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WASHINGTON — Federalprosecutors are examiningwhether they have sufficient evi-dence to open a criminal investi-gation into Andrew G. McCabe,the former F.B.I. deputy director,his lawyer said on Thursday, aftera Justice Department inspectorgeneral report repeatedly faultedhim for misleading investigators.

The inquiry is certain to add toan already corrosive atmospherepitting Mr. McCabe and other cur-rent and former law enforcementofficials against President Trump.The president has accused themof concocting a baseless investiga-tion into possible links betweenhis associates and Russia’s elec-tion interference.

The inspector general referredhis findings on Mr. McCabe toprosecutors in the United Statesattorney’s office for the District ofColumbia in recent weeks, accord-ing to Mr. McCabe’s lawyer, Mi-chael R. Bromwich, who called thestep unjustified and stressed thatthe White House should not inter-

fere in an independent law en-forcement investigation.

“We are confident that, unlessthere is inappropriate pressurefrom high levels of the administra-tion, the U.S. attorney’s office willconclude that it should decline toprosecute,” Mr. Bromwich said.

Case of Ex-F.B.I. Deputy ChiefIs Sent for Possible Prosecution

This article is by Adam Goldman,Katie Benner and Alexandra Alter.

Andrew G. McCabeAL DRAGO/THE NEW YORK TIMES

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North Korea has dropped its de-mand that American troops be re-moved from South Korea as a con-dition for giving up its nuclearweapons, South Korea’s presidentsaid Thursday in presenting theidea to the United States.

President Moon Jae-in por-trayed the proposal as a conces-sion on the eve of talks involvingthe two Koreas and the UnitedStates. The North has long de-manded that the 28,500 Americantroops be withdrawn, citing theirpresence as a pretext to justify itspursuit of nuclear weapons.

But in Washington, the Trumpadministration privately dis-missed the idea that it was a capit-ulation by the North because anAmerican withdrawal from theSouth was never on the table.Mike Pompeo, the C.I.A. directorwhom President Trump secretlysent to Pyongyang two weeks agoto meet Kim Jong-un, the NorthKorean leader, did not ask him totake such a step, senior officialssaid.

The move could increase pres-sure on the United States to sup-port negotiations between Northand South Korea on a peace treatythat would end the Korean War.While Mr. Trump gave those talkshis blessing this week, officialssaid his ultimate goal is to forceNorth Korea to relinquish its nu-clear program. A peace treaty,they said, should be signed onlyafter the North has given up itsweapons.

Mr. Trump has expressed ex-citement about his own planned

AN OLIVE BRANCHBY NORTH KOREAIS VIEWED WARILY

KIM GIVES UP A DEMAND

Proposal to Tolerate U.S. Troops in South May

Pressure Trump

By MARK LANDLERand CHOE SANG-HUN

Soldiers at the “truce village” of Panmunjom, where the North and South Korean leaders will meet for the first time on April 27.CHUNG SUNG-JUN/GETTY IMAGES

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Rudolph W. Giuliani, the formerNew York City mayor and long-time friend of President Trump,will join the president’s legal teamin an effort to “quickly” resolvethe special counsel investigationinto Russian election interferenceand possible ties to Trump associ-ates.

Mr. Trump will also bring onJane Serene Raskin and Martin R.Raskin, former federal prosecu-tors based in Florida, according toMr. Trump’s lawyer Jay Sekulow.Mr. Giuliani is himself a formerfederal prosecutor.

“The president said: ‘Rudy isgreat. He has been my friend for along time and wants to get thismatter quickly resolved for thegood of the country,’” Mr. Sekulow

said in a statement.The three new lawyers give Mr.

Trump a broader legal stable torely on as he faces not just the spe-cial counsel, Robert S. Mueller III,but the threat of an investigationby federal prosecutors in Manhat-tan into the president’s longtimepersonal lawyer and fixer, Mi-chael D. Cohen. Federal agentsraided Mr. Cohen’s office and hotelroom last week.

Mr. Trump has a difficult timeretaining top-flight lawyers as theinquiries have increasingly unset-tled him, and he has angrilychafed against his lawyers’ legalstrategies.

Mr. Trump and his associatesbelieve the issues in New York

Giuliani to Lend Legal FirepowerAs Trump’s Team Adds Lawyers

By MAGGIE HABERMAN and MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT

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They had shown the immigra-tion officer their proof — the eightyears of Facebook photos, their 5-year-old son’s birth certificate, theletters from relatives and friendsaffirming their commitment —and now they were so close, Karahde Oliveira thought, so nearly anormal couple.

Thirteen years after her hus-band was ordered deported backto his native Brazil, the official rec-ognition of their marriage wouldbring him within a few signaturesof being able to call himself anAmerican. With legal papers, theycould buy a house and get a bankloan. He could board a plane. Theycould take their son to DisneyWorld.

Then the officer reappeared.

“I’ve got some good news andsome bad news,” he said. “Thegood news is, I’m going to approveyour application. Clearly, yourmarriage is real. The bad news is,ICE is here, and they want tospeak with you.”

ICE was Immigration andCustoms Enforcement, the federalagency charged with arrestingand deporting unauthorized im-migrants — including, for the mo-ment, Fabiano de Oliveira. In aback room of the immigration of-fice in Lawrence, Mass., twoagents were waiting with hand-cuffs. Her husband was apologiz-ing, saying he was sorry forputting her through all of this.

Ms. de Oliveira kissed him

Marriage, a Path to Citizenship,Becomes a Road to Deportation

By VIVIAN YEE

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Federal regulators are poised toimpose a $1 billion fine on WellsFargo for years of selling unneces-sary products to customers, thetoughest action by the Trump ad-ministration against a majorbank.

The penalty, part of an expectedsettlement on Friday between thebank and two regulators, the Con-sumer Financial Protection Bu-reau and the Office of the Comp-troller of the Currency, will punishWells Fargo for forcing customersto buy auto insurance policiesthey did not need and other mis-deeds, according to four peoplebriefed on the regulatory action.

It is the latest blow to WellsFargo. For years it was regardedas one of the country’s best-runbanks, but lately it has been reel-ing from a string of self-inflictedcrises.

President Trump has been es-pecially vocal about holding Wellsto account, taking to Twitter lastyear to warn that the bank couldface stiff penalties. But he hasbeen equally adamant about dis-mantling banking rules, part of abroader regulatory rollback.

The consumer bureau is carry-ing out both agendas. The agen-cy’s interim director, Mick Mul-vaney, has pushed aggressivelyfor the penalty against Wells. Theconsumer bureau’s portion of thepenalty is likely to represent thelargest fine in its history.

Mr. Mulvaney is simulta-neously working to defang theconsumer bureau, an agency that

OFFICIALS TO LAYA $1 BILLION FINE

ON WELLS FARGO

REBUKE FOR LOAN ABUSE

Consumer Agency ShowsTeeth While Trump Is

Defanging It

By EMILY FLITTERand GLENN THRUSH

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Wells Fargo deserved to pay forits misdeeds, James B. Stewartwrites. But will more punishmentjust hurt shareholders? Page B1.

Justice or Overkill?

HAVANA — As soon as Cubaand the Obama administrationdecided to restore diplomaticrelations, decades of bitter stag-nation began to give way. Em-bassies were being reopened.Americans streamed to the is-land. The curtain was suddenlypulled back from Cuba, a nationfrozen out by the Cold War.

But one mystery remained:While nearly everyone knew ofCuba’s president, Raúl Castro, hishandpicked successor, MiguelDíaz-Canel Bermúdez, was virtu-ally unknown.

So when members of theUnited States Congress visitedCuba in early 2015, they pep-pered Mr. Díaz-Canel with ques-tions: What did he think of therevolution that defined the is-land’s politics and its place on theworld stage?

“I was born in 1960, after therevolution,” he told the group,according to lawmakers in themeeting. “I’m not the best per-son to answer your questions on

the subject.”Mr. Díaz-Canel, who became

Cuba’s new president on Thurs-day, the day before his 58thbirthday, has spent his entire life

in the service of a revolution hedid not fight.

Born one year after FidelCastro’s forces took control of theisland, Mr. Díaz-Canel is the first

person outside the Castro dy-nasty to lead Cuba in decades.

He took the helm of govern-ment on Thursday morning to astanding ovation from the Na-tional Assembly, which electedhim in a nearly unanimous vote.Mr. Castro embraced him, liftingthe younger man’s arm in tri-umph.

Mr. Díaz-Canel’s slow andsteady climb up the ranks of thebureaucracy has come throughunflagging loyalty to the socialistcause — he “is not an upstart norimprovised,” Mr. Castro has said— but he largely stayed behindthe scenes until recent years.

Now, as leader, Mr. Díaz-Canelis suddenly taking on a difficultbalancing act. Most expect himto be a president of continuity,especially because he arrives inthe shadow of Raúl Castro, whowill remain the head of thearmed forces and the CommunistParty, arguably Cuba’s mostpowerful institutions.

But Mr. Díaz-Canel also has tofigure out how to resuscitate theeconomy at a time when Presi-

MAN IN THE NEWS MIGUEL DÍAZ-CANEL BERMÚDEZ

Cuba’s New Leader: Progressive, Hard-Liner, Enigma

Cuba’s National Assembly elected Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez,left, on Thursday to succeed Raúl Castro, right, as president.

IRENE PEREZ/CUBADEBATE, VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS

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By AZAM AHMEDand FRANCES ROBLES

A Pentagon report said allied missilestrikes last week set back Syria’s chem-ical weapons program but were unlikelyto put an end to attacks. PAGE A8

INTERNATIONAL A4-13

Mission Not So CertainThe authorities in Minnesota said thatno one would be prosecuted in themusician’s death from fentanyl. A doc-tor will pay a civil settlement. PAGE A17

NATIONAL A14-22

No Charges in Prince’s DeathThe cyclist Lance Armstrong, accusedof defrauding the U.S. Postal Service bydoping while under its sponsorship, willpay the government $5 million. PAGE B9

SPORTSFRIDAY B9-13

Armstrong Settles Fraud Case Senator Cory Gardner PAGE A31

EDITORIAL, OP-ED A30-31

BIG VOTE Mike Pompeo nearedconfirmation as secretary of statewhen Senator Heidi Heitkamp, aDemocrat, backed him. PAGE A22

Fees like the $17 to cross the VerrazanoBridge are a symbol of glaring inequi-ties in the transportation system. Thetolls are getting a closer look. PAGE A23

NEW YORK A23-27

‘Crazy High’ Tolls

MEMOS The Justice Departmentsent Congress redacted copies ofmemos James B. Comey wroteabout the president. PAGE A20

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