter.
*… what other fellows in dear old Nineteen-Nine are going to usher?*
Could this be written not by the bridegroom, but by one of his ushers?
The Yonkers Herald Statesman reported the wedding of Reynold Spaeth and Edith Taussig. The couple planned to honeymoon in Kiel, Germany, not Ossining, New York.
The newspaper named their six ushers. One of them was Robert L. Underhill, of Ossining.
![A clue in this wedding announcement of Reynold Albrecht Spaeth and Edith E. Taussaig from The Yonkers Herald Statesman August 18, 1913 edition provided a clue to who "R" might be. (Source: Newspapers.com)](https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/resizer/4eOL64d3Vf8B4TAveWx0fhuWtAc=/1280x0/filters:quality(70):format(jpg)/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/baltimorebanner/7U4RDJBQ4BC6XGKGAMPFKBF4QE.jpg)
The wedding announcement for Reynold Spaeth and Edith Taussig in the Yonkers Herald Statesman contained a hidden plot twist. (Source: Newspapers.com)
The puzzle pieces suddenly fit.
“R” was not her husband.
## Chapter Three: Old friends
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*Darling,*
*I can often kiss you more deliciously elsewhere — in some beautiful curve, or darling spot of my own — but never with that quietly voluminous feeling that in the kiss itself one finds the world.*
Now, the letters revealed an altogether different romance, a hidden one. Our next discovery confirmed the identity of Ediths admirer “R.”
His 1913 letter alone lists a return address in Cambridge, Massachusetts, of [32 Conant Hall, a Harvard dorm.](https://gsas.harvard.edu/housing/life-residence-halls/residence-hall-overview/conant-hall)
The university archives contain a student catalog for 1912-1913. Robert Underhill is listed at 32 Conant Hall as a graduate student in philosophy. He taught math and philosophy at Harvard for a few years, too. Remember how “R” quotes Kant in his affections for Edith?
We recognized new patterns in his handwriting. He attached his Is to the verb that followed. “I wish” became “iwish.” More of his letters came into focus.
He was desperate and aching to meet Edith at a New York hotel just before Christmas of 1920.
*My only object in life is now to get near you …*
*My darling, do you think of me at all? …*
He urged Edith to set boundaries for “Reu,” writing that the man was squandering opportunities and must settle down to work. But that sloppy cursive wasnt Reu at all; it was “Ren,” for Reynold. Robert was writing to Edith about her husband.
*I dreamt three times, one night, of being unable to get at you, be alone with you. Sometimes you were disguised, sometimes in open character. Various things got in the way, other people, Ren!*
She must have asked him the pivotal question because he wrote back:
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*Dont ask me whether you should have married Ren. I cant answer without bringing in myself.*
Each new discovery pulled us in deeper. We could picture Edith, in her early 30s, a working mom of any era, seeing youths bright possibilities dimming and questioning her choices. Maybe she steals a moment to herself with a letter. To read Roberts letters was to hear his voice. They were ghosts, but alive.
We had missed a startling detail, though. The scientist Reynold Spaeth and philosopher Robert Underhill had both attended Haverford College, in the same 34-man class of 1909, no less. Remember the wedding letter? *... what other fellows in dear old Nineteen-Nine.*
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The Haverford College, Class of 1909.
![Photos of Robert L. M. Underhill (l) and Reynold Albrecht Spaeth (r) from the Haverford College, class of 1909 yearbook.](https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/resizer/zUAAEAvFkh3-d2XZ8aKEkV_pBfE=/1280x0/filters:quality(70):format(jpg)/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/baltimorebanner/ZC3HZ3IUYBHGJEZWHP5KPEGVLU.jpg)
The 1909 yearbook photos of Robert L. M. Underhill and R. A. Spaeth. (Stokely Baksh)
Their Haverford yearbook portrays Robert as a moody introvert who chased girls, brooded over philosophy and read the eras trashy romance. Reynold was the campus overachiever, busying himself in everything from football to the National Audubon Society.
Reynold and Robert both went on to Harvard, too. The universitys 1912-1913 catalog lists them in 32 Conant Hall; they were college roommates.
A flashbulb went off. The romantic triangle burst to light.
## Chapter Four: The journalist and the philosopher
The setting was Baltimore of the 1920s, in leafy, affluent Roland Park. Congress had just passed [the 19th Amendment](https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/19th-amendment#:~:text=Passed%20by%20Congress%20June%204,women%20the%20right%20to%20vote.) to grant women the right to vote. More women than ever before were joining the workforce. Edith looked to step out from her husbands shadow and establish herself in a mans field, science journalism.
In the book [“Writing for Their Lives: Americas Pioneering Female Science Journalists,”](https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262048163/writing-for-their-lives/) author Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette quotes letters from Edith to her editor.
“I dont want to write the half-baked, half-true, pseudoscience that has always appeared in newspapers,” she wrote.
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"Our Debt To The Guinea Pig," written by Edith E. Taussig and featured in the Dec. 29, 1920, edition of The Evening Sun. (Source: Newspapers.com)
Edith had married one of the countrys leading zoologists in Reynold, but a figure from the past tugged at her heart — at least, thats how a back cover of a paperback romance would read. Would Edith remain the professors wife or run off with the brooding philosopher?
Christmas of 1920 came and went. Robert did not meet Edith in New York. He wrote her again and complimented her articles.
*All comes of being a scientists wife; what should you become as a philosophers?*
Legal trouble had emerged in Philadelphia to complicate their romance. His letters mentioned detectives, lawyers, money, and someone named “Wips,” of alien-enemy status. The term applied to [Germans living in the U.S. during World War I](https://www.archives.gov/research/immigration/enemy-aliens/ww1#:~:text=For%20individuals%20termed%20%E2%80%9Calien%20enemies,of%20additional%20parameters%20and%20processes.).
He assured Edith that she would not be dragged into the scandal. The court case would present new characters and reveal the tragic secret of a wealthy heiress — a story for another time.
By the spring of 1921, it was clear their romance had evolved into a close friendship. Roberts letters no longer smoldered with urgency and desire. And there was another woman on the scene. Her name with a “B” was illegible.
On May 26, 1921, Robert wrote Edith to square up matters.
*We want strength from each other, but to use in divergent causes instead of a common cause. You have your relationship with Ren, which as such is nothing in my life; I, my flirtation with B—, which as such is nothing in yours.*
![Excerpt from a letter written by R.](https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/resizer/IiDwl0BskCxZJlwo_-8cn2FNsRs=/1280x0/filters:quality(70):format(jpg)/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/baltimorebanner/XI2VZNCYPZE3LO6AX7J5CCTHG4.png)
Excerpt from a letter written by R.
He sounded hurt and resigned in these later letters.
*Before last September the world was all affection; now it is all interests. The change is radical and one doesnt adapt.*
His letters to Edith had spanned almost one year. The boxs final letter was dated June 8, 1921.
## Chapter Five: A Baltimore ending
Robert wrote that he might visit Woods Hole, Massachusetts, where Edith and her family spent their summers. He wrote that he could stay in his tent.
*Tell me whether I shall have it sent up.*
Was he asking her for an invitation? His letters end abruptly.
This was no paperback romance. Real life does not tie up all the loose ends.
The research by Meade, her neighbors and The Banner sketches out an epilogue. A decade after that last letter, Robert married [Miriam OBrien](https://goeast.ems.com/miriam-underhill-womens-work/). They had two sons.
He would be remembered as [a pioneer of American mountaineering](https://publications.americanalpineclub.org/articles/12198434400/Robert-Lindley-Murray-Underhill-1889-1983). In 1931, his team climbed the [east face of Californias Mt. Whitney](http://www.thehighsierra.org/east_face_of_mt_whitney.htm), the highest peak in the contiguous U.S. — a feat that had been considered impossible.
The nonprofit American Alpine Club, in Golden, Colorado, presented an annual award in Roberts name. Two years ago, the club renamed the prize because of [antisemitic slurs in his later letters](https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/climbing/robert-underhill-antisemitism-climbing-award-rename-aac/).
Edith, meanwhile, moved to then-Siam with Reynold and their children
In a photo attached to her 1924 passport application before she left, she has bobbed hair, round horn-rimmed glasses and a loose necktie, the boyish fashion of the Roaring Twenties. She sits next to their two children and eyes the camera skeptically — or maybe thats mild amusement.
![A photo of Edith E. Taussig with her children Walter and Elinor that was attached to a 1924 passport application.](https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/resizer/DonBDx7EM4mOBdy-290r66OZdbc=/1280x0/filters:quality(70):format(jpg)/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/baltimorebanner/WDZJCSMX3FGZXA5KGQ3VZXYYKU.png)
Edith with her children, Walter and Elinor, as photographed for her 1924 passport application.
Reynold had accepted a job at a medical school in Bangkok and was studying the native gibbons. Within a year, he became ill and died of blood poisoning.
”Famous scientist is victim of Septicemia — was studying monkeys of Siam,” the newspapers reported.
Widowed, Edith returned to Baltimore, for a time living in what is now Meades home. She raised her son and daughter, gave up journalism and worked as a medical librarian in Washington, D.C. She later moved to California and died in September 1968, at age 80.
Roberts letters present a year of his inner life, but what had this period meant to Edith? His words did not reveal an answer, but together the letters provide one clue.
All those years she saved the bundle and stashed it away, one more secret within the old houses of Baltimore.
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# The Billionaire Playbook: How Sports Owners Use Their Teams to Avoid Millions in Taxes
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At a concession stand at Staples Center in Los Angeles, Adelaide Avila was pingponging between pouring beers, wiping down counters and taking out the trash. Her Los Angeles Lakers were playing their hometown rival, the Clippers, but Avila was working too hard to follow the March 2019 game.
When she filed taxes for her previous years labors at the arena and her second job driving for Uber, the 50-year-old Avila reported making $44,810. The federal government took a 14.1% cut.
On the court that night, the players were also hard at work. None more so than LeBron James. The Lakers star was suffering through a painful strained groin injury, but he still put up more points and played more minutes than any other player.
In his tax return, James reported making $124 million in 2018. He paid a federal income tax rate of 35.9%. Not surprisingly, it was more than double the rate paid by Avila.
The wealthiest person in the building that night, in all likelihood, was Steve Ballmer, owner of the Clippers. The evening was decidedly less arduous for the billionaire former CEO of Microsoft. He sat courtside, in a pink dress shirt and slacks, surrounded by friends. His legs were outstretched, his shoes almost touching the sideline.
Ballmer had reason to smile: His Clippers won. But even if they hadnt, his ownership of the team was reaping him massive tax benefits.
For the prior year, Ballmer reported making $656 million. The dollar figure he paid in taxes was large, $78 million; but as a percentage of what he made, it was tiny. Records reviewed by ProPublica show his federal income tax rate was just 12%.
Thats a third of the rate James paid, even though Ballmer made five times as much as the superstar player. Ballmers rate was also lower than Avilas — even though Ballmers income was almost 15,000 times greater than the concession workers.
Ballmer pays such a low rate, in part, because of a provision of the U.S. tax code. When someone buys a business, theyre often able to deduct almost the entire sale price against their income during the ensuing years. That allows them to pay less in taxes. The underlying logic is that the purchase price was composed of assets — buildings, equipment, patents and more — that degrade over time and should be counted as expenses.
But in few industries is that tax treatment more detached from economic reality than in professional sports. Teams most valuable assets, such as TV deals and player contracts, are virtually guaranteed to regenerate because sports franchises are essentially monopolies. Theres little risk that players will stop playing for Ballmers Clippers or that TV stations will stop airing their games. But Ballmer still gets to deduct the value of those assets over time, almost $2 billion in all, from his taxable income.
This allows Ballmer to perform a kind of financial magic trick. If he profits from the Clippers, he can — legally — inform the IRS that he is losing money, thus saving vast sums on his taxes. If the Clippers are unprofitable in a given year, he can tell the IRS hes losing vastly more.
Glimpses of the Clippers real-world financial results show the business has often been profitable. Those include audited financials disclosed in a Bank of America report just before Ballmer bought the team, as well as NBA records that were leaked after he became owner.
But IRS records obtained by ProPublica show the Clippers have reported $700 million in losses for tax purposes in recent years. Not only does Ballmer not have to pay tax on any real-world Clippers profits, he can use the tax write-off to offset his other income.
How a Billionaire Team Owner Pays a Lower Tax Rate Than LeBron James — and Stadium Workers, Too
A massive tax break allows owners to report huge losses to the IRS, even if their teams are profitable, and save themselves hundreds of millions.
Credit: Mauricio Rodríguez Pons, Nadia Sussman, Joe Singer and Almudena Toral/ProPublica and Kristyn Hume for ProPublica
Ballmer isnt alone. ProPublica reviewed tax information for dozens of team owners across the four largest American pro sports leagues. Owners frequently report incomes for their teams that are millions below their real-world earnings, according to the tax records, previously leaked team financial records and interviews with experts.
They include Shahid Khan, an automotive tycoon who made use of at least $79 million in losses from a stake in the Jacksonville Jaguars even as his football team has consistently been projected to bring in millions a year. And Leonard Wilf, a New Jersey real estate developer who owns the Minnesota Vikings with family members, has taken $66 million in losses from his minority stake in the team.
In a statement, Khan responded: “Were a nation of laws. U.S. Congress passes them. In the case of tax laws, the IRS applies and enforces the regulations, which are absolute. We simply and fully comply with those very IRS regulations.” Wilf didnt respond to questions.
Ballmers spokesperson declined to answer specific questions, but said “Steve has always paid the taxes he owes, and has publicly noted that he would personally be fine with paying more.”
These revelations are part of what ProPublica has unearthed in a [trove of tax information](https://www.propublica.org/series/the-secret-irs-files) for the wealthiest Americans. ProPublica has already revealed that billionaires are paying [shockingly little](https://www.propublica.org/article/the-secret-irs-files-trove-of-never-before-seen-records-reveal-how-the-wealthiest-avoid-income-tax) to the government by avoiding the types of income that can be taxed.
The records also show how some of the richest people on the planet use their membership in the exclusive club of pro sports team owners to further lower their tax bills.
The records upend conventional wisdom about how taxation works in America. Billionaire owners are consistently paying lower tax rates than their millionaire players — and often lower even than the rates paid by the workers who staff their stadiums. The massive reductions on personal tax bills that owners glean from their teams come on top of the much-criticized subsidies the teams get from local governments for new stadiums and further deplete federal coffers that fund everything from the military to medical research to food stamps and other safety net programs.
Ultrawealthy Sports Owners Often Pay a Substantially Lower Income Tax Rate Than Athletes
A review of federal tax records from 2017 and 2018 shows that the tax code favors team owners over wage-earning athletes. Here are some prominent examples:
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“Mr. DeVos complies with all federal, state and local tax laws and pays his obligations in full,” a spokesperson for Daniel DeVos said in a statement, adding, “I dont intend to comment on the accuracy or inaccuracy of any data obtained illegally.” Representatives for Philip Anschutz, Anthony Davis, Josh Harris and LeBron James declined to comment. Representatives for Stan Kroenke, Justin Verlander and Tiger Woods did not respond to inquiries by ProPublica. A representative for John Henry declined to receive questions about his taxes. Floyd Mayweathers tax lawyer, Jeffrey Morse, declined to comment about the boxers tax numbers, but in response to questions about the fairness of athletes paying higher rates than owners, he said, “It is a discussion worth having.”
Figures above reflect adjusted gross income for 2017 and 2018 added together. The tax rates were calculated using the total federal income taxes paid during those two years, including both the employees and employers share of payroll taxes.
Credit: Lucas Waldron/ProPublica
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The history of team ownership as a way to avoid taxes goes back almost a century. Bill Veeck, owner of the Cleveland Indians in the 1940s and later the Chicago White Sox, stated it plainly in his memoir: “Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes too?”
Veeck is credited with convincing the IRS to accept a tax maneuver even he described as a “gimmick.” Player salaries were already treated as a deductible business expense for a team. That was not controversial in the slightest.
But Veeck dreamed up an innovation, a way to get a second tax deduction for the same players: depreciation. The way he accomplished this was by separately buying the contracts before the old company was liquidated, instead of transferring them to the new company as had been done before. That meant that the contracts were treated as a separate asset. The value a new owner assigned to that asset when he bought the team could be used to offset taxes on team profits, as well as any other income he might have. (Defenders of the practice contend that its not double-dipping since the deductions are taken against two separate pools of money: the money used to purchase the team and the day-to-day operating budget.)
Team owners, Veeck wrote in his memoir, had won “a tax write-off that could have been figured out by a Texas oilman. It wasnt figured out by a Texas oilman. It was figured out by a Chicago hustler. Me.”
Once the IRS accepted this premise, the natural next step — owners assigning as large a portion of the total team purchase price as possible to player contracts — was elevated into a sport of its own. Decades ago, Paul Beeston, who was president of the Toronto Blue Jays and president of Major League Baseball at various times, famously described the result: “Under generally accepted accounting principles, I could turn a $4 million profit into a $2 million loss and I could get every national accounting firm to agree with me.”
The depreciation of tangible assets, and their decay over time, is often intuitive. A machine in a factory and a fleet of cars have more obvious fair market values and life spans before business owners will have to pay to replace them. Take, for example, a newspaper business with a printing press that cost $10 million and will last for, say, 20 years. The idea of depreciation is that the newspaper owner could deduct a piece of that $10 million every year for the 20-year lifespan of the press.
But amortization, the term for depreciating nonphysical assets, was less straightforward. Sports teams are often mainly composed of these assets. Valuing and assigning a life span to a player contract or a TV deal was more subjective and thus vulnerable to aggressive tax maneuvers by team owners.
Several NBA teams claimed that more than 90% — in one case, 100% — of their value consisted of player contracts that could be written off on the owners taxes, according to league financials that emerged in an early 1970s congressional investigation.
By that time the IRS had begun a series of [challenges](https://www.quimbee.com/cases/selig-v-united-states) of valuation methods by team owners, part of a larger fight across industries about how business owners should be allowed to write off so-called intangible assets. The tax agency insisted that companies should only be able to write off assets with a limited useful life.
In an effort to stop the endless litigation, Congress inaugurated the modern era of amortization by simplifying the rules in 1993: Under the new regime, the purchaser of a business would be allowed, over the span of 15 years, to write off more types of intangible assets. This might have been welcome news for the sports business. But Congress explicitly excluded the industry from the law.
Following lobbying by Major League Baseball, in 2004, sports teams were granted the right to use this deduction as part of a tax bill signed by President George W. Bush, himself a former part owner of the Texas Rangers. Now, team owners could write off the price they paid not just for player contracts, but also a range of other items such as TV and radio contracts and even goodwill, an amorphous accounting concept that represents the value of a business reputation. Altogether, those assets typically amount to 90% or more of the price paid for a team.
That means when billionaires buy teams, the law allows them to treat almost all of what they bought, including assets that dont lose value, as deteriorating over time. A teams franchise rights, which never expire, automatically get treated like a pharmaceutical companys patent on a blockbuster drug, which has a finite life span. In reality, the right to operate a franchise in one of the major leagues has in the last few decades been a license to print money: In the past two decades, the average value of basketball, football, baseball and hockey teams has grown by more than 500%.
ProPublica uncovered the tax breaks used by team owners by dissecting reports sent to the IRS that capture the profit or loss of a business. Still, untangling the precise benefits can be difficult. For example, some owners hold their team stakes in companies that also had unrelated assets — a corporate nesting doll that makes it impossible to determine the losses a team produced. The examples mentioned in this article are instances in which it appears the owners did not intermingle assets and the teams ownership structure is clear based on ProPublicas analysis of the tax records, court documents, corporate registration data and news reports.
Amortization allows sports team owners to take nearly all of the team purchase price as a tax deduction. Heres how it works.
Lets say, for example, that you purchase a sports team for $2 billion.
Typically about 90% of that purchase price, or $1.8 billion, is amortizable, which means its treated like an asset that loses value over time — and can be expensed.
This means that under the tax code, over the next 15 years you can claim a $120 million expense for your sports team business each year.
Lets say your sports team makes $50 million per year and you have other sources of income that add $150 million on top of that.
Normally, youd pay almost 40% of your income in taxes.
However, with amortization, you can remove $120 million from your income, which means you dont have to pay taxes on it.
Then, you only pay taxes on the rest. You save about $45 million in taxes each year — or $650 million over 15 years.
In some cases, owners can write off even more than 90% of the purchase price.
Credit: Agnes Chang/ProPublica
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When Steve Ballmer offered to buy the Clippers in 2014 for a record sum, the teams longtime owner, Donald Sterling, was taken aback.
“Im curious about one thing,” Sterling said at a meeting later recounted by his lawyer.
“Of course, what is the question?” Ballmer responded.
Sterling proceeded: “You really have $2 billion?”
The size of the offer was impressive considering the context. In 1981, Sterling had paid $12.5 million for the club. In the three decades that followed, Sterling had become notorious for neglecting and mistreating the team. He didnt provide a training facility for years, forcing the team to practice at the gym of a local junior college. He heckled his own players during games. After games, Sterling was said to parade friends through the locker room so they could gawk at the players bodies.
But even Sterlings mismanagement couldnt stop the Clippers rise in value. Players kept signing with the Clippers — drafted rookies because they typically have no other option if they want to play in the NBA and veterans because there are a finite number of teams to choose from.
TV deals also grew in value. The Clippers had little fan support, and they oscillated between being league bottom-dwellers and a middling franchise. But before Sterling sold the team, the Clippers were expected to sign a new local media deal worth two to three times more than their previous deal.
The beginning of the end of Sterlings tenure came when he was recorded by his mistress telling her not to bring Black people to Clippers games. The NBA moved to force Sterling out. Ballmer swooped in, outbidding Oprah Winfrey and others. (ProPublica couldnt reach Sterling for comment. His wife, Shelly, who co-owned the Clippers with him, defended their tenure in emails to ProPublica, saying they werent the only owners whose team didnt own a practice facility and suggesting her husband did not heckle players. “I GUESS WHEN THERE IS NOTHING TO WRITE ABOUT WHY NOT TRY TO WRITE SOME SCUM,” she wrote.)
Ballmer, one of the richest people in the world, wasnt just motivated by his love for basketball. He expected the team to be profitable. “Its not a cheap price, but when youre used to looking at tech companies with huge risk, no earnings and huge multiples, this doesnt look like the craziest thing Ive ever acquired,” he said at the time. “Theres much less risk. Theres real earnings in this business.”
Two years later, as the league negotiated a new contract with the players union, Ballmer portrayed the teams finances in a much different light. “Im a new owner and Ive heard this is the golden age of basketball economics. You should tell our finance people that,” he told a reporter in 2016. “Were sitting there looking at red ink, and its real red ink. I know, it shows up on my tax returns.”
But losses on a tax return dont necessarily mean losses, as large or at all, in the real world.
Ballmer was acquiring a team that had skyrocketed in value over the previous decade. And there was the benefit for his taxes: He was allowed to start treating the Clippers — including those player contracts and TV deals — as if they were losing value.
From 2014 to 2018, records show Ballmer reported a total of $700 million in losses from his ownership of the Clippers, almost certainly composed mainly of paper losses from amortization.
The evidence examined by ProPublica showed the Clippers have often been profitable, though many of the glimpses into the teams finances are from before Ballmer took over. Leaked NBA records during Ballmers tenure showed the Clippers in the black as recently as 2017. Audited financials disclosed in the Bank of America report just before the sale showed the team netting $14 million and $18 million in the two years before Ballmer took over, with projected growth in the future. Tax records for the pre-Ballmer era examined by ProPublica showed the team consistently making millions in profits. [Forbes](https://www.forbes.com/sites/kurtbadenhausen/2021/02/10/nba-team-values-2021-knicks-keep-top-spot-at-5-billion-warriors-bump-lakers-for-second-place/?sh=4a06af1a645b) has also estimated the team generates millions in annual profits.
Nevertheless, Ballmer reported staggering losses from the Clippers to the IRS. Those losses allowed him to reduce the taxes he owed on the billions he has reaped from Microsoft stock sales and dividends. Owning the Clippers cut his tax bill by about $140 million in just five years, according to a ProPublica analysis.
Team Values Across Professional Sports Leagues Have Increased for the Past 20 Years
On average, major sports franchises have consistently increased in value over the past two decades, according to estimates by Forbes.
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National Sports Law Institute of Marquette University Law School and Forbes (Note: Forbes did not provide data for the NHL for 2005.) Credit: Lucas Waldron/ProPublica
Unlike billionaire team owners, millionaire players are virtually guaranteed to pay a large share of their income in taxes.
The law favors people who are rich because they own things over people who are rich because they make a high income from their work. Wages — the main source of income for most people, including athletes — are taxed at the highest rates of all, topping out at a marginal rate of 37% plus an extra 3.8% for Medicare. The government takes a smaller share of money made from, say, selling a stock. Thats not to mention the benefits available to people who own businesses, such as the paper losses created by buying a sports team. 
So while Ballmers tax rate for 2018 was 12% on his $656 million of income, Lakers star Anthony Davis paid 40% that year on $35 million of income. Golfer Tiger Woods made $22 million and paid 34%. Boxer Floyd Mayweather paid more than 37% on his $53 million income. Star Houston Astros pitcher Justin Verlander made $30 million and paid a 39% cut.
(In each instance in which ProPublica refers to “income” in this article, we are referring to adjusted gross income, which the IRS defines as earnings minus certain items like alimony or student loan interest payments. We calculated tax rates the way government agencies and many economists do, by including not just the Medicare and Social Security taxes automatically taken out of workers paychecks, but also the share employers are required to pay for those programs on behalf of their employees. The rationale for including the employers share as part of the employees tax burden is that employers pay less in wages because of these costs. These levies make up most of the tax burden for the typical worker, a low but still significant percentage for millionaire players, but a negligible share or nothing for billionaires like Ballmer who typically dont take salaries and other forms of income these taxes apply to.)
In a few cases, star players have bought pieces of pro sports teams. But that doesnt automatically get them the low rates enjoyed by the typical billionaire owner. Basketball great Michael Jordan, for instance, owns the NBAs Charlotte Hornets and a tiny stake in the Miami Marlins baseball team. His share of the Hornets produced $3.6 million in tax losses in 2015, even though the team was estimated to be in the black that year. He still makes a large portion of his money from Nike though, which is taxed at a high rate. That year, for example, he paid 38% in federal taxes on $114 million in income. Jordans spokeswoman declined to answer specific questions.
Ballmers tax advantages reduce the revenue flowing to the federal government. At the same time, he has publicly bemoaned the perils of having a government that spends more than it takes in. He has founded a nonprofit, USA Facts, that provides data on government spending. “Nobody wants to sacrifice anything in the short term so that we dont leave these huge debt and deficits to our children,” [he told](https://www.foxbusiness.com/features/steve-ballmer-government-lacks-courage-to-balance-budget) Fox Business three years ago. “That drives me crazy.”
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Perhaps the savviest tax play for billionaires interested in pro sports is buying a football team. Financial analysts believe its exceedingly difficult to lose money running an NFL franchise. “I think the NFL is the only sport where each team is profitable and viable,” said mining tycoon Alan Kestenbaum, now a part owner of the Atlanta Falcons, in an interview with Bloomberg.
The NFLs TV ratings dominance, easily surpassing the NBA and other major leagues, is at the center of the sports money machine. Each of the 32 teams — from the small-market Buffalo Bills to the behemoth Dallas Cowboys — takes an equal share of national revenue, mostly derived from broadcasting deals. In 2019 alone those deals generated $9.5 billion, divided into $296 million slices for each team. The league recently re-upped its contracts with the networks and added Amazons Prime Video streaming service in an 11-year, $105 billion deal. On the expense side of the ledger, the biggest line item, player salaries, is limited since the league enforces whats known as a hard salary cap.
Those two sources of profitability drove the record $2.3 billion price of the last NFL team to change hands, the Carolina Panthers. But the sale triggered a dramatic swing in how the teams finances were reported to the IRS, records show. The Panthers suddenly went from producing large profits to suffering major losses.
The Panthers were built into a thriving business by Jerry Richardson, a onetime NFL player turned fast food restaurant magnate, who was awarded the expansion franchise in the early 1990s. In addition to its share of the leagues national TV deals, the team quickly built up another major revenue source, selling out virtually every game to an enthusiastic local fan base in Charlotte. Success followed on the field. By 2016, led by MVP quarterback Cam Newton, the Panthers won the NFC Championship and made the Super Bowl.
With the amortization benefit from the early years of the team used up, the Panthers produced millions of profits every year, with margins growing annually in the five years through 2017, tax records of Richardson and several previous minority owners show. ProPublica estimated the teams annual income based on the tax information of a complex web of team entities, as well as leaked financial statements published by [Deadspin](https://deadspin.com/carolina-panthers-organizational-chart-and-entity-listi-5989285).
That year, after Richardson was at the center of a lurid racism and sexual harassment [scandal](https://www.si.com/nfl/2017/12/17/jerry-richardson-carolina-panthers-settlements-workplace-misconduct-sexual-harassment-racial-slur), he announced he was putting the team on the auction block. Several billionaires put in bids.
The winning bidder was David Tepper, founder of the hedge fund Appaloosa Management. Tepper, who made his fortune trading distressed debt and once hired Ashlee Simpson to play his daughters bat mitzvah, is now the leagues richest owner.
The $2.3 billion Tepper paid would produce amortization expenses of around $140 million per year, according to the IRS general guidelines. That annual expense would wipe out any Panthers profits for tax purposes.
The team swung from a large taxable profit before its sale to a tax loss of about $115 million, according to a ProPublica analysis of IRS records, after Teppers purchase in 2018. Theres no evidence anything significant about the Panthers real-world revenue and expenses changed between 2017 and 2018. The only major difference is the team changed hands, and Tepper now gets a tax benefit through his new entity, Tepper Sports Holdings.
Teppers hedge fund is a massive producer of capital gains income — in the past decade, he has often reported more than $1 billion in annual income — so the tax losses produced by the Panthers are extremely valuable to him. A spokesman for Tepper didnt respond to questions.
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The same year Tepper bought the Panthers, the NHLs newest hockey team, the Las Vegas Golden Knights, accomplished what only one expansion team had done before by making it to the league finals in its inaugural season. Since then, the Golden Knights have continued to win. Off the ice, theyve been among the best in the NHL at motivating fans to spend money on team apparel, and the Golden Knights have consistently sold out their home games.
The teams owner, William Foley, the chairman of insurance giant Fidelity National Financial, made it clear he wasnt in the business of losing money. “We developed a conservative business plan,” Foley [told](https://lvsportsbiz.com/2017/10/16/golden-knights-owner-foley-says-revenues-trending-budgeted-amounts-seeks-take-brand-international/) a reporter in 2017, the first year the team played. “I didnt want to write $20 million checks every year.” He likely didnt have to. Forbes estimated millions in profit for the team from 2017 to 2019.
But for tax purposes, records show, the team produced losses of more than $57 million during those years. That was thanks in part to the teams ability to write off the $500 million expansion fee that Foley paid to the NHL in 2016.
In a statement to ProPublica, Golden Knights Chief Legal Officer Peter Sadowski did not respond to questions about amortization. He did respond to a question about one of the teams income streams, noting that the money from season ticket deposits was “used to pay rent, to employ hundreds of people, provide outstanding entertainment and create a source of pride for our community.”
The Golden Knights tax losses helped offset the money Foley made from his other ventures, saving him more than $12 million in taxes over two years, according to a ProPublica analysis.
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The value of sports franchises, as noted, tends to rise inexorably — but teams sometimes lose money along the way. Internal NBA records [obtained](https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/20747413/a-confidential-report-shows-nearly-half-nba-lost-money-last-season-now-what) by ESPN in 2017 showed that the leagues clubs were averaging almost $18 million in net income that season. But nine of the 30 clubs were in the red.
Even when a team spends more than it takes in, an owner can still end up on top. The amortization benefit can turn a loss into an even larger loss, which can then be used to offset other income and save money on taxes.
For example, Dan Gilbert, founder of Quicken Loans, was able to lower his taxable income by about $443 million from 2005 to 2018 because of his stake in the Cleveland Cavaliers, tax records show. In that same period, the team reached the pinnacle, winning its first-ever NBA championship in 2016.
In [emails](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/20984918-gilbert-response) to ProPublica, Gilberts lawyer wrote that the team consistently loses money. “During the entire time after Mr. Gilberts purchase of the team, the Cavaliers has operated with an actual loss (negative cash flow/negative income) unrelated to any depreciation or amortization and there have been no funds to distribute to Mr. Gilbert or any other owner,” he wrote.
The tax write-off for amortization, Gilberts lawyer argued, is essential to all businesses, from restaurants to factories to sports franchises. Without it, he wrote, “there would be no capital investments made by owners and businesses would be taxed on revenue without properly taking into account all costs necessary to generate that revenue. That would be antithetical to capitalism and fatal to the United States economy.”
Gilberts lawyer added that the Cavaliers owner has paid “enormous” taxes for many years. He also wrote: “Your e-mail makes reference to other wage earners such as the players and their salaries. The facts are this: Mr. Gilbert is the only party referenced in your e-mail who has undertaken any risk. Mr. Gilbert has risked the purchase price paid for the Cavaliers, his subsequent capital contributions, the debt he has personally guaranteed and the players salaries which are guaranteed. ... To compare the guaranteed salaries of the Cavaliers players as an applicable measure of Mr. Gilberts tax rate is absurd.”
Advocates for team owners point out that when owners sell their teams, they have to pay back the taxes they avoided by using amortization. But even if owners ultimately repay the taxes they skipped, deferring payment of those taxes for years, sometimes decades, essentially amounts to an interest-free loan from taxpayers. An owner could reap huge gains by investing that money.
If owners die while holding their stake, as many do, the tax savings may never be repaid. And their heirs can generally restart the amortization cycle anew.
Bob Piccinini was a minority member of the group that purchased the Golden State Warriors in 2010. He made his fortune turning Modesto-based Save Mart Supermarkets into the largest family-owned grocery chain in California. Already a part owner of multiple baseball teams, he entered the basketball world not because he had a particularly keen interest in the sport, but to make money. “Sports franchises continue to go up in value,” Piccinini [said](https://callcenterinfo.tmcnet.com/news/2011/03/25/5402608.htm) at the time.
His tax information shows he bought more than 7% of the Warriors. From 2011 to 2014, he reported total losses of $16 million. Nearly a decades worth of tax data from other Warriors owners, also reviewed by ProPublica, showed many millions in losses — all of it during a period when the team rose to become historically dominant. Meanwhile, leaked financials obtained by ESPN from 2017 show the Warriors to be an extremely profitable business, netting $92 million in one season alone. Forbes estimates also put the team well in the black during that period. A Warriors spokesperson declined to answer a series of specific questions, instead providing a one-sentence statement: “Over the course of the last decade, we have invested hundreds of millions of dollars into our team on the court, our overall operation and, of course, the construction and opening of a new, 100 percent privately financed arena in San Francisco.”
Piccinini died in 2015. The court records about the inheritance he left his children dont specifically mention his stake in the team or whether his estate paid taxes following his death. But the tax code likely would have allowed his children never to repay the government for the paper losses their father enjoyed. It would also have permitted Piccinnis heirs to begin claiming paper losses of their own.
In the years since, Piccininis son, Dominic, has been a courtside regular at Warriors games. An occasional actor in his 20s, Dominic has an Instagram profile that shows him high-fiving Stephen Curry and other players midgame and posing for photos with rappers including Drake and E-40. In 2019, he and a friend went viral when ESPN panned to them drinking from golden chalices.
In an interview, Dominic told ProPublica that he allowed his familys lawyers to handle the tax details of his inheritance, which granted him and his siblings equal shares of their fathers stake in the Warriors.
“Its just the darndest thing,” he said in a phone call from a vacation in Mexico. “Im a lucky son of a bitch, theres no way around it.”
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# The professor, the caregiver and the missing $30 million
When William Waters was a newborn, his mother placed him in a basket and abandoned him on the front steps of an orphanage. It was 1932, the nadir of the Great Depression, and few families in Orangeville—then a rural town of 2,600—were in a position to adopt. So little Bill went home with the only woman who offered to take him: a 51-year-old seamstress named Edith Waters. Single and childless, she doted on her son and, as he grew older, encouraged his entrepreneurial spirit.
As a boy, Waters worked three paper routes and built a chicken coop in his backyard. After high school, he ran a local taxi company and found entry-level work in the aerospace industry, earning enough to enrol at the University of Toronto. He then pursued a PhD in economics at the University of Chicago, where he dated a bright young English student named Phyllis Reimann. The couple were married in 1968 and settled in Toronto, where Waterss alma mater offered him a teaching job.
Waters was a popular professor—erudite and impish, with a rotating wardrobe of tweed jackets and a knack for making macroeconomics entertaining. In 1982, he became the first academic director of the executive MBA program at what is now the Rotman School of Management. He took an interest in his students lives, accompanying them to the pub after class and keeping in touch with alumni. Former pupils frequently asked him to invest in their start-ups. Most fizzled, but one business, an investment-management technology company called Financial Models, took off. Based on its success, Waters founded a firm called Portfolio Analytics, which provided stock and bond data to banks and portfolio managers. By the mid-2000s, both companies were sold, netting Waters, then in his 70s and retired, a windfall of roughly $50 million.
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That much money would radically transform the average persons life. Waterss life mostly stayed the same. He and Phyllis, who never had children, stayed in their three-bedroom Tudor-style home near Yonge and Davisville. Waters attended the opera and dined at the members-only York Club, but he allowed himself few additional extravagances. He seemed more interested in giving his money away than in spending it. He donated upward of $10 million to U of T and millions more to a handful of hospitals around Toronto. He gifted a viola and bow worth $3.5 million to the TSO and helped finance the post-­secondary education of several waiters whod had the good fortune of serving him.
There was one dark spot in Waterss otherwise charmed life. In 1998, his wife fell down a flight of stairs. The accident left Phyllis bedridden, with chronic pain that robbed her of her mobility, her joy and her life as she knew it. She tried to ease the resulting depression with alcohol and prescription pills, which only made things worse. Before long, all traces of the old ­Phyllis—the cheery bookworm who loved going to the symphony and travelling the world—were gone. She became reclusive, eating, sleeping and watching TV alone in her bedroom.
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After Phyllis suffered a bad fall in 1998, she required constant care
Waters was Phylliss power of attorney, which meant he managed her money and made decisions about her health. He never lost hope that Phyllis would return to her former self. He sent her to the Mayo Clinic, spent more than $30,000 on an experimental pain-alleviating device called the Calmare and flew medical specialists up from the States to examine her. Nothing helped. Phyllis continued to deteriorate, as did their marriage. Crippled by pain, she pushed Waters away, turning her head whenever he tried to kiss her goodnight.
In the 2000s, Waters began hiring personal support workers to care for Phyllis. They didnt typically last long. She was a difficult charge, often refusing to bathe or brush her teeth. But, in 2009, Waters found a caregiver named Gillian Henry who seemed like she might stick. When Henry started caring for Phyllis that May, the two of them established a breezy rapport, chatting about Henrys kids—she had a 19-year-old son, Matthew, and a 13-year-old daughter, Noelle—and Phylliss favourite TV shows, *Greys Anatomy* and *Survivor*. Under Henrys watch, Phyllis seemed more chipper, less paralyzed by her pain and its attendant malaise.
As Phyllis improved, however, Waterss body began to fail him. Throughout the late 2000s and 2010s, he fought (and beat) lymphoma, suffered a minor stroke and required dialysis to manage kidney failure. Preparing his last will and testament, he was characteristically philanthropic. Waters set aside a few bequests for friends, but he wanted to leave the bulk of his wealth to U of T, the TSO, and a dozen other cultural and charitable institutions. Over the course of seven pages, he painstakingly laid out how the money should be used: first, to care for Phyllis, then to establish endowment funds, finance educational programs and create scholarships for students in need.
Waters died in July of 2021, at which point the trustees of his estate prepared to dispense the funds according to his wishes. But, when they opened his accounts, they discovered that his fortune had evaporated. As they pored over years of transfers and transactions, trying to figure out where the money had gone, they realized that all trails led to one person.
Gillian Henry prays daily, wears a crucifix necklace, pays tithes to her evangelical church and carries a battered red Bible. Her faith stems from her childhood in Georgetown, Guyana, where she grew up attending Sunday services with her parents and six older siblings.
When Henry was six years old, her mother moved to Canada, intending to plant roots so the rest of the family could join her. While they waited, the kids were left with their hard-drinking, mostly absent father. Unsupervised and unprotected, Henry and her sisters say they were repeatedly sexually abused by neighbours and relatives. Henry seemed ashamed about what happened to her as a girl, as if she thought the abuse were her fault. As she got older, she tried to forget, took refuge in her faith and focused on the positives in her life.
In the 1980s, at age 14, Henry moved to Scarborough to join her mother, but life in Canada had its own challenges. She was one of the only Black kids at her high school. She struggled with reading and dropped out in Grade 11 but later earned her GED. Her mom was a personal support worker, and she decided to become one too, first working at a daycare and then at a nursing home before being referred to Waters.
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##### When Waters hired Henry as his wifes caregiver, she was 39 and struggling. As of her first shift, she had just $57 in her bank account
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When Henry was hired, she was 39 and struggling. Shed previously separated from Matthews father, and now she was in the middle of a protracted divorce from Noelles dad. She owned a house in suburban Whitby, but the property had three mortgages against it that exceeded its value. Shed borrowed money from her parents to keep up with interest payments, and now she owed them $114,000. As of her first shift, she had $57 in her bank account.
Henry started as Phylliss nighttime aide, rounding out a staff that included a weekday PSW, a weekend caregiver and a private chef. Six nights a week, Henry would arrive around 6 p.m., bring dinner to Phylliss bedroom on the second floor, bathe her and then prep her for bed. Once Phyllis was asleep, Waters often invited Henry into the living room for a cup of tea. Then 77, he was physically frail but mentally sharp, and he told Henry stories from his younger years: growing up in Orangeville, studying in Chicago, working at U of T. Mostly, though, he asked Henry about her life.
Waters quickly discovered the severity of Henrys monetary troubles. Ever the altruist, he offered to help. During the first few weeks of Henrys employment, her son wrecked her second-hand Honda Accord, so she borrowed her moms car to get to work. When Waters asked why she was driving a different vehicle, she told him about the accident. According to Henry, he transferred her more than $100,000 and told her to buy a Mercedes.
Henry had never seen that kind of money. Her annual salary, paid by Waters, was $60,000. She assumed the transfer was a loan, but she never asked. Rather, she promptly purchased a new Mercedes SUV for over $80,000. She used another $14,000 to pay down some of her bills, and then, despite the tsunami of debt crashing up against her empty bank account, she spent $4,000 of the leftover funds at Peoples Jewellers in Oshawa. The splurge hardly mattered. A lot more cash was about to come her way.
The volume of money currently flowing down through the generations—from those born before 1965 to those born after—is so vast that the phenomenon has its own nickname: the Great Wealth Transfer. In Canada, its estimated that the well-heeled Silent Generation and affluent baby boomers will leave $1 trillion to their Gen X and millennial heirs by 2026. Much of that capital will change hands smoothly: an elderly mother leaving her son her savings, a dying dad divvying up his assets equally among his children. But plenty of it will not.
The Department of Justice estimates that one in 10 Canadians over the age of 65 are victims of crime every year, most often in the form of financial exploitation. Greedy kids pressure their senile parents for cash. Nefarious nephews write themselves into wills. Kimberly Whaley, the founding partner of Toronto-based estate litigation firm WEL Partners, says that when clients call her, they often think they have a unique story. “They say, Youre not going to believe this. My aunt got married at the mall, and all of her assets got transferred to the UPS delivery person,’ ” she says. “I hear a variation of it every single solitary day.”
Whaleys colleague John Poyser has specialized in cases like these for more than 20 years. For perpetrators, he says, financial elder abuse is so appealing because it yields huge rewards with little risk. “If you try to rob a bank, there are guards and cameras. Police will show up instantly,” he says. “But, if you take advantage of your uncle, there are no guards, no cameras. No ones going to come to try to stop it.” When fraudsters get found out, the courts sometimes order them to return the money, but criminal charges are rare. As Poyser puts it, “Its the modern version of a heist.”
Waters would have been the perfect mark. He had a fortune, no family to give it to and a soft spot for underdogs. Henry, meanwhile, was a single mother in desperate need of cash. The situation was ripe for abuse. But, the way Henry tells it, she—not Waters—was the one being exploited.
Once Waters grasped the full scope of her fiscal woes, she says, he offered her enough money to consolidate her debts and make him the sole lender. That way, instead of having to send the bulk of her biweekly paycheques to three separate mortgage providers—two of them private lenders who charged astronomical interest—Henry could repay Waters at a more reasonable rate. On June 2, 2009, Waters transferred Henry $400,000, which she used to repay her parents and lighten some, but not all, of her other liabilities. Once again, she carved out enough cash to go on a shopping spree at a jewellery store, this time spending $11,000 in one go.
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Waters became a millionaire in his 70s and shared his wealth with several charities
After that, according to Henry, everything changed. On a Saturday night within a week or two of that transfer, she showed up to work as usual. She put Phyllis to bed and then tiptoed to the adjoining bedroom, where she slept. She kept her door cracked open in case Phyllis needed anything overnight and placed a toolbox against it to prevent the Waterses cat, Frankie, from pawing it open. Then she changed into her pyjamas and crawled into bed.
Before Henry fell asleep, she says, she heard footsteps ascending the stairs. According to Henry, the door creaked open, noisily dragging the toolbox across the wooden floor, and then Waters walked in, sat at her bedside and began rubbing her hands. When she asked what he was doing, he assured her everything would be fine. Then, she alleges, he pulled the duvet down and slid his hands under her pyjamas before taking one of her hands and placing it on his penis. Henry claims she told him to stop. Instead, she says, Waters told her that, if she resisted, he would take back the $400,000.
From then on, she says, she understood that, once Phyllis had fallen asleep, Waters expected her to have sex with him. She dreaded it, but in her words, she “gave in,” responding to his transgressions the only way she knew how—by freezing up, shutting down, moving on. She felt like she had as a child, like the abuse was somehow her fault. She claims that Waters eventually apologized. Deprived of affection from Phyllis, he was lonely, and it had come out in a vile way. She says she forgave him because she had come to admire him—his generosity, curiosity and quick wit. He was a flawed but remarkable man. He had hurt her, yes, but hed also helped her.
And the help kept coming. In late June of 2009, Waters transferred Henry another $310,000 to pay down the remainder of her debts. Then, in July, he began quietly depositing lump sums into her bank account—$3,000 here, $6,000 there—each time telling her that hed left her a little surprise. He gave her a Visa card linked to his account and, she claims, told her to buy red lingerie and a $53,000 diamond ring. According to Henry, Waters put the ring on her finger, popped a bottle of champagne and told her that, once Phyllis passed away, the two of them would get married.
Whether or not Waters had assaulted Henry, what developed between them was an ongoing sexual relationship. Waterss medical records show that he was prescribed Cialis around the time Henry was hired. A doctors note spoke of Waterss new “gf,” saying, “He has one age 40, Nigerian—early days.” (Henry is Guyanese.) Waters occasionally took Henry to the opera, where, she says, he introduced her as his “special friend.” She also accompanied him to Ottawa in 2014, when he was awarded the Order of Canada in recognition of his philanthropy. The other guests assumed she was his caregiver.
Not long after Waters supposedly asked Henry to be his future wife, he made plans to send his existing wife away. Given Phylliss improvements under Henrys care, he wanted to wean her off alcohol and pills for good. He booked her a months-long stay at the Canyon, a luxury rehab centre in the arid mountains above Malibu with a swimming pool and a meditation dome. She arrived in late August of 2009.
Around that time, says Henry, Waters began encouraging her to pursue ambitions beyond caring for private clients. Why not open her own nursing home? Henry demurred. If not a nursing home, Waters apparently pressed, then what did she want to do with her life? Henry told him she wanted to build a real estate portfolio—to purchase properties, renovate them, and rent them out or sell them. Shed never had the money to pursue such ventures. According to her, Waters offered to change that. He invited her to survey the market and bring him listings she liked.
***Related:** [Meet the most charming fraudster in real estate](https://torontolife.com/deep-dives/the-most-charming-fraudster-ontario-gta-real-estate/)*
That summer, Henry hired a realtor and started looking at houses near her own in Whitby. She selected a charming three-bedroom, three-bathroom detached in Oshawa that was listed for $259,900. She says she printed the MLS page and presented it to Waters and that he agreed it had potential. She placed an offer of $250,000, and the sellers accepted. Waters covered the cost as well as $75,000 worth of renovations.
![The professor, the caregiver and the missing $30 million](https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/ELDER_FINAL2-368x0-c-default.jpg "Whitby home")
Henrys Whitby home was saddled with three mortgages when she met Waters
The process went so smoothly that, in November, they did it again. This time, Henry says, she showed Waters listings for both sides of an Oshawa semi-detached, and he provided the $345,000 purchase price. Then, in December, they added another property—a $300,000 corner lot in Whitby. Once again, Waters fronted the cash and Henry managed the day-to-day operations: hiring contractors, finding tenants and collecting thousands of dollars in rent, which she kept. If Waters had expectations about how to split the revenue, he never formalized them. On paper, the properties belonged to Henry.
In January of 2010, staff at the Canyon decided Phyllis was ready to go home. According to her discharge report, she was not only sober but had been the “life of the party” at the facility. Back in Toronto, Waters was overjoyed with Phylliss remarkable recovery. Shed loved California, so he began searching for a property along the Golden Coast, eventually buying a $1.3-­million retreat in Sea Ranch, California, in February of 2010. That month, when Phylliss daytime PSW left the Waterses employ, Henry became her full-time caregiver.
Waters asked Lindsay Histrop, his long-time estate planner, to add Henry to his will as a way to reward her for her excellent service and commitment to Phylliss care. Histrop had never heard Henrys name before, but the bequest didnt surprise her. She knew that Phylliss well-being was Waterss top priority and that he had struggled to find her a stable caregiver. It made sense that Waters would give Henry an incentive to stick around. To Histrop, this type of generosity was Waterss MO. She wrote Henry into the will and gave it little more thought.
After decades spent living paycheque to paycheque, Henry was suddenly a wealthy woman. On top of buying new properties, she improved her own, hiring contractors to renovate her kitchen and add a pool to her backyard. She bought a $50,000 Hummer for Matthew and a $40,000 showhorse for Noelle—the first of at least six steeds she would purchase with Waterss cash.
Like Waters, she also gave plenty of money to charity. She donated tens of thousands of dollars to her church and to SickKids. In 2010, she and Noelle flew to Guyana to refurbish an orphanage, donate to a convalescent home, fund a school meal program and hand out toys, stationery and other items to kids in Georgetown. In total, she donated about $1 million.
In April of 2010, Waters helped Henry buy another house—not an investment property but a new home of her own. He had already agreed to pay $30,000 per year to send Noelle to Pickering College, a private school in Newmarket, so Henry, trying to spare her daughter the daily drive from Whitby, was looking for a family home nearby. She found a 4,000-square-foot brick house with a big tree in the backyard. Waters agreed to provide the $765,000 she needed to buy it on the condition that the proceeds from the propertys eventual sale would fund Noelles post-secondary education.
According to Henry, Waters never liked her new house. If they were to live together as a married couple, he supposedly said, it should be in a bungalow, so thered be no risk of him falling down the stairs. And so, in March of 2011, she bought a one-storey, five-bedroom mansion in a gated community next to the Magna Golf Club in Aurora for $2 million. Waters provided a $700,000 down payment and guaranteed a mortgage for the remaining $1.3 million—Henry told Waters shed resell her other home to repay that mortgage, but she never did. She instead sunk another $2.5 million of Waterss money into renovations on the new place: redoing the kitchen, adding a pool and a basketball court, installing a home theatre. Before long, the property was worth twice as much as Waterss home in Toronto.
![The professor, the caregiver and the missing $30 million](https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/ELDER_FINAL5-368x0-c-default.jpg "Aurora mansion")
Henrys $2-million mansion in Aurora
Because Waterss money was spread among several different accounts—TFSAs, investments, savings, charitable funds and so on—and managed by a number of different advisers, no one initially knew just how much he was sending to Henry. But, when Waters started taking cash out of Phylliss account and borrowing against his home, an adviser at CIBC Wood Gundy reached out. Waters assured him that the money was for “investments” and that there was nothing to worry about. As more of Waterss millions flowed to Henry, the adviser felt compelled to broach the topic more directly. He warned Waters that Henry might be taking advantage of him—that she might never pay him back. Waters thanked him for his concern and again assured him that everything was fine.
Meanwhile, as Henry scouted, bought, renovated and leased out more properties, she spent less and less time caring for Phyllis—as little as one day a week at one point. Instead, Henry focused her efforts on finding a rural acreage where Noelle could board her horses. In late 2013, she settled on a $2.5-­million 139-acre lot in Uxbridge. The property was run down, the barn was leaky and the horse stalls were broken. Henry planned to pour money into it, presumably hoping to turn it into a profitable ranch business: horse owners would pay to use the grounds, rent stalls and take lessons.
Waters soon signed off on more than $5 million worth of renovations: more stalls, new riding arenas, a tuck shop in the garage. When the ranch opened, Henry named it King of Hearts Stable after one of Noelles horses. Noelle, who moved into one of two houses on the property in her early 20s, helped operate the business alongside seven other employees. By 2015, it was obvious that King of Hearts would never be the bustling equestrian business Henry had envisioned. They werent renting enough stalls or booking enough lessons to break even, never mind turning a profit. Soon, Waters was grumbling to friends about the money he was losing. When he mentioned it to a group of U of T alumni with whom he had regular dinners, they teased him: investing in a horse business, they said, was as good as digging a hole and shovelling money into it.
![The professor, the caregiver and the missing $30 million](https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/ELDER_FINAL7-368x0-c-default.jpg "King of Hearts Stable")
The $2.5-million King of Hearts Stable, which Henry believed would turn a profit
Waters also griped about King of Hearts to Histrop, his estate planner, so she asked him exactly how much money he had given to Henry. At that, she says, Waters looked out the window, paused and said Henry was “into him” for $5 million. Histrop suspected he was downplaying the amount. She made him promise he wouldnt give away any more money. Beyond that, her hands were tied. Solicitor-client privilege prevented her from telling others about Waterss financial affairs. She called the police anonymously, but they said that, if her client was of sound mind—and, by all accounts, Waters was—there was nothing they could do.
Histrop lost sleep trying to figure out what to do next. Waters had no family looking out for him, so she felt she needed to take drastic measures, even if it meant breaching privilege. She consulted the Law Society of Ontarios advisory services and emailed a number of Waterss friends and professional advisers, sharing, in vague terms, her concerns. As the responses trickled in, she realized she wasnt the only one who harboured concerns about Henry.
Histrop—whom Waters had appointed as one of two trustees of his estate—­contemplated an intervention, but it never materialized. Waterss kidneys were failing. In between dialysis sessions, he was often fatigued and ill. At age 85, he needed surgery to clear obstructed arteries. He also suffered a collapsed lung and kept contracting what he called the 100-day cold. Eventually, he stopped shaving his face and combing his hair and lost so much weight that his clothes no longer fit. With all of Waterss problems, it became impossible to pin him down to talk about his finances.
In 2018, Waterss doctor predicted he had six months to live and recommended that he and Phyllis, who was showing early signs of dementia, spend their final days in an assisted-living facility. Waters bought a spacious unit for the two of them in an Etobicoke retirement condominium called Hearthstone. Then, a few weeks before selling his house, he took out a $2.4-million mortgage on the property to make an “investment,” as he called it. Upon hearing this, Histrop confronted him again: What was going on? She urged him to get his money back from Henry. If Henry didnt repay him, Histrop advised, Waters should take her to court. Waters refused and repeated his go-to lines, this time with uncharacteristic hostility: he knew what he was doing, they were investments, Henry would pay him back. Resigned, Histrop let it go.
Henry continued caring for Phyllis when the couple moved to Hearthstone—at least until the pandemic hit in 2020. According to Histrop, she was caught using his fob to enter the building through the parking garage without signing in at the front desk, violating Hearthstones Covid policies. At that, Phylliss power of attorney—a doctor Waters had entrusted with her care when his own health worsened—fired Henry. Nonetheless, she and Waters spoke over the phone. On the evening of July 27, 2021, Waters, then 88, called Henry. It went to voicemail. “Hi, Gillian,” he said in a stilted message. “I hope youre doing better, because you werent so good yesterday. Call me anytime. Thanks for now. Bye bye, sweetheart.” He died the next day.
During his life, Waters joked that, though hed made his millions in computers, he had no idea how to use one. He was a man of pen and paper. He took handwritten notes on virtually every conversation, phone call and investment. Waters printed, photocopied and faxed tens of thousands of documents over the years, often filing the originals onto shelves or into labelled folders. He didnt own a cellphone or a laptop, so if he wanted to send an email, he either wrote down or dictated what he wanted to say to his secretary, who sent messages on his behalf.
After Waters died, the second trustee of his estate, Agnes Kussinger, an analyst whod worked for Waters since the 1970s, assumed the unenviable task of sorting through all the paperwork hed left behind. When she visited Waterss condo, she found notes everywhere. There were papers in piles on his desk, in stacks on the floor, in boxes in the closet. She wasnt surprised—that was simply how Waters was. Back when he was alive, shed asked him for details about the “investments” hed made with Henry. He told her that Henry had all the documents about the money hed given her. But, when Kussinger called Henry, she said no, all the paperwork was with Waters. At the time, the back-and-forth hadnt worried Kussinger, but that was about to change.
On one of his shelves, she found exactly what she was looking for: two folders labelled GH. Kussinger had put them there herself when shed helped Waters move into the unit. She hoped the pages inside would solve the mystery—that they would meticulously detail how much money he had given Henry, how every dollar had been spent, how much shed been expected to pay back. But the papers revealed nothing. There was no ledger, no list of properties bought and sold, just some handwritten notes with scattered mentions of transfers, property purchases and mortgages. It wasnt clear whether Waters had intended for the transfers to be gifts, loans or investments. It wasnt even clear how much money hed given Henry.
Kussinger kept digging. As one of the Waters estates trustees, she was responsible for settling his financial affairs and executing his will, which meant that she was permitted to access his financial accounts. As she sorted through reams of bank statements and Visa bills, she began to piece together the puzzle. The emerging picture was far worse than she could have imagined.
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##### Between 2009 and 2019, Waters transferred Henry roughly $30 million of his once considerable fortune. He died in debt
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Waters had transferred 98 per cent of his wealth to Henry, and shed spent it all. Shed taken trips with her family to France, Italy and Disney World and accumulated $2.5 million in charges—including more than $100,000 worth of jewellery—on the Visa card that Waters paid. Shed bought herself another Mercedes, a Jaguar and a Bentley, plus luxury vehicles for her son, daughter and sister. Waterss money had paid for Noelle to attend three different universities—Edinburgh, McMaster and Trent—and for Henrys failed foray into growing medical marijuana.
In 2011, she gifted one of her sisters half of an Oshawa semi shed purchased, then she bought it back from her three years later. At one point, Henry spent more than $1.2 million on a new house for her parents and then bought the house they were moving out of for $800,000. Matthew was living rent-free in Henrys original house—the one she told Waters shed sell to pay down the $1.3-million mortgage on her house in Aurora. Waters was the one who ultimately paid off that mortgage. As soon as he did, Henry took out a $1.3-­million home equity line of credit to give herself access to even more cash.
Between 2009 and 2019, the bank records made clear, Waters had transferred Henry money on 391 separate occasions, totalling $30 million. There was barely half a million dollars left in his accounts. In fact, he died in debt. He had drained Phylliss accounts to give Henry another $5.5 million, and now the estate had to pay that money back.
It didnt make any sense to Histrop. As recently as 2018, shed helped Waters update his will. All hed left Henry were some shares in a start-up that eventually went bankrupt. Hed still earmarked the majority of his assets for endowments and scholarships. To Histrop and Kussinger, it seemed like Waters, whod frequently described his transfers to Henry as “investments,” had expected to get his money back. Now, there wasnt even enough money left to cover Phylliss ongoing care, which amounted to roughly $36,000 per month. To their minds, there was only one option. They had to take Henry to court.
In November of 2023, *The Estate of William Robert Waters v. Henry et al.* began. Seven lawyers—three for Henry, four for the estate—filed into a University Avenue courtroom, dragging 20 bankers boxes of documents. Each side was prepared to convince Justice John Callaghan that their client was the rightful owner of Waterss $30 million.
Lorne Silver, lead counsel for the Waters estate, began his opening submissions with a bald assertion: “This is a case about financial elder abuse.” Henry and Waters, he argued, had agreed to enter a joint real estate investment business. Waters then transferred her investment money, expecting to yield a return. Henry instead spent nearly everything. Therefore, Silver contended, Henry held Waterss money—and all it had bought—on resulting trust. In other words, she owed it all back to the estate.
Arie Gaertner, Henrys lead lawyer, urged Callaghan to consider important questions: Why would Waters, a renowned scholar and astute investor, have initiated a multimillion-dollar business partnership with Henry, a Grade 11 dropout? And if they were business partners, why werent there any agreements formalizing his supposed stake in Henrys properties? Even when Waterss advisers had pushed him to take legal action against Henry, hed refused. Clearly, Gaertner argued, Waters had gifted the money to Henry and never expected to get it back. “The victim in this case,” he continued, “was Gillian Henry.”
She attended every day of the trial—silent, stony and impeccably dressed in the public gallery. She took the stand midway through the 20-day proceedings. Under questioning from her lawyers, she was composed. But, under cross-examination, her demeanour shifted. She accused Histrop and Kussinger of setting her up, suggested that the estates lawyers had doctored Waterss financial statements, and claimed, “There are so many people out to get me.”
Henry also spoke at length about the alleged sexual assault—and launched a counterclaim against Waterss estate for emotional damages resulting from it. There were inconsistencies in Henrys recollection: the details of one of the incidents differed between tellings. And she disclosed another for the first time on the stand. Silver challenged these irregularities and questioned Henrys reasons for not speaking up earlier. Was it because she didnt want to speak poorly of Waters or because the assaults never happened?
“This is why women dont come forward,” Henry retorted. “Do you know how hard it is being Black coming forward and saying a wealthy man like Dr. Waters assaulted me?” She told Silver hed never understand the pain shed endured, and he shot back, “Did the flow of money ease the pain?” After days of questioning, Henry concluded, “If you dont believe me, theres nothing I can do.”
The same could be said of the trials central question: Had Waters intended for Henry to keep the money? In court, Henrys children and sisters—who were also named in the lawsuit—claimed, unconvincingly, that they had never discussed the story behind Henrys newfound riches, even as she gave them houses, cars and piles of cash. Though several of Waterss advisers told the court that hed referred to his transfers to Henry as “investments,” there was no documentation to support that claim.
Of all the paperwork produced at trial, only two single-sided pages seemed to directly address whether the transfers were gifts or loans. The first, a letter addressed “to whom it may concern,” written and notarized by Waters in June of 2014, explicitly stated, “In all, I and my corporation have provided—in addition to salaries and gifts of appreciation—$10,645,000 in loans in the expectation of \[Henrys\] real estate and farm-based endeavours bearing fruit in due time.” But even this nominally case-cracking document proved puzzling, because two months later, Waters had notarized another letter stating that, in fact, only $1.4 million was loans, and the rest of the money represented “non-repayable imbursements.”
On the stand, Henry explained the reason for Waterss flip-flop. The first letter, she said, was created for inclusion in her divorce proceedings, so that her ex-husband wouldnt be able to claim half of her new assets. Once the divorce was finalized, she continued, Waters once again popped a bottle of champagne, handed her a copy of the second note and told her that shed only need to repay $1.4 million. At the very least, the timing of Henrys divorce lines up, and she did pay $1.4million back to Waters—using a slice of the other $28.6 million hed given her.
Henry claimed that Waters knew about—and approved of—every property she bought, every trip she took, every earring she purchased. He reviewed her Visa statements, signed off on renovation plans, and instructed his army of lawyers and accountants to stickhandle all of Henrys real estate investments. “Dr. Waters never thought of any of these properties as his,” she testified. “I couldnt spend a dime without Dr. Waters knowing what the money was for.”
This past January, after hearing both parties closing submissions, Justice Callaghan indicated that he saw no clear winner. Rendering a verdict, he said, would be neither quick nor simple. Hed need to revisit thousands of pages of evidence, sift through case law and carefully consider a textbooks worth of legal concepts, including resulting trust, undue influence, civil fraud, fiduciary duty and limitation periods.
He will also need to decide whether to apply an arcane doctrine known as unconscionable procurement, which would make the transfers voidable if Callaghan concludes that Waters didnt fully understand what he was doing and that Henry played an active role in obtaining a significant benefit for herself. Theres one hitch: unconscionable procurement has only been successfully applied in Ontario once in the past century, and no ones quite sure whether its the law anymore. Though several recent cases—most of them Great Wealth Transfer disputes—have tried to resurrect this dormant doctrine, no judge has clarified whether lawyers can use it as a legal tool. Legal scholars will be watching to see whether *Waters v. Henry* is the case that tips the scales. As Callaghan put it before the trial concluded, “Were in law school territory here.”
Whenever it arrives, Callaghans verdict will provide a modicum of closure. It will lay out which parties are entitled to what money and who needs to pay millions of dollars in backlogged property taxes, mortgage payments and legal fees. He will likely reserve enough money to pay for Phylliss care for as long as she lives, but shell probably never see the $5.5 million her husband took from her accounts. To help her, the courts have already ordered the sale of Henrys properties, save for her home and King of Hearts. Callaghan will decide whether she needs to put those on the market too.
The decision will almost certainly leave many more questions unanswered. Why did Waters give Henry so much money? Was he simply smitten? Wracked by guilt about their affair (whether or not it was consensual) and scared that his secret would get out? We may never know. Waters cant tell us, and Henry declined multiple interview requests for this story.
Instead of certainty, we are left with grand stories told by skilled lawyers. From one point of view, Henry is the villain—a manipulative romance scammer who took advantage of a kind old mans generosity and then smeared his legacy in a wicked attempt to keep his money. From another, Waters is the wrongdoer: a domineering monster who used his wealth to spoil his mistress and cover up his sexual crimes.
In their own ways, however, both Waters and Henry were vulnerable. They were both victims and villains. Whatever happened between them, they were the architects of this current mess. Whether Waters wanted Henry to keep his money or give it back, all he needed to do was put it in writing, as he did with every other transaction, phone call and passing thought. By neglecting to do so, he triggered a protracted, acrimonious and costly trial. Ultimately, both he and Henry failed the one person they were supposed to care for, the person Waters claimed he loved most in the world: Phyllis.
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*This story originally appeared in the May 2024 issue of* Toronto Life *magazine. To subscribe* *for just $39.99 a year, **[click here.](https://secure.torontolife.com/W2NASHPT)** To purchase single issues, **[click here.](https://canadianmags.ca/collections/toronto-life-single-issues)***
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- [ ] :blue_car: [[Household]]: Change to Summer tyres @ [[Rex Automobile CH]] %%done_del%% 🔁 every year 📅 2025-04-15
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#### Wishes
- Vespa
- Boat at sea (where one can sleep)
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- [x] :gift: Vogelhäuschen ✅ 2024-04-16
- [x] :gift: Michel Sardou Platte ✅ 2024-04-25
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- Zollikon (GC)
- Küsnacht (GC)
- Erlenbach (GC)
- Kilchberg (SC)
- Rüschlikon (SC)
- Horgen (SC)
- Greifensee
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[[2023-07-13|This day]], ripped hoof (front right) is healing well
> On track to heal fully by the end of the Summer season
- [ ] :racehorse: [[@Sally|Sally]], [[2023-07-13 Health check|Note]]: Check front hoofs healing 🔁 every 2 weeks 📅 2024-05-07
- [ ] :racehorse: [[@Sally|Sally]], [[2023-07-13 Health check|Note]]: Check front hoofs healing 🔁 every 2 weeks 📅 2024-05-21
- [x] :racehorse: [[@Sally|Sally]], [[2023-07-13 Health check|Note]]: Check front hoofs healing 🔁 every 2 weeks 📅 2024-05-07 ✅ 2024-05-06
- [x] :racehorse: [[@Sally|Sally]], [[2023-07-13 Health check|Note]]: Check front hoofs healing 🔁 every 2 weeks 📅 2024-04-23 ✅ 2024-04-21
- [x] :racehorse: [[@Sally|Sally]], [[2023-07-13 Health check|Note]]: Check front hoofs healing 🔁 every 2 weeks 📅 2024-04-09 ✅ 2024-04-08
- [x] :racehorse: [[@Sally|Sally]], [[2023-07-13 Health check|Note]]: Check front hoofs healing 🔁 every 2 weeks 📅 2024-03-26 ✅ 2024-03-23

@ -140,7 +140,8 @@ divWidth=100
- [x] :racehorse: [[@Sally|Sally]]: EHV-1 vaccination dose %%done_del%% 🔁 every year 📅 2024-01-31 ✅ 2024-01-31
- [ ] :racehorse: [[@Sally|Sally]]: Influenza vaccination dose %%done_del%% 🔁 every year 📅 2025-01-31
- [x] :racehorse: [[@Sally|Sally]]: Influenza vaccination dose %%done_del%% 🔁 every year 📅 2024-01-31 ✅ 2024-01-31
- [ ] :racehorse: [[@Sally|Sally]]: Pay for horseshoes (150 CHF) %%done_del%% 🔁 every month 📅 2024-05-10
- [ ] :racehorse: [[@Sally|Sally]]: Pay for horseshoes (150 CHF) %%done_del%% 🔁 every month 📅 2024-06-10
- [x] :racehorse: [[@Sally|Sally]]: Pay for horseshoes (150 CHF) %%done_del%% 🔁 every month 📅 2024-05-10 ✅ 2024-05-10
- [x] :racehorse: [[@Sally|Sally]]: Pay for horseshoes (150 CHF) %%done_del%% 🔁 every month 📅 2024-04-10 ✅ 2024-04-09
- [x] :racehorse: [[@Sally|Sally]]: Pay for horseshoes (150 CHF) %%done_del%% 🔁 every month 📅 2024-03-10 ✅ 2024-03-08
- [x] :racehorse: [[@Sally|Sally]]: Pay for horseshoes (150 CHF) %%done_del%% 🔁 every month 📅 2024-02-10 ✅ 2024-02-07

@ -109,7 +109,8 @@ Transferred into a 8L pot (from 7L)
&emsp;
- [ ] :potted_plant: [[Viorne Tin]]: Trim %%done_del%% 🔁every year 📅2024-05-15
- [ ] :potted_plant: [[Viorne Tin]]: Trim %%done_del%% 🔁 every year 📅 2025-05-15
- [x] :potted_plant: [[Viorne Tin]]: Trim %%done_del%% 🔁 every year 📅 2024-05-15 ✅ 2024-05-13
&emsp;

@ -88,7 +88,8 @@ style: number
#### Cultural
- [ ] 🎭:frame_with_picture: [[@@Paris|:test_grandes_armes_de_paris:]]: Check out [exhibitions](https://www.offi.fr/expositions-musees/programme.html) %%done_del%% 🔁 every 3 months on the last 📅 2024-04-30
- [ ] 🎭:frame_with_picture: [[@@Paris|:test_grandes_armes_de_paris:]]: Check out [exhibitions](https://www.offi.fr/expositions-musees/programme.html) %%done_del%% 🔁 every 3 months on the last 📅 2024-07-31
- [x] 🎭:frame_with_picture: [[@@Paris|:test_grandes_armes_de_paris:]]: Check out [exhibitions](https://www.offi.fr/expositions-musees/programme.html) %%done_del%% 🔁 every 3 months on the last 📅 2024-04-30 ✅ 2024-04-30
- [x] 🎭:frame_with_picture: [[@@Paris|:test_grandes_armes_de_paris:]]: Check out [exhibitions](https://www.offi.fr/expositions-musees/programme.html) %%done_del%% 🔁 every 3 months on the last 📅 2024-01-31 ✅ 2024-01-31
&emsp;

@ -141,5 +141,19 @@ dv.view("00.01 Admin/dv-views/query_place", {country: "CH", placetype: "Café",
dv.view("00.01 Admin/dv-views/query_place", {country: "CH", placetype: "Café", area: "Hottingen"})
```
&emsp;
---
&emsp;
### Kilchberg
&emsp;
```dataviewjs
dv.view("00.01 Admin/dv-views/query_place", {country: "CH", placetype: "Café", area: "Kilchberg"})
```
&emsp;
&emsp;

@ -0,0 +1,117 @@
---
Alias:
- ""
Tag:
- "🏨"
- "🌊"
Date: 2024-05-11
DocType: Place
Hierarchy: NonRoot
TimeStamp:
location: [47.30126025,8.562552092327849]
Place:
Type: ["Hotel", "Café"]
SubType: Panorama
Style: Swiss
Location: Kilchberg
Country: CH
Status: "🟧"
CollapseMetaTable: true
Phone: +41 44 552 99 99
Email: guestservices@alexlakezurich.com
Website: https://alexlakezurich.com/
---
Parent:: [[@@Zürich|Zürich]], [[@Café Zürich|Cafés in Zürich]]
&emsp;
```dataviewjs
let tempPhone = dv.current().Phone ? dv.current().Phone.replaceAll(" ", "") : '+000'
let tempMail = dv.current().Email ? dv.current().Email : ""
let tempCoorSet = dv.current().location ? dv.current().location : [0,0]
dv.el('center', '[📲](tel:' + tempPhone + ') &emsp; &emsp; [📧](mailto:' + tempMail + ') &emsp; &emsp; [🗺️](' + "https://waze.com/ul?ll=" + tempCoorSet[0] + "%2C" + tempCoorSet[1] + "&navigate=yes" + ')')
```
---
&emsp;
```button
name Save
type command
action Save current file
id Save
```
^button-HotelAlexSave
&emsp;
# Hotel Alex
&emsp;
> [!summary]+
> Note Description
&emsp;
```toc
style: number
```
&emsp;
---
&emsp;
### 📇 Contact
&emsp;
> [!address] 🗺
> Seestrasse 182
> CH-8800 Thalwil
> Schweiz
&emsp;
☎️ `= this.Phone`
📧 `= this.Email`
🌐 `= this.Website`
&emsp;
---
&emsp;
### 🗒 Notes
&emsp;
Loret ipsum
&emsp;
---
&emsp;
### 🔗 Other activity
&emsp;
```dataview
Table DocType as "Doc type" from [[Hotel Alex]]
where !contains(file.name, "@@Travel")
sort DocType asc
```
&emsp;
&emsp;

@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ dv.view("00.01 Admin/dv-views/query_recipe", {course: "Snack", category: ["Cooki
&emsp;
```dataviewjs
dv.view("00.01 Admin/dv-views/query_recipe", {course: "Snack", category: ["Dip"]})
dv.view("00.01 Admin/dv-views/query_recipe", {course: "Snack", category: ["Dip", "Bite"]})
```
[[#^Top|TOP]]

@ -0,0 +1,156 @@
---
ServingSize: 5
cssclass: recipeTable
Alias: []
Tag: ["🟥"]
Date: 2024-05-09
DocType: "Recipe"
Hierarchy: "NonRoot"
location:
CollapseMetaTable: true
Meta:
IsFavourite: False
Rating:
Recipe:
Courses: "Main dish"
Categories: "Egg"
Collections: "American"
Source: "https://everydaydishes.com/simple-food-recipes/easy-breakfast-stromboli-recipe/"
PreparationTime: 35
CookingTime: 35
OServingSize: 5
Ingredients:
- 0.25 cup flour, for rolling
- 1 sheet puff pastry, thawed per box instructions
- 6 oz ham, sliced
- 1 cup sharp cheddar cheese, shredded
- 2 cup scrambled eggs, about 5 eggs
- 1 tsp egg, beaten with water, for egg wash
---
Parent:: [[@@Recipes|Recipes]], [[@Main dishes|Main dishes]]
---
&emsp;
```button
name Edit Recipe parameters
type command
action MetaEdit: Run MetaEdit
id EditMetaData
```
^button-BreakfastStromboliEdit
```button
name Save
type command
action Save current file
id Save
```
^button-BreakfastStromboliNSave
&emsp;
# Breakfast Stromboli
&emsp;
```toc
style: number
```
&emsp;
---
&emsp;
### 🗒 Practical Informations
```dataview
list without id
"<table><tbody><tr><td><a class=heading>🍽 Courses</a></td>"
+
"<td><span style='color: var(--footnote);'>" + this.Recipe.Courses + "</span></td></tr>"
+
"<tr><td><a class=heading>🥘 Categories</a></td>"
+
"<td><span style='color: var(--footnote);'>" + this.Recipe.Categories + "</span></td></tr>"
+
"<tr><td><a class=heading>📚 Collections</a></td>"
+
"<td><span style='color: var(--footnote);'>" + this.Recipe.Collections + "</span></td></tr>"
+
"<tr><td><a class=heading>👨‍👨‍👧‍👦 Serving size</a></td>"
+
"<td><span style='color: var(--footnote);'>" + this.ServingSize + "</span></td></tr>"
+
"<tr><td><a class=heading>⏲ Cooking time</a></td>"
+
"<td><span style='color: var(--footnote);'>" + this.Recipe.CookingTime + " min</span></td></tr></tbody></table>"
FROM "03.03 Food & Wine/Breakfast Stromboli"
```
&emsp;
---
&emsp;
### 🧫 Ingredients
&emsp;
```dataviewjs
dv.view("00.01 Admin/dv-views/query_ingredient", {ingredients: dv.current().Ingredients, originalportioncount: dv.current().Recipe.OServingSize})
```
&emsp;
---
&emsp;
### 🔀 Instructions
&emsp;
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees and place the rack in the center of the oven.
&emsp;
- Unfold and roll the puff pastry sheet on a lightly floured surface into a 16" square. Pinch the seams created by folds to seal them together as you roll. Move the dough often so that you can tell when it is beginning to stick. Dust any sticky areas with a little bit of flour.
&emsp;
- Arrange the ham slices in the center of the dough leaving approximately 1" border all the way around.
&emsp;
- Add the cheese and scrambled eggs in a 3" wide line in the center of the ham running the entire width of the ham, but not all the way to the edge of the dough. The ingredients should be in a line in the center of the dough, running from your left to right.
&emsp;
- Brush the edges around the perimeter of the dough with egg wash. This will act as a glue to seal the edges of the puff pastry when you bring them together.
&emsp;
- Begin rolling the Stromboli by taking the side of dough nearest to you and rolling it over the filling and bringing it together with the opposite side. Roll the Stromboli over until the seam is on the bottom. Tuck each of the ends under to seal and brush the entire roll with egg wash. You can sprinkle the dough with a little salt and pepper if you would like.
&emsp;
- Bake for 2530 minutes until the crust is a deep golden brown color. You will notice that it has puffed up quite a bit.
&emsp;
- Remove from oven, slice and serve immediately. Enjoy!
&emsp;
&emsp;

@ -0,0 +1,161 @@
---
ServingSize: 48
cssclass: recipeTable
Alias: []
Tag: ["🟥"]
Date: 2024-05-09
DocType: "Recipe"
Hierarchy: "NonRoot"
location:
CollapseMetaTable: true
Meta:
IsFavourite: False
Rating:
Recipe:
Courses: "Snack"
Categories: "Bite"
Collections: "Fusion"
Source: "https://everydaydishes.com/simple-food-recipes/low-fat-mini-lemon-zucchini-muffins/"
PreparationTime: 25
CookingTime: 25
OServingSize: 48
Ingredients:
- 2 cups flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 0.5 tsp salt
- 2 whole eggs
- 0.66 cup sugar
- 0.25 cup applesauce
- 0.75 cup buttermilk
- 4 Tbsp lemon juice
- 1 whole zucchini, grated (about 1 cup)
- 1 whole lemon zest of lemon
- 0.25 cup powdered sugar
- 2 tsp lemon juice
- 1 zest of lemon
---
Parent:: [[@@Recipes|Recipes]], [[@Snacks|Snacks]]
---
&emsp;
```button
name Edit Recipe parameters
type command
action MetaEdit: Run MetaEdit
id EditMetaData
```
^button-LemonZucchiniMuffinsEdit
```button
name Save
type command
action Save current file
id Save
```
^button-LemonZucchiniMuffinsNSave
&emsp;
# Lemon Zucchini Muffins
&emsp;
```toc
style: number
```
&emsp;
---
&emsp;
### 🗒 Practical Informations
```dataview
list without id
"<table><tbody><tr><td><a class=heading>🍽 Courses</a></td>"
+
"<td><span style='color: var(--footnote);'>" + this.Recipe.Courses + "</span></td></tr>"
+
"<tr><td><a class=heading>🥘 Categories</a></td>"
+
"<td><span style='color: var(--footnote);'>" + this.Recipe.Categories + "</span></td></tr>"
+
"<tr><td><a class=heading>📚 Collections</a></td>"
+
"<td><span style='color: var(--footnote);'>" + this.Recipe.Collections + "</span></td></tr>"
+
"<tr><td><a class=heading>👨‍👨‍👧‍👦 Serving size</a></td>"
+
"<td><span style='color: var(--footnote);'>" + this.ServingSize + "</span></td></tr>"
+
"<tr><td><a class=heading>⏲ Cooking time</a></td>"
+
"<td><span style='color: var(--footnote);'>" + this.Recipe.CookingTime + " min</span></td></tr></tbody></table>"
FROM "03.03 Food & Wine/Lemon Zucchini Muffins"
```
&emsp;
---
&emsp;
### 🧫 Ingredients
&emsp;
```dataviewjs
dv.view("00.01 Admin/dv-views/query_ingredient", {ingredients: dv.current().Ingredients, originalportioncount: dv.current().Recipe.OServingSize})
```
&emsp;
---
&emsp;
### 🔀 Instructions
&emsp;
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
&emsp;
- In medium bowl, mix flour, baking powder and salt; set aside.
&emsp;
- Whisk eggs and sugar together; mix in applesauce, buttermilk and lemon juice then add zucchini and lemon zest; mix to just combined.
&emsp;
- Add dry ingredients into batter; do not over mix.
&emsp;
- Scoop 1 tablespoon of batter into each mini cupcake round and bake 1518 minutes or until toothpick inserted comes out clean.
&emsp;
- For an easy glaze, mix ¼ cup of powdered sugar, 2 tsp of lemon juice and the zest of 1 lemon. When tops are dry, dust with powdered sugar.
&emsp;
> [!tip]
> Don't be stuck with the leftovers! Small bites are more likely to get snapped up than food served in larger portions.
&emsp;
&emsp;

@ -211,6 +211,8 @@ dv.view("00.01 Admin/dv-views/query_vinyl", {genres: "variete"})
- [ ] Prince - When doves cry
- [x] Michael Jackson - Thriller ✅ 2024-01-26
- [x] David Bowie ✅ 2023-12-30
- [ ] David Bowie - Heroes
- [ ] David Bowie - Lets Dance
- [ ] The Rolling Stones
- [ ] The Doors
- [x] Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon ✅ 2023-11-01

@ -237,7 +237,9 @@ sudo bash /etc/addip4ban/addip4ban.sh
#### Ban List Tasks
- [ ] 🖥 [[Selfhosting]], [[Configuring UFW|Firewall]] Get IP addresses caught by Postfix %%done_del%% 🔁 every week on Saturday 📅 2024-05-04
- [ ] 🖥 [[Selfhosting]], [[Configuring UFW|Firewall]] Get IP addresses caught by Postfix %%done_del%% 🔁 every week on Saturday 📅 2024-05-18
- [x] 🖥 [[Selfhosting]], [[Configuring UFW|Firewall]] Get IP addresses caught by Postfix %%done_del%% 🔁 every week on Saturday 📅 2024-05-11 ✅ 2024-05-10
- [x] 🖥 [[Selfhosting]], [[Configuring UFW|Firewall]] Get IP addresses caught by Postfix %%done_del%% 🔁 every week on Saturday 📅 2024-05-04 ✅ 2024-05-03
- [x] 🖥 [[Selfhosting]], [[Configuring UFW|Firewall]] Get IP addresses caught by Postfix %%done_del%% 🔁 every week on Saturday 📅 2024-04-27 ✅ 2024-04-26
- [x] 🖥 [[Selfhosting]], [[Configuring UFW|Firewall]] Get IP addresses caught by Postfix %%done_del%% 🔁 every week on Saturday 📅 2024-04-20 ✅ 2024-04-19
- [x] 🖥 [[Selfhosting]], [[Configuring UFW|Firewall]] Get IP addresses caught by Postfix %%done_del%% 🔁 every week on Saturday 📅 2024-04-13 ✅ 2024-04-14
@ -305,7 +307,9 @@ sudo bash /etc/addip4ban/addip4ban.sh
- [x] 🖥 [[Selfhosting]], [[Configuring UFW|Firewall]] Get IP addresses caught by Postfix %%done_del%% 🔁 every week on Saturday 📅 2023-08-12 ✅ 2023-08-07
- [x] 🖥 [[Selfhosting]], [[Configuring UFW|Firewall]] Get IP addresses caught by Postfix %%done_del%% 🔁 every week on Saturday 📅 2023-08-05 ✅ 2023-08-05
- [x] 🖥 [[Selfhosting]], [[Configuring UFW|Firewall]] Get IP addresses caught by Postfix %%done_del%% 🔁 every week on Saturday 📅 2023-07-29 ✅ 2023-08-04
- [ ] 🖥 [[Selfhosting]], [[Configuring UFW|Firewall]]: Update the Blocked IP list %%done_del%% 🔁 every month on Saturday 📅 2024-05-04
- [ ] 🖥 [[Selfhosting]], [[Configuring UFW|Firewall]]: Update the Blocked IP list %%done_del%% 🔁 every month on Saturday 📅 2024-05-18
- [x] 🖥 [[Selfhosting]], [[Configuring UFW|Firewall]]: Update the Blocked IP list %%done_del%% 🔁 every month on Saturday 📅 2024-05-11 ✅ 2024-05-10
- [x] 🖥 [[Selfhosting]], [[Configuring UFW|Firewall]]: Update the Blocked IP list %%done_del%% 🔁 every month on Saturday 📅 2024-05-04 ✅ 2024-05-03
- [x] 🖥 [[Selfhosting]], [[Configuring UFW|Firewall]]: Update the Blocked IP list %%done_del%% 🔁 every month on Saturday 📅 2024-04-27 ✅ 2024-04-26
- [x] 🖥 [[Selfhosting]], [[Configuring UFW|Firewall]]: Update the Blocked IP list %%done_del%% 🔁 every month on Saturday 📅 2024-04-20 ✅ 2024-04-19
- [x] 🖥 [[Selfhosting]], [[Configuring UFW|Firewall]]: Update the Blocked IP list %%done_del%% 🔁 every month on Saturday 📅 2024-04-13 ✅ 2024-04-14

@ -282,7 +282,8 @@ rclone sync source:'datapath' dest:'datapath'
- [x] :cloud: [[Server Cloud]]: Backup server %%done_del%% 🔁 every 6 months on the 1st Tuesday 📅 2023-09-05 ✅ 2023-09-08
- [x] :cloud: [[Server Cloud]]: Backup server %%done_del%% 🔁 every 6 months on the 1st Tuesday 📅 2023-03-07 ✅ 2023-03-07
- [x] :cloud: [[Server Cloud]]: Backup server %%done_del%% 🔁 every 6 months on the 1st Tuesday 📅 2022-09-06 ✅ 2022-09-06
- [ ] :cloud: [[Selfhosting]], [[Server Cloud|Cloud]]: Upgrader & Health checks %%done_del%% 🔁 every 4 months 📅 2024-05-01
- [ ] :cloud: [[Selfhosting]], [[Server Cloud|Cloud]]: Upgrader & Health checks %%done_del%% 🔁 every 4 months 📅 2024-09-01
- [x] :cloud: [[Selfhosting]], [[Server Cloud|Cloud]]: Upgrader & Health checks %%done_del%% 🔁 every 4 months 📅 2024-05-01 ✅ 2024-05-01
- [x] :cloud: [[Selfhosting]], [[Server Cloud|Cloud]]: Upgrader & Health checks %%done_del%% 🔁 every 4 months 📅 2024-01-01 ✅ 2024-01-01
- [x] :cloud: [[Selfhosting]], [[Server Cloud|Cloud]]: Upgrader & Health checks %%done_del%% 🔁 every 4 months 📅 2023-09-01 ✅ 2023-09-01
- [x] :cloud: [[Selfhosting]], [[Server Cloud|Cloud]]: Upgrader & Health checks %%done_del%% 🔁 every 4 months 📅 2023-05-01 ✅ 2023-05-01

@ -1471,4 +1471,140 @@ alias i=income
2024/04/29 Coop
expenses:Food:CHF CHF10.15
liability:CreditCard:CHF
2024/04/30 Coffee
expenses:Food:CHF CHF5.90
liability:CreditCard:CHF
2024/04/30 Migros
expenses:Food:CHF CHF3.50
liability:CreditCard:CHF
2024/04/30 Coffee
expenses:Food:CHF CHF6.00
liability:CreditCard:CHF
2024/04/30 Coop
expenses:Food:CHF CHF1.75
liability:CreditCard:CHF
2024/04/30 Dinner
expenses:Social:CHF CHF80.00
liability:CreditCard:CHF
2024/05/02 Migros
expenses:Food:CHF CHF27.65
liability:CreditCard:CHF
2024/05/03 Coffee
expenses:Food:CHF CHF5.90
liability:CreditCard:CHF
2024/05/03 Coop
expenses:Food:CHF CHF7.10
liability:CreditCard:CHF
2024/05/04 Bohemia
expenses:Food:CHF CHF80.00
liability:CreditCard:CHF
2024/05/04 Coop
expenses:Food:CHF CHF6.40
liability:CreditCard:CHF
2024/05/06 Tennis court
expenses:Sport:CHF CHF25.00
liability:CreditCard:CHF
2024/05/06 Coop
expenses:Horse:CHF CHF2.35
liability:CreditCard:CHF
2024/05/06 Scherköpfe
expenses:Horse:CHF CHF110.00
liability:CreditCard:CHF
2024/05/06 Coffee
expenses:Food:CHF CHF6.00
liability:CreditCard:CHF
2024/05/06 Banquito
expenses:Horse:CHF CHF25.85
liability:CreditCard:CHF
2024/05/06 Coop
expenses:Food:CHF CHF4.95
liability:CreditCard:CHF
2024/05/07 Coffee
expenses:Food:CHF CHF6.00
liability:CreditCard:CHF
2024/05/07 Migros
expenses:Food:CHF CHF5.20
liability:CreditCard:CHF
2024/05/07 Coffee
expenses:Food:CHF CHF5.90
liability:CreditCard:CHF
2024/05/07 Socks
expenses:Clothes:CHF CHF85.00
liability:CreditCard:CHF
2024/05/07 Coop
expenses:Food:CHF CHF11.65
liability:CreditCard:CHF
2024/05/07 Felix Bühler
expenses:Horse:CHF CHF35.90
liability:CreditCard:CHF
2024/05/07 Schwamme
expenses:Horse:CHF CHF22.00
liability:CreditCard:CHF
2024/05/08 Dinner
expenses:Food:CHF CHF80.00
liability:CreditCard:CHF
2024/05/10 Irons Sally
expenses:Horse:CHF CHF150.00
liability:CreditCard:CHF
2024/05/10 Coop
expenses:Food:CHF CHF1.45
liability:CreditCard:CHF
2024/05/10 Migros
expenses:Food:CHF CHF10.70
liability:CreditCard:CHF
2024/05/11 Migros
expenses:Food:CHF CHF13.75
liability:CreditCard:CHF
2024/05/11 Dinner
expenses:Food:CHF CHF42.50
liability:CreditCard:CHF
2024/05/12 Breakfast
expenses:Food:CHF CHF18.00
liability:CreditCard:CHF
2024/05/13 Migros
expenses:Food:CHF CHF12.95
liability:CreditCard:CHF
2024/05/14 Breakfast
expenses:Food:CHF CHF9.10
liability:CreditCard:CHF
2024/05/14 Coop
expenses:Food:CHF CHF0.95
liability:CreditCard:CHF
2024/05/14 Train food
expenses:Food:CHF CHF9.10
liability:CreditCard:CHF

@ -70,7 +70,8 @@ All tasks and to-dos Crypto-related.
&emsp;
%%- [ ] 💰[[Crypto Tasks#internet alerts|monitor Crypto news and publications]] %%done_del%% 🔁 every week on Friday 📅 2022-12-16%%
- [ ] :ballot_box_with_ballot: [[Crypto Tasks]]: Vote for [[EOS]] block producers %%done_del%% 🔁 every month on the 1st Tuesday 📅 2024-05-07
- [ ] :ballot_box_with_ballot: [[Crypto Tasks]]: Vote for [[EOS]] block producers %%done_del%% 🔁 every month on the 1st Tuesday 📅 2024-06-04
- [x] :ballot_box_with_ballot: [[Crypto Tasks]]: Vote for [[EOS]] block producers %%done_del%% 🔁 every month on the 1st Tuesday 📅 2024-05-07 ✅ 2024-05-06
- [x] :ballot_box_with_ballot: [[Crypto Tasks]]: Vote for [[EOS]] block producers %%done_del%% 🔁 every month on the 1st Tuesday 📅 2024-04-02 ✅ 2024-04-02
- [x] :ballot_box_with_ballot: [[Crypto Tasks]]: Vote for [[EOS]] block producers %%done_del%% 🔁 every month on the 1st Tuesday 📅 2024-03-05 ✅ 2024-03-05
- [x] :ballot_box_with_ballot: [[Crypto Tasks]]: Vote for [[EOS]] block producers %%done_del%% 🔁 every month on the 1st Tuesday 📅 2024-02-06 ✅ 2024-02-06
@ -87,7 +88,8 @@ All tasks and to-dos Crypto-related.
- [x] :ballot_box: [[Crypto Tasks]]: Vote for [[EOS]] block producers %%done_del%% 🔁 every month on the 1st Tuesday 📅 2023-03-07 ✅ 2023-03-07
- [x] :ballot_box: [[Crypto Tasks]]: Vote for [[EOS]] block producers %%done_del%% 🔁 every month on the 1st Tuesday 📅 2023-02-07 ✅ 2023-02-06
- [x] :ballot_box: [[Crypto Tasks]]: Vote for [[EOS]] block producers %%done_del%% 🔁 every month on the 1st Tuesday 📅 2023-01-03 ✅ 2023-01-03
- [ ] :chart: Check [[Nimbus]] earnings %%done_del%% 🔁 every month on the 2nd Monday 📅 2024-05-13
- [ ] :chart: Check [[Nimbus]] earnings %%done_del%% 🔁 every month on the 2nd Monday 📅 2024-06-10
- [x] :chart: Check [[Nimbus]] earnings %%done_del%% 🔁 every month on the 2nd Monday 📅 2024-05-13 ✅ 2024-05-11
- [x] :chart: Check [[Nimbus]] earnings %%done_del%% 🔁 every month on the 2nd Monday 📅 2024-04-08 ✅ 2024-04-08
- [x] :chart: Check [[Nimbus]] earnings %%done_del%% 🔁 every month on the 2nd Monday 📅 2024-03-11 ✅ 2024-03-11
- [x] :chart: Check [[Nimbus]] earnings %%done_del%% 🔁 every month on the 2nd Monday 📅 2024-02-12 ✅ 2024-02-12

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