CMYK Nxxx,2014-10-30,A,001,Bs-BK,E2_+ Late Edition Today, partly sunny skies, cooler than the past few days, high 58. Tonight, clear to partly cloudy, low 45. Tomorrow, sun, then clouds, high 56. Weather map is on Page B17. VOL. CLXIV . . . No. 56,670 + © 2014 The New York Times $2.50 NEW YORK, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2014 REPEAT OFFENSES ARE SUSPECTED ON WALL STREET FROM DEMOCRATS, ELECTION FOCUS ON RACIAL SCARS CASES BEING REOPENED COURTING BLACK VOTERS Banks That Struck Deals in Past May Be Forced to Plead Guilty Attempt to Hold Senate Is Seen by the G.O.P. as Race-Baiting By JEREMY W. PETERS By BEN PROTESS and JESSICA SILVER-GREENBERG It would be the Wall Street equivalent of a parole violation: Just two years after avoiding prosecution for a variety of crimes, some of the world’s biggest banks are suspected of having broken their promises to behave. A mixture of new issues and lingering problems could violate earlier settlements that imposed new practices and fines on the banks but stopped short of criminal charges, according to lawyers briefed on the cases. Prosecutors are exploring whether to strengthen the earlier deals, the lawyers said, or scrap them altogether and force the banks to plead guilty to a crime. That effort, unfolding separately from a number of well-known investigations into Wall Street, has ensnared several giant banks and consulting firms that until now were thought to be in the clear. Prosecutors in Washington and Manhattan have reopened an investigation into Standard Chartered, the big British bank that reached a settlement in 2012 over accusations that it transferred billions of dollars for Iran and other nations blacklisted by the United States, according to the lawyers briefed on the cases. The prosecutors are questioning whether Standard Chartered, which has a large operation in New York, failed to disclose the extent of its wrongdoing to the government, imperiling the bank’s earlier settlement. New York State’s banking regulator is also taking a fresh look at old cases, reopening a 2013 settlement with the Bank of TokyoMitsubishi UFJ over accusations that the bank’s New York branch did business with Iran, according to the lawyers who were not authorized to speak publicly. The regulator, Benjamin M. Lawsky, the lawyers said, is negotiating a new settlement deal with the bank that, if it goes through, would involve a penalty larger than the $250 million it paid last year. Mr. Lawsky suspects that the bank initially played down the scope of its wrongdoing. PricewaterhouseCoopers, the influential consulting firm that advised the Japanese bank on Continued on Page B7 JOHN G. MABANGLO/EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY Madison Bumgarner’s masterly pitching in Game 7 in Kansas City helped the Giants beat the Royals, 3-2, to win the World Series. A Pitcher Rises Colorful Rogues Make Way for National Issues embodied Louisiana politics from To the Moment, the 1960s to the 1990s, charming one half of the state and mortifyAnd Jaws Drop NEW ROADS, La. — A poli- Louisiana ing the other, might as well be a By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON and JONATHAN MARTIN KANSAS CITY, Mo. Now he belongs to history, alongside Christy Mathewson and Sandy Koufax, Bob Gibson and Randy Johnson. The pantheon of World Series pitching greats must welcome a new member. Madison Bumgarner burst into the club with a performance for the ON BASEBALL ages in Game 7 of the World Series on Wednesday. Bumgarner, a longhaired, bearded left-hander from Hickory, N.C., squeezed the life from the plucky Kansas City Royals with fastballs, cutters and curveballs slung sideways from an arm that had only two days’ rest. Bumgarner, 25, shut out the Royals on two hits for the final five innings, preserving a 3-2 victory for the San Francisco Giants and clinching the team’s third championship in five seasons. Bumgarner, who beat the Royals in Game 1 and fired a shutout in Game 5, was named the World Series most valuable player. Late Tuesday, he had dismissed any concerns about pitchContinued on Page B21 TYLER KEPNER tician at a street fair is usually an inconvenience, an ordeal to be endured as he thrusts a flier at your chest and a smile at your face. But the silver-haired candidate pushing his 1-year-old in a stroller through the funnel-cake stands and craft booths at the harvest festival here did not have to try so hard. The glad-handers rushed up to him. “I’d vote for you! I voted for you plenty of times!” shouted STAT E S I N P L AY Mark Wells, 58, a retired state employee. Edwin W. Edwards, 87, a fourterm former governor and eightyear former federal inmate, is back on the trail, this time as a long-shot Democratic contender for a House seat and salvation for magazine feature writers in a dreary election year. For all his color, though, Mr. Edwards, the populist rogue who ghost. The main political event this year, the Senate race, could not be further removed from the Edwards era. No one here at the harvest festival was particularly excited about Senator Mary L. Landrieu, a three-term Democrat, or Representative Bill Cassidy, the Republican challenger who will most likely face Ms. Landrieu in a runoff. A few said Continued on Page A18 Cuomo Role in Storm Inquiry Foretold an Ethics Panel’s Fate In the final days before the election, Democrats in the closest Senate races across the South are turning to racially charged messages — invoking Trayvon Martin’s death, the unrest in Ferguson, Mo., and Jim Crow-era segregation — to jolt African-Americans into voting and stop a Republican takeover in Washington. The images and words they are using are striking for how overtly they play on fears of intimidation and repression. And their source is surprising. The effort is being led by national Democrats and their state party organizations — not, in most instances, by the shadowy and often untraceable political action committees that typically employ such provocative messages. In North Carolina, the “super PAC” started by Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the majority leader, ran an ad on black radio that accused the Republican candidate, Thom Tillis, of leading an effort to pass the kind of gun law that “caused the shooting death of Trayvon Martin.” In Georgia, Democrats are circulating a flier warning that voting is the only way “to prevent another Ferguson.” It shows two black children holding cardboard signs that say “Don’t shoot.” The messages are coursing through the campaigns like a riptide, powerful and under the surface, largely avoiding television and out of view of white voters. That has led Republicans to accuse Democrats of turning to race-baiting in a desperate bid to win at the polls next Tuesday. “They have been playing on this nerve in the black community that if you even so much as look at a Republican, churches will start to burn, your civil rights will be taken away and young black men like Trayvon Martin will die,” said Michael Steele, a former chairman of the Republican Party. “The reality of it is, the Democrats realize that their most loyal constituency is not as loyal as they once were.” Democrats say Republicans need to own their record of passing laws hostile to African-American interests on issues like voting rights. The decision to use such overt appeals reflects just how much they are relying on black voters in the states in the old Confederacy, where key Senate races could decide which party controls the chamber. Democrats are defending vulnerable incumbents in Arkansas, Louisiana and North Carolina. And if they lose more than one of Continued on Page A19 A Small Latino Shift BOB ADELMAN/CORBIS By SUSANNE CRAIG Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has faced intense scrutiny in recent months, including an investigation by federal prosecutors, over his management of a commission that he created to root out corruption in New York politics, but prevented from examining his administration’s conduct and then prematurely shut down. An analysis of Mr. Cuomo’s handling of an earlier investigative commission, which highlighted the failures of electric companies in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, reveals some of the same hallmarks: interference, efforts to shield his administration’s role and a sense that the governor had a clear idea at the outset of what the commission should conclude. His first use of the Moreland Act, which empowers governors to investigate problems and recommend solutions, focused heavily on the post-hurricane failures of the Long Island Power Authority. A state-run utility, it had a hapless history and a fed-up customer base from the Rockaways to the Hamptons. The storm, which devastated much of the metropolitan area on Oct. 29, 2012, left nearly one million customers without power on Long Island alone. The Moreland Commission, appointed 15 days later, quickly rendered a harsh verdict: The auContinued on Page A26 A Composer of Plain-Spoken Verses The poet Galway Kinnell, above in 1984, who won a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award in 1983, died Tuesday at his home in Sheffield, Vt. He was 87. Obituary, Page A29. Obama Could Replace Aides Bruised by a Cascade of Crises By MARK LANDLER WASHINGTON — One day this month, as the nation shuddered with fears of an Ebola outbreak and American warplanes pounded Sunni militants in Syria, President Obama’s national security adviser, Susan E. Rice, invited a group of foreign policy experts to the White House to hear their views of how the administration was performing. She was peppered with critiques of the president’s Syria and China policies, as well as the White House’s delays in releasing a national security strategy, a congressionally mandated document that sets out foreign policy goals. On that last point, Ms. Rice had a sardonic reply. “If we had put it out in Febru- ary or April or July,” she said, according to two people who were in the room, “it would have been overtaken by events two weeks later, in any one of those months.” At a time when the Obama administration is lurching from crisis to crisis — a looming Cold War in Europe, a brutal Islamic caliphate in the Middle East and a deadly epidemic in West Africa — it is not surprising that long- INTERNATIONAL A6-12 NATIONAL Chemical Exposure Checks Scrutiny of a State’s Lawyer The Pentagon will offer medical exams and health monitoring to service members and veterans exposed to chemical PAGE A7 warfare agents in Iraq. Missouri plans to investigate whether donations influenced decisions by its attorney general. PAGE A14 BUSINESS DAY B1-13 Egypt Razes Homes on Border Fed Wraps Up Bond-Buying The Egyptian Army began demolishing hundreds of houses on the Gaza border to create a security buffer zone. PAGE A8 The central bank, led by Janet L. Yellen, cut back on a stimulus but said interest rates would remain near zero. PAGE B1 With immigration reform stalled, support for Democrats among Latinos has declined slightly, a poll shows. Page A19. NEW YORK A24-28 NATIONAL A13-22 Nurse May Fight Quarantine A nurse who cared for Ebola patients was preparing to challenge whether Maine can quarantine her. PAGE A20 Bank Error: Collect $1.5 Million Mayor’s Focus on Albany Races Remaking Ferguson Police Credit Suisse said it paid a hedge fund manager by mistake. Now it can’t find the money or the manager. PAGE B1 Bill de Blasio and his team have taken a lead in trying to secure a Democratic majority in the State Senate. PAGE A24 A Missouri town’s police force needs “wholesale change,” Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said. PAGE A13 SPORTSTHURSDAY B14-21 Continued on Page A12 ARTS C1-8 When Football Ends Early High school football seasons and games are being canceled for lack of players. At some schools, fewer students want to play than used to. Among those who do, PAGE B14 injuries are on the rise. EDITORIAL, OP-ED A30-31 Gail Collins term strategy would take a back seat. But it raises inevitable questions about the ability of the president and his hard-pressed national security team to manage and somehow get ahead of the daily onslaught of events. Early stumbles in the government’s handling of the Ebola crisis as well as its belated response PAGE A29 New Visions for the Hirshhorn Melissa Chiu, the new director of the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, plans to make it a showcase for experimental and international works. PAGE C1 U(D54G1D)y+[!&![!#!&