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"We have over 100 active subdivisions all over Texas and 65 to 70 subdivisions in Dallas-Fort Worth," Ipour said in May. "We build north all the way to the town of Gunter in Grayson County and south all the way to Waxahachie."
He and his brother, Aaron, founded Megatel nearly a decade ago after getting their start buying and renovating foreclosed properties. The company plans to expand to Colorado and Florida.
Safety records related to the company’s work were not available Tuesday.
OSHA spokesman Juan Rodriguez said the agency investigation into Monday’s incident is underway.
Typically OSHA will examine a job site to ensure it was maintained safely and whether contractors and subcontractors could have done anything to avoid problems.
Correction 9:05 a.m. Oct. 10: An earlier versioin of this article referred to Sylvan and Singleton avenues, rather than Sylvan Avenue and Singleton Boulevard.
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Marcy Singer (left) and Alissa Schmelkin met at sleepaway camp when they were 9. Nearly 25 years later the best friends are opening the first and only dedicated space for the popular camp sport gaga.
MANHATTAN — With gaga all the rage for the summer camp set — the sport, not the pop sensation — two Upper East Side moms are opening the first and only space in Manhattan dedicated solely to the Israeli dodgeball-like game.
Alissa Schmelkin and Marcy Singer, best friends who both have two sons, didn't want them playing it in their apartment living rooms. So, on Saturday, they're opening the 3,000-square-foot Gaga Center at 230 E. 93rd St.
The game is played in an octagonal pit that involves dodging, striking, running and jumping while trying to touch opponents with a ball below the knees.
"They were playing in the house," said Singer, 36.
"Our lamps and everything else were in danger. We were like, this is ridiculous. This has to end. The ball kind of flies all over the place."
She and Schmelkin — Long Island-natives who met at a Pennsylvania sleep-away camp when they were nine years old — were in Central Park one day as their boys, who range in age from 4 to 8, were attempting to play a game of gaga without the octagonal pit.
"We were talking about what classes they were going to take," Singer recounted when a light bulb went off.
"It's like bowling without a bowling alley," Singer said. "You can't do it."
Singer, who was in the business world and then got a Master's in education, and Schmelkin, who is a former journalist, spent a year trying to find the right space that was bright and airy, with high ceilings as opposed to the dingy basements many after school classes take place in.
"We wanted a place with daylight and high ceilings," Singer said. "We wanted to create a play with music, an upbeat space where kids can burn energy."
The Gaga Center will have an inaugural trial week of free classes before kicking off a 12-class spring session for boys and girls, ages 4 and up, on Mar. 5 that will cost $620. They will also host birthday parties for kids and adults.
Classes are already filling up and birthday parties have already been booked, Singer said.
"It's a really great sport for everyone," Singer said of the game she considers less aggressive than dodgeball and more high energy.
"You don't need to be an amazing athlete to play. You don't have to be into a traditional sport to run around, get exercise and have fun."
"We found a need in New York City. It's very rare to find something today that doesn't already exist for kids."
The Israeli game, which has been around for years, preceded the meteoric rise of Lady Gaga. But the famed singer might make an appearance at the center.
"We'll be sure to play some Gaga in the space when we open," Singer said.
Robert Mueller is widely believed to be close to turning over a report of his Russia investigation to the Justice Department.
The report will be the culmination of perhaps the most closely watched investigation in U.S. history.
Will the report be made public? When will it drop? Here is a primer on what happens next.
With the Mueller report expected to drop any day, here is a guide to what the special counsel investigated and how this heavily anticipated document will be released.
Spoiler alert: A lot of questions about the report’s release and its contents have no clear answer. That’s largely a function of the lack of leaks from the special counsel’s office and the stoic approach Mueller has taken during the 22-month investigation.
When will the report be finished?
All signs point to Mueller nearing the very end of the investigation.
Several top prosecutors working on the investigation are leaving the special counsel’s office, including Andrew Weissmann and Zainab Ahmad. Weissmann was the lead prosecutor on Mueller’s case against Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign chairman who was sentenced to prison on charges related to his work for the Ukr...
Reporters have also seen Mueller team members removing boxes of files from their offices in Washington, D.C.
The grand jury Mueller used in the investigation has also reportedly not heard from witnesses since Jan. 24, the same day Trump confidant Roger Stone was indicted.
What happens when Mueller finishes the report?
Once Mueller finalizes his report, he is expected to notify Attorney General William Barr. What happens then is up in the air.
Barr could announce that he has received the report, or he could provide portions of it directly to leaders on the House and Senate Judiciary Committees.
Congressional sources familiar with those committees’ business say they are as in the dark as anyone else about how the process will unfold. Barr could announce he has the Mueller document before or after he informs Congress. He could avoid a public announcement and inform Congress that Mueller concluded the investigat...
As with most questions about Mueller’s findings, it is unclear what he will actually say in the document provided to Barr.
Barr testified at his confirmation hearing that under the current statute governing special counsels, Mueller will be required to provide a summary of his findings to the Justice Department along with a rationale for any decisions to decline specific prosecutions.
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who oversaw the investigation since its inception May 17, 2017, recently laid out what information Barr is legally required to share with Congress.
“If the special counsel proposes to take an action and is overruled by the attorney general … we’re required to report that to the Congress,” he said at an event Feb. 25.
The report might also be hindered by legal restrictions against indicting sitting presidents. But Mueller could, if he sees fit, suggest areas where Trump could face impeachment proceedings.
What will the public see?
Barr could release as much of the report as he wants, but he is first expected to write a summary of Mueller’s findings.
Whatever documents are eventually made public are likely to contain redactions for classified information. It is also unlikely that the report will contain any information gleaned from grand jury testimony.
Legal observers cautioned the public against expecting Mueller to lay out all of the details of his investigation. But they also said it is unlikely Mueller and Barr can completely avoid explaining whether or not Trump colluded with Russia or obstructed justice.
Congressional Democrats vowed to subpoena the report if Barr withholds it. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff also pledged to subpoena Mueller if details of the report are withheld from Congress.
The answer to that question likely hinges on what the report says.
Trump has given mixed signals about how he will handle Mueller’s findings. He said Wednesday that the public should see the document, but he added that he would like to review it beforehand.
“Let it come out. Let people see it,” he said, before adding that the final decision is up to Barr.
Mueller was appointed special counsel May 17, 2017, eight days after President Donald Trump fired James Comey as FBI director. A former FBI director himself, Mueller inherited “Crossfire Hurricane,” the FBI’s code name for the counterintelligence investigation into Trump campaign associates’ possible ties to Russia.
FBI counterintelligence official Peter Strzok opened Crossfire Hurricane on July 31, 2016. The probe targeted Trump aides George Papadopoulos, Carter Page, Manafort and Michael Flynn.
After Comey’s firing, FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe expanded the probe to include Trump himself. McCabe ordered an investigation into whether Trump himself was a Russian agent as well as whether he obstructed justice by firing Comey.
Mueller’s investigation has expanded in numerous directions since its beginning.
He indicted or secured guilty pleas from 34 individuals, including six Trump associates. But so far, none of the indictments have involved coordination between Trump associates and Russians.
Mueller indicted 25 Russian operatives accused of hacking Democrats’ emails or planting disinformation on social media networks.
Four Trump associates — George Papadopoulos, Michael Flynn, Rick Gates and Michael Cohen — pleaded guilty in the special counsel’s investigation.
Manafort was sentenced to seven-and-a-half years in prison on a variety of charges related to his consulting work in Ukraine.
Mueller also secured guilty pleas from Alex van der Zwaan and Richard Pinedo, both of whom appear to have no direct links to Trump. Konstantin Kilimnik, a Manafort business partner suspected of having links to Russian intelligence, was also indicted on witness tampering charges.
Has Mueller found any evidence of collusion?
Most of what Mueller has found in his investigation remains secret, but some clues have come out through the numerous indictments and guilty pleas secured during the probe.
And so far, none of those cases revealed evidence that members of the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated with Russians to influence the outcome of the 2016 election.
The source of the collusion conspiracy theory — the Steele dossier — has come under intense scrutiny since it was published in January 2017.
The dossier, which was funded by the Clinton campaign and Russian government, accused Page, Cohen and Manafort of conspiring with Kremlin officials to influence the election. The dossier also alleged that the Russian government was blackmailing Trump with video of him with prostitutes in Moscow in 2013.
Circumstantial evidence has cut against the Steele dossier. Page has appeared before Mueller’s grand jury, but has not been charged with any crimes. Prosecutors have never accused Manafort of conspiring with Russia, even though he has already been sentenced in two cases brought by Mueller’s team.
Cohen, who is a cooperating witness for Mueller, undercut the dossier’s most specific allegation about collusion during congressional testimony in February.
The former Trump fixer testified under oath Feb. 27 that he has never visited Prague. The dossier claims Cohen visited there in August 2016 to meet with Kremlin officials to discuss paying off Russian hackers.
Are more indictments on the way?
This is another question that remains to be seen. Trump critics have held out hope that Mueller will issue a barrage of indictments against Trump family members like Donald Trump Jr. and Jared Kushner just as he submits his report to the Justice Department.
Mueller has investigated a variety of areas that have so far not resulted in indictments. Mueller’s prosecutors also offered a plea deal to Jerome Corsi, a conspiracy theorist who was in close contact with Stone during the 2016 campaign. Corsi has said Mueller believes he might have had contact during the campaign with...
Mueller’s grand jury heard testimony from Corsi’s stepson on the same day the indictment against Stone was handed down.
White House officials have decided that President Obama will not use the word "genocide" to describe the killings of more than 1 million Armenians at the hands of Ottoman Turks when he commemorates the deaths Friday, the 100th anniversary of the massacres.
The decision, revealed Tuesday in a meeting with Armenian American groups, backs down from a previous Obama pledge.
"As president I will recognize the Armenian Genocide," Obama said while running for president in 2008.
His decision not to do so now sparked anger from activists.
"The president's surrender represents a national disgrace," said Aram S. Hamparian, executive director of the Washington-based Armenian National Committee of America. "It is a betrayal of the truth, and it is a betrayal of trust."
White House officials defended the decision as necessary to preserve the chance of cooperation with Turkey, a NATO ally, on Middle Eastern conflicts.
The Turkish Embassy, which has spent millions lobbying Congress on the issue, did not respond to a request for comment. the Turkish government has said that the mass killings do not meet the legal definition of genocide and that it would be a mistake for the U.S. to use the term. Some members of Congress have also warn...
California has the country's largest population of people of Armenian descent, with more than 200,000 living in Los Angeles County, according to U.S. Census data.
Rep. Adam B. Schiff (D-Burbank), who has led efforts in Congress to recognize the genocide, said he was "deeply disappointed" by the decision.
"How long must the victims and their families wait before our nation has the courage to confront Turkey with the truth about the murderous past of the Ottoman Empire? If not this president, who spoke so eloquently and passionately about recognition in the past, whom? If not after 100 years, when?" he said in a statemen...
After the meeting with Armenian American groups, White House officials released a statement that did not use the word "genocide." The statement from National Security Council spokeswoman Bernadette Meehan said the U.S. would use the anniversary of the onset of the massacres to "urge a full, frank and just acknowledgmen...
A senior administration official, speaking on condition of anonymity to comment on a diplomatically delicate issue, said the White House expects Obama to mark "the historical significance" of the Meds Yeghern, as the massacres are known in Armenian.
"We know and respect that there are some who are hoping to hear different language this year. We understand their perspective," the official said.
But, the official added, "the approach we have taken in previous years remains the right one, both for acknowledging the past, and for our ability to work with regional partners to save lives in the present," a reference to U.S. hope for cooperation from Turkey, particularly in the civil war in Syria.
White House national security advisor Susan Rice met Tuesday afternoon with Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu and urged him "to take concrete steps to improve relations with Armenia and to facilitate an open and frank dialogue in Turkey about the atrocities of 1915," the White House said in a statement.
Hamparian said he and other Armenian American leaders learned the news at their White House meeting, which was attended by Denis McDonough, Obama's chief of staff, and Ben Rhodes, deputy national security advisor.
During the meeting, which lasted just short of an hour, Hamparian said, the group was told that the U.S. would send a delegation to Armenia this week, led by Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew.
The delegation will also include Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Hillsborough), who said in a statement, "I intend to call it what it was — I will call it a genocide everywhere I go."
An estimated 1.5 million Armenians were killed starting in 1915 amid the chaotic collapse of the Ottoman Empire.