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Anonymous ID: 28c30c Jan. 5, 2021, 6:10 p.m. No.12335577   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5703 >>6104

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Pa. Sen. Jim Brewster Not Sworn In As State Senate Dissolves Into Chaos Over Contested Election

 

HARRISBURG, Pa. (KDKA) — A local Democratic state senator, certified by the state as receiving the most votes, was denied his seat in the Pennsylvania Senate in a raucous swearing-in day at the state Capital in Harrisburg.

 

Senate Republicans, who hold the majority, refused to let Pa. Sen. Jim Brewster of McKeesport take the oath of office. When Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, a Democrat, came to Brewster’s defense, the Republicans removed him as presiding officer.

 

Pounding the gavel, Fetterman declared on Tuesday afternoon, “The Senate will now come to order.”

 

The day began with Fetterman as president of the Senate, but when Republican senators tried to deny Democrat Brewster, certified with 69 more votes than his Republican challenger, the right to take the oath of office, Fetterman intervened.

 

“The chair does not find that in order,” the Lt. Governor declared.

 

So then Republicans voted to remove Fetterman from the chair.

 

“The ayes are 14 and the nays are 11,” declared President Pro Tempore Jake Corman, a Republican, “and the Lieutenant Governor has been removed from the Senate for the day.”

 

https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2021/01/05/pennsylvania-senate-swearing-in-ceremony-chaos-jim-brewster-nicole-ziccarelli/

Anonymous ID: 28c30c Jan. 5, 2021, 6:15 p.m. No.12335689   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5703 >>6104

Columbia University VP Accused of Sex Acts With Child Under 13 at His NJ Home

 

The vice president for Manhattanville Development at Columbia University has been arrested on aggravated sex assault and other charges for allegedly engaging in sex acts with a child younger than 13 in New Jersey, officials say.

 

Prosecutors said Tuesday that Marcelo Velez, identified on Columbia's website as its "point person on all aspects of development, design and construction" for the university's 6.8 million-square-foot campus expansion in West Harlem was taken into custody at his New Jersey home Monday after an investigation.

 

According to that investigation, Woodcliff Lake Police first learned of allegations the married 55-year-old Velez had engaged in sex acts with the child in Woodcliff Lake Sunday. The Bergen County prosecutor's office was called in to assist with that investigation and now alleges the abuse took place at Velez's home.

 

Details on his relationship to the child weren't immediately clear, nor was information on an attorney for him immediately available. Velez was remanded to the Bergen County Jail pending his first appearance on charges including sexual assault by sexual contact and child endangerment in addition to the top charge.

 

In a statement to News 4 New York, a Columbia University spokesperson said: "We have placed Mr. Velez on administrative leave and will cooperate fully with law enforcement officials investigating this matter.”

 

According to the college's website, Velez has been with the university since 1995 and "held a number of positions with increasing responsibilities." He has been with Columbia's Manhattanville Development Group since 2007, first as associate vice president for project management and construction. Velez took over the vice president role in 2016 and has "managed, supervised or otherwise presided over $1 billion worth of capital construction" over the years, his bio says.

 

A licensed professional engineer in New York state, Velez has a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from Rutgers University and a business degree from Columbia, where he currently serves on the adviser board for the ACE Mentorship Program, Columbia University’s School of Continuing Education’s new master’s degree program in construction administration, and as vice chair of the Greater New York Construction User Council, according to the university website.

 

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/columbia-university-vp-accused-of-sex-acts-with-child-under-13-at-his-nj-home/2813200/