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Thousands of mourners, including members of dozens of police agencies, attended Officer Mioso-tis Familia’s funeral Tuesday in the Bronx. Officer Familia, 48, was shot last week in a police truck.One mourner, for whom the officer handled a case, said she had given her strength. Page A15.

‘She Was My Heroine’

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia —Across Western Europe and theUnited States, immigrants frompoorer countries, whetherplumbers from Poland orfarmhands from Mexico, have be-come a lightning rod for economicanxieties over cheap labor.

The Russian city of Vladivostokon the Pacific Ocean, however, haseagerly embraced a new icon ofborder-crushing globalization:the North Korean painter.

Unlike migrant workers inmuch of the West, destitutedecorators from North Korea areso welcome that they have helpedmake Russia at least the equal ofChina — Pyongyang’s mainbacker — as the world’s biggestuser of labor from the impover-ished yet nuclear-armed country.

“They are fast, cheap and veryreliable, much better than Rus-sian workers,” Yulia Kravchenko,a 32-year-old Vladivostok home-maker, said of the painters. “Theydo nothing but work from morn-ing until late at night.”

The work habits that delightVladivostok homeowners are alsogenerating sorely needed cash for

Sent Abroad,North KoreansToil as ‘Slaves’

By ANDREW HIGGINS

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WASHINGTON — PresidentTrump entered office pledging tocut red tape, and within weeks, heordered his administration to as-semble teams to aggressivelyscale back government regula-tions.

But the effort — a signaturetheme in Mr. Trump’s populistcampaign for the White House —is being conducted in large partout of public view and often by po-litical appointees with deep indus-try ties and potential conflicts.

Most government agencieshave declined to disclose informa-tion about their deregulationteams. But The New York Timesand ProPublica identified 71appointees, including 28 with po-tential conflicts, through inter-views, public records and docu-ments obtained under the Free-dom of Information Act.

Some appointees are reviewingrules their previous employerssought to weaken or kill, and atleast two may be positioned toprofit if certain regulations are un-done.

The appointees include lawyerswho have represented businessesin cases against government reg-ulators, staff members of politicaldark money groups, employees ofindustry-funded organizationsopposed to environmental rulesand at least three people whowere registered to lobby the agen-cies they now work for.

At the Education Departmentalone, two members of the deregu-lation team were most recentlyemployed by pro-charter advoca-cy groups or operators, and oneappointee was an executive han-

The Deep Industry ConnectionsOf Trump’s Deregulation Teams

By DANIELLE IVORYand ROBERT FATURECHI

TRUMP RULES

The Regulation Slashers

Samantha Dravis, of the E.P.A.GAGE SKIDMORE

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WASHINGTON — If Presi-dent Trump emerged from hismeeting with President VladimirV. Putin of Russia last weekhoping he had begun to “moveforward” from the controversyover the Kremlin’s election med-dling, as advisers put it, his flighthome the next day made clearjust how overly optimistic thatwas.

As Air Force One jetted backfrom Europe on Saturday, a smallcadre of Mr. Trump’s advisershuddled in a cabin helping tocraft a statement for the presi-dent’s eldest son, Donald TrumpJr., to give to The New YorkTimes explaining why he metlast summer with a lawyer con-nected to the Russian govern-ment. Participants on the planeand back in the United Statesdebated how transparent to be inthe statement, according to peo-ple familiar with the discussions.

Ultimately, the people said, thepresident signed off on a state-ment from Donald Trump Jr. forThe Times that was so incom-plete that it required day afterday of follow-up statements, eachmore revealing than the last. Itculminated on Tuesday with arelease of emails making clearthat Mr. Trump’s son believed theRussian lawyer was seeking tomeet with him to provide incrim-inating information about HillaryClinton as “part of Russia and itsgovernment’s support for Mr.Trump.”

The Russia story has becomethe brier patch from which thepresident seemingly cannotescape. It dominated his trip toEurope last week and, after heleaves on Wednesday night for acouple of days in France, it maydominate that trip as well. Everytime Mr. Trump tries to put thefuror behind him, more disclo-sures thrust it back onto theWashington agenda.

Even before the latest reports,Mr. Trump’s head-spinning will-

Russia StoryRefuses to LetThe Page Turn

White House RancorAnd Finger-Pointing

NEWS ANALYSIS

By PETER BAKERand MAGGIE HABERMAN

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The June 3, 2016, email sent toDonald Trump Jr. could hardlyhave been more explicit: One ofhis father’s former Russian busi-ness partners had been contactedby a senior Russian governmentofficial and was offering to pro-vide the Trump campaign withdirt on Hillary Clinton.

The documents “would incrimi-nate Hillary and her dealings withRussia and would be very usefulto your father,” read the email,written by a trusted intermediary,who added, “This is obviouslyvery high level and sensitive in-formation but is part of Russia andits government’s support for Mr.Trump.”

If the future president’s eldestson was surprised or disturbed bythe provenance of the promisedmaterial — or the notion that itwas part of a continuing effort bythe Russian government to aid hisfather’s campaign — he gave noindication.

He replied within minutes: “Ifit’s what you say I love it espe-cially later in the summer.”

Four days later, after a flurry ofemails, the intermediary wroteback, proposing a meeting in NewYork on Thursday with a “Russiangovernment attorney.”

Donald Trump Jr. agreed, add-ing that he would most likely bringalong “Paul Manafort (campaignboss)” and “my brother-in-law,”Jared Kushner, now one of thepresident’s closest White Houseadvisers.

On June 9, the Russian lawyerwas sitting in the younger Mr.Trump’s office on the 25th floor ofTrump Tower, just one level belowthe office of the future president.

Over the past several days, TheNew York Times has disclosed theexistence of the meeting, whom it

involved and what it was about.The story has unfolded as TheTimes has been able to confirmdetails of the meetings.

But the email exchanges, whichwere reviewed by The Times, of-fer a detailed unspooling of howthe meeting with the Kremlin-con-nected Russian lawyer, NataliaVeselnitskaya, came about — andjust how eager Donald Trump Jr.was to accept what he was explic-itly told was the Russian govern-ment’s help.

The Justice Department andthe House and Senate Intelligence

Committees are examiningwhether any of President Trump’sassociates colluded with the Rus-sian government to disrupt lastyear’s election. American intelli-gence agencies have determinedthat the Russian governmenttried to sway the election in favorof Mr. Trump.

The precise nature of thepromised damaging informationabout Mrs. Clinton is unclear, andthere is no evidence to suggestthat it was related to Russian-gov-ernment computer hacking thatled to the release of thousands of

EMAILS DISCLOSETRUMP SON’S GLEE

AT RUSSIAN OFFER‘I Love It,’ He Said of Word of Documents

Promised to Incriminate Clinton

This article is by Jo Becker, AdamGoldman and Matt Apuzzo.

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Donald Trump Jr.SAM HODGSON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

EVASIVE ANSWERS Senate Republicans weren’t as eager as theircolleagues across the aisle to weigh in on the Trump emails. PAGE A13

COLLUSION QUESTIONS A closer look at how the disclosure of emailsaffects the investigations of the Trump-Russia affair. PAGE A13

MOSCOW — When Americanprosecutors accused a senior Rus-sian official’s son of laundering $14million by investing in Manhattanproperty and other assets, shewas called to defend him. WhenMoscow regional officials battledIkea over the Swedish retailer’sexpansion, she took on their case.

Natalia Veselnitskaya, the Rus-sian lawyer who met with DonaldTrump Jr. last year to discuss pos-sible compromising material onthe Democrats, has been widelydepicted as a one-issue activistconsumed with getting Congressto repeal sanctions against Rus-sian businessmen.

But lawyers and others inMoscow’s legal community called

her a trusted insider, one whocould be counted on to argue andwin important high-profile courtcases that matter to the govern-ment and to one senior, well-con-nected official in particular.

Ms. Veselnitskaya, 42, earnedher status as the go-to lawyer forthe Moscow regional government.For years, she has been a lawyerfor the Katsyv family, whose patri-arch, Pyotr D. Katsyv, was min-ister of transportation of the Mos-cow region for more than a dec-ade, and whose son was caught up

in the New York money launder-ing case.

The elder Mr. Katsyv is now avice president of Russian Rail-ways, a state-owned railroad mo-nopoly that is the country’s larg-est employer and one long doggedby corruption allegations.

The junior Mr. Trump has saidhe accepted the meeting, whichincluded two high-ranking aidesof his father’s campaign, after anemail from an associate had saidthat someone advertised as a“Russian government attorney”would deliver information com-piled by the Russian state pros-ecutor that was damaging to Hil-lary Clinton.

It is not known exactly whatMs. Veselnitskaya said in theroughly 30-minute meeting. Don-ald Trump Jr. said she spent much

A Moscow Insider Trusted With Winning CasesBy NEIL MacFARQUHAR

and ANDREW E. KRAMER

ON JUN 3, 2016, AT 10:36 AM, ROB GOLDSTONE WROTE:

Good morning

Emin just called and asked me to contact you with something very

interesting.

The Crown prosecutor of Russia met with his father Aras this morning

and in their meeting offered to provide the Trump campaign with some

official documents and information that would incriminate Hillary and her

dealings with Russia and would be very useful to your father.

This is obviously very high level and sensitive information but is part of

Russia and its government’s support for Mr. Trump — helped along by

Aras and Emin.

What do you think is the best way to handle this information and would

you be able to speak to Emin about it directly?

I can also send this info to your father via Rhona, but it is ultra sensitive so

wanted to send to you first.

Best

Rob Goldstone

ON JUN 3, 2016, AT 10:53, DONALD TRUMP JR. WROTE:

Thanks Rob I appreciate that. I am on the road at the moment but perhaps

I just speak to Emin first. Seems we have some time and if it’s what you say

I love it especially later in the summer. Could we do a call first thing next

week when I am back?

Best,Don

Lawyer Who Met With2016 Team Is Known as Fearsome Rival

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Fifty years ago, racial tensions led toviolence and flames. People reflect onhow the unrest altered the city. PAGE A16

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Five Deadly Days in Newark

Iraq declared victory over the IslamicState in Mosul, but the terror group’slegacy lingers in the city. PAGE A7

What Remains in Mosul

Admirers of the dissident Nobel laure-ate, who has terminal cancer, say thatofficials in Beijing want to control hislegacy. PAGE A8

INTERNATIONAL A4-8

Liu Xiaobo’s Last DaysDespite growing doubts, Senator MitchMcConnell said that a revised bill wouldbe voted on next week. PAGE A11

NATIONAL A9-14

Full Speed Ahead on Health Bill

Officials studied the wreckage of aMarine Corps plane that crashed onMonday, leaving 16 dead. PAGE A14

Crash Investigation Begins

Canada is grappling with how to handlebillions of dollars of Chinese purchasesof oil companies, office buildings andcutting-edge tech firms. PAGE B1

BUSINESS DAY B1-8

Tensions Over Chinese Money

By abandoning development programs,the United States is risking global insta-bility, Eduardo Porter writes. PAGE B1

When Poverty Leads to Unrest

Don’t feel obligated to slog through aTV series. You can skip ahead to thegood parts, our critic writes. PAGE C1

ARTS C1-6

A New Way to Watch TV

As summer brings returning studentsand other guests to the table, we offertips for feeding the masses. PAGE D1

FOOD D1-10

To Cook for the Crowd

A French baker who spent years inAmerica is heading home to rescue hisnation’s faltering boulangeries. PAGE D1

Saving the Baguette

The Summer Games are expected to goto Paris in 2024 and Los Angeles in 2028in a rare simultaneous vote. PAGE B9

SPORTSWEDNESDAY B9-13

Double Decision on Olympics

Venus Williams continues to beat oppo-nents who were born in 1997, the yearshe first hit the grass there. PAGE B9

Hardly Her First Wimbledon

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