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2020: Silvana Bosi, attrice e regista teatrale italiana. Esordì nel mondo dello spettacolo intorno alla seconda metà degli anni ottanta in qualità di attrice teatrale. Fu talvolta regista degli stessi spettacoli da lei interpretati. Sul piccolo e grande schermo ebbe modo di collaborare con diversi registi, spesso in qualità di caratterista. (n. 1934) 2019: Piero Tosi, costumista e docente…

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Raquel Torres: Mexaggerated

Latina love goddess Raquel Torres(Paula Maria Osterman, 1908-1987) poured unsuspected amounts of showmanship into her screen presence. While indeed born in Hermosillo, Mexico to a Mexican mother, her father was a German immigrant and she was raised in the U.S. Those familiar with the actress know that she normally spoke in a thick accent in films. The delightful reality is that she didn’t speak…

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Clinton Sex Scandal Whistleblower Linda Tripp Dies at Age 70: Reports

Linda Tripp, the former U.S. civil servant whose secretly taped telephone conversations with a former White House intern documented the sex scandal that led to then-President Bill Clinton’s 1998 impeachment, died on Wednesday at age 70.

Her death was confirmed to the Washington Post by her son, Ryan Tripp, and to the New York Post by her son-in-law, Thomas Foley, who said Tripp’s unspecified illness was unrelated to the coronavirus.

The Daily Mail in Britain cited a longtime close friend, Diane Spreadbury, as saying Tripp succumbed to a brief battle with pancreatic cancer.

Tripp became forever linked with the sex scandal that nearly brought down Clinton’s presidency by way of her whistleblower role in exposing the extramarital affair he had with Tripp’s acquaintance, Monica Lewinsky, a former White House intern.

Tripp was a secretary in the White House counsel’s office in the early years of Clinton’s presidency before she was transferred to the Pentagon’s public affairs office and befriended Lewinsky, 24 years her junior.

As the two became close and Lewinsky revealed her past sexual relationship with Clinton, Tripp began clandestinely recording their private telephone conversations in which Lewinsky documented her affair with the president in graphic detail.

Tripp ultimately turned over hours of those tapes to Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr, who was investigating potential wrongdoing by Clinton, the former Arkansas governor, stemming from the failed Whitewater real estate venture in the Ozarks. Tripp was granted immunity from illegal wiretapping charges in exchange for the recordings.

On the basis of the tapes, Starr obtained permission to expand his probe into the Clinton-Lewinsky affair.

Tripp also brought to light one of the most notorious pieces of evidence in the scandal, the semen-stained blue dress that Lewinsky had told Tripp she had worn during a sexual encounter in the White House with Clinton. Tripp recounted that Lewinsky had once shown her the dress, and that Tripp persuaded the former intern to keep the garment without having it dry-cleaned.

Starr’s office seized the dress, and DNA analysis of it forced Clinton to recant his infamous, finger-wagging public denial of his affair with Lewinsky – “I did not have sexual relations with that woman.”

The revelations also led the Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives to impeach Clinton for perjury and obstruction of justice over statements he made denying the affair under oath as part of a sexual harassment lawsuit brought against him by former Arkansas state employee Paula Jones. Clinton was acquitted in the Senate.

In the end, Tripp was vilified by Clinton’s supporters as having betrayed a friend for partisan political motives. But she insisted she had done the right thing in exposing the president’s misconduct.

Tripp was fired from her Pentagon job on Clinton’s final day in office in January 2001, and later settled with her husband in Middleburg, Virginia, outside Washington.

(Reporting by Steve Gorman in Los Angeles and Mark Hosenball in Washington; Editing by Cynthia Osterman)

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Prosecutors to wrap up Manafort case, may soon go to jury

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Prosecutors to wrap up Manafort case, may soon go to jury

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (Reuters) – U.S. prosecutors on Monday plan to wrap up their tax and bank fraud case against former Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort, making it likely the case will go to the jury by midweek if the defense decides not to call any witnesses.

FILE PHOTO: Former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort arrives for arraignment on a third superseding indictment against him by Special Counsel Robert Mueller on charges of witness tampering, at U.S. District Court in Washington, U.S., June 15, 2018. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File Photo

The trial is in its 10th day in Alexandria, Virginia, federal court and is not scheduled to resume until Monday afternoon. The case arose from U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe of Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.

Before completing their case, prosecutors will call James Brennan, an executive at the Federal Savings Bank. On Friday, a former salesman at Federal testified that the bank’s chief executive personally approved $16 million in loans to Manafort while seeking Manafort’s help getting a post in President Donald Trump’s cabinet.

The prosecution also wants to recall Paula Liss, an agent with the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network. The defense is seeking to block further questioning of her, and the judge has not yet ruled. Liss testified last week that Manafort did not disclose his foreign bank accounts.

Manafort’s lawyers will then face a choice: call their own witnesses or hope the prosecution’s case is not strong enough to outweigh defense attacks on the credibility of Rick Gates and the testimony of more than two dozen other witnesses.

Gates testified last week that Manafort, his former boss, directed him to help commit the tax and bank frauds, but the defense portrayed him as living a “secret life” of infidelity and embezzlement.

Prosecutors contend Manafort hid a significant portion of the approximately $60 million he earned as a consultant for pro-Russian politicians in Ukraine, then lied to borrow millions more in a bid to maintain an extravagant lifestyle when the Ukraine work dried up.

Shanlon Wu, who represented Gates before he pleaded guilty in February and started cooperating with Mueller’s probe, said he expected the defense to rest its case and move on to closing arguments.

While the prosecution has built a solid case, Manafort’s lawyers appeared to have raised some doubts about the testimony of Gates and other witnesses, Wu said.

“The big question is, did the government do enough to show willfulness,” said Wu, who is no longer involved in the case and said he was speaking from knowledge of the publicly available evidence.

If the defense decides not to call any witnesses, the court may on Monday hold a conference with the lawyers to decide what instructions should be given to the jury before they begin deliberations, Judge T.S. Ellis said on Friday.

Closing arguments may take place on Tuesday. Ellis ordered each side to limit its summation to two hours.

It was unclear if Ellis will make public the reason behind an unexpected recess on Friday that lasted into the midafternoon and included a lengthy discussion with the lawyers and judge at the bench, the contents of which remain under seal.

Some legal experts have speculated that it may have been triggered by a problem with the jury after Ellis reminded jurors in unusual detail and multiple times about the defendant’s presumed innocence, the need to “keep an open mind” about the trial and not to talk to anyone about the case.

“My sense is that it probably has to do with juror misconduct,” said Joshua Dressler, a law professor at Ohio State. But it was not likely severe enough to prompt the judge to declare a mistrial, he said, noting Ellis resumed witness testimony on Friday afternoon.

Reporting by Nathan Layne in Alexandria, Virginia and Karen Freifeld in New York; Editing by Cynthia Osterman

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Embraer counts on Brazil

SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Planemaker Embraer SA (EMBR3.SA) is counting on the votes of public-sector Brazilian shareholders to outweigh any potential investor objections to its tie-up with Boeing SA (BA.N), two people with knowledge of the matter said.

FILE PHOTO: The logo of Brazilian aviation company Embraer is seen on a factory in Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil, February 7, 2018. REUTERS/Paulo Whitaker/File photo

Doubts about the valuation of Embraer’s commercial jet unit in a proposed $4.75 billion joint venture sent Embraer shares tumbling nearly 15 percent in a single day last week, although shares are still up 32 percent since the deal was first reported.

Some small investors have complained the deal effectively gives Boeing control of Embraer’s main business without having to pay the 50 percent premium called for in a poison pill in the planemaker’s bylaws. Top foreign shareholders have so far kept mum on the issue.

Even if those offshore investors do object, however, one of Embraer’s little-known corporate bylaws will effectively give a Brazilian-held share about six times the weight of a foreigner’s at a shareholder assembly, according to the sources who requested anonymity to discuss the deal publicly.

The support of public-sector pension fund Previ and state development bank BNDES, which together hold about 10 percent of Embraer shares may thus prove decisive, the sources added, underlining the sway of the Brazilian government which also has a “golden share” in the formerly state-controlled company.

Embraer, Boeing and Previ declined to comment on the matter.

BNDES did not reply to questions.

LITTLE-KNOWN BYLAW

Embraer’s corporate statutes grant Brazilians at least 60 percent of voting rights at shareholder meetings, even though domestic shareholders held just 19 percent of Embraer’s outstanding shares as of March, according to the company — and about half of those belong to Previ and BNDES.

BNDES, which holds the shares through investment arm BNDES Participações SA, was part of a government working group discussing the tie-up along with representatives of the finance and defense ministries. BNDES head Dyogo Oliveira on Tuesday said it was “certainly a good deal.”

Previ, which manages pensions for employees of state-controlled lender Banco do Brasil SA (BBAS3.SA), has not made its stance on the deal public.

Embraer’s top shareholders, Brandes Investment Partners LP, BlackRock Inc (BLK.N) and Mondrian Investment Partners LP may also have their say limited by a bylaw restricting the voting rights of investors with more than 5 percent of shares — the case for all three as recently as March.

All three fund managers declined to comment.

SHAREHOLDER RESISTANCE

While Embraer shares are still up 32 percent since Boeing disclosed its interest, some analysts have suggested investors were shortchanged by the U.S. jetmaker’s final offer.

The lack of a full takeover offer for Embraer, including its defense and business jet operations, was a result of the Brazilian government’s concern about the sovereignty of military programs, backed up by its golden share.

“We see strong odds of Embraer shareholders demanding a higher price for the stake in the commercial segment, given this unit’s strategic value and low financial impact on Boeing,” BTG Pactual analyst Renato Mimica wrote in a Thursday note.

A local fund manager holding less than 1 percent of Embraer shares, who asked not to be named to preserve relations with management, said the valuation was low and asked why investors other than BNDES had not been previously consulted on the deal.

Facing an uphill battle at the shareholder assembly, Renato Chaves, a former director at pension fund Previ, filed a formal complaint to Brazilian securities regulator CVM last week.

Chaves argued the deal was designed to avoid Embraer’s poison pill ensuring an offer to all shareholders with a 50 percent premium over market prices if any investor buys 35 percent or more of the company.

“What I see is Embraer selling 85 percent of its revenue to Boeing, and the poison pill should apply,” said Chaves. “What they are doing is a disguised acquisition designed to avoid the poison pill.”

CVM does not comment on investor complaints beyond its public decisions.

Reporting by Tatiana Bautzer and Carolina Mandl; Additional reporting by Paula Laier and Flavia Bohone; Editing by Brad Haynes, Christian Plumb and Cynthia Osterman

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