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VOL. CLXIII ... No. 56,278 © 2013 The New York Times NEW YORK, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2013 Late Edition Today, partly sunny, warmer than average, high 80. Tonight, patchy clouds, mild, low 64. Tomorrow, clouds, breaks of sun, a stray show- er, high 77. Weather map, Page A26. $2.50 U(D54G1D)y+[!"!&!=!% By SABRINA TAVERNISE and ROBERT GEBELOFF A sweeping national effort to extend health coverage to mil- lions of Americans will leave out two-thirds of the poor blacks and single mothers and more than half of the low-wage workers who do not have insurance, the very kinds of people that the program was intended to help, according to an analysis of census data by The New York Times. Because they live in states largely controlled by Republicans that have declined to participate in a vast expansion of Medicaid, the medical insurance program for the poor, they are among the eight million Americans who are impoverished, uninsured and in- eligible for help. The federal gov- ernment will pay for the expan- sion through 2016 and no less than 90 percent of costs in later years. Those excluded will be strand- ed without insurance, stuck be- tween people with slightly higher incomes who will qualify for fed- eral subsidies on the new health exchanges that went live this week, and those who are poor enough to qualify for Medicaid in its current form, which has in- come ceilings as low as $11 a day in some states. People shopping for insurance on the health exchanges are al- ready discovering this bitter twist. “How can somebody in poverty not be eligible for subsidies?” an unemployed health care worker in Virginia asked through tears. The woman, who identified her- self only as Robin L. because she does not want potential employ- ers to know she is down on her luck, thought she had run into a computer problem when she went online Tuesday and learned she would not qualify. At 55, she has high blood pres- sure, and she had been waiting for the law to take effect so she could get coverage. Before she lost her job and her house and had to move in with her brother in Virginia, she lived in Mary- land, a state that is expanding Medicaid. “Would I go back there?” she asked. “It might in- volve me living in my car. I don’t know. I might consider it.” The 26 states that have re- jected the Medicaid expansion are home to about half of the country’s population, but about 68 percent of poor, uninsured blacks and single mothers. About 60 percent of the country’s unin- sured working poor are in those states. Among those excluded are about 435,000 cashiers, 341,000 cooks and 253,000 nurses’ aides. “The irony is that these states Millions of Poor Are Left Uncovered by Health Law Choice by States Not to Expand Medicaid Undercuts Reach of Obama Plan Share who are poor and uninsured among adults ages 19 to 64, excluding residents of institutions and ineligible immigrants. Source: New York Times analysis of census data THE NEW YORK TIMES Area with fewer than 5 people per square mile In states that are expanding Medicaid, 6.8 percent of adults ages 19 to 64 are poor and uninsured … … while in states that are not currently participating in the expansion, 9.1 percent are poor and uninsured. 3% 6% 9% 12% Continued on Page A18 By FRANCES ROBLES A sweeping investigation into cases handled years ago by a re- tired Brooklyn homicide detec- tive has turned up a witness to a 1995 murder who says the police coached him into giving false tes- timony. The witness, Sharron Ivory, gave crucial evidence in one of roughly 40 trial convictions han- dled by the detective, Louis Scar- cella, that are now being re- viewed by the Brooklyn district attorney’s office. The review was prompted by revelations that Mr. Scarcella sometimes engaged in questionable tactics, and may have helped frame an innocent man in another case. Mr. Ivory was interviewed in recent weeks, first by a pair of de- tectives and then by an assistant district attorney, he said in a tele- phone interview. He told them he was lying nearly 20 years ago when he said he could identify the man who shot his cousin, a lit- tle girl who was struck by a stray bullet in a case that caused con- siderable public outrage. Mr. Ivory’s account is just one facet of the broad investigation into Mr. Scarcella’s cases that was announced nearly five months ago by the Brooklyn dis- trict attorney, Charles J. Hynes. Going back decades, and cover- ing years’ worth of convictions, it is a highly unusual re-examining of the work of a detective who, at the time, was among the most productive in New York City. And while Mr. Ivory says he was in- terviewed, lawyers for other de- fendants, as well as some of those Murder Witness Says Police Coached Lie in 1995 Continued on Page A25 By NICOLE PERLROTH and SCOTT SHANE DALLAS — One day last May, Ladar Levison returned home to find an F.B.I. agent’s business card on his Dallas doorstep. So began a four-month tangle with law enforcement officials that would end with Mr. Levison’s shutting the business he had spent a decade building and be- coming an unlikely hero of pri- vacy advocates in their escalat- ing battle with the government over Internet security. Prosecutors, it turned out, were pursuing a notable user of Lavabit, Mr. Levison’s secure e-mail service: Edward J. Snow- den, the former National Security Agency contractor who leaked classified documents that have put the intelligence agency under sharp scrutiny. Mr. Levison was willing to allow investigators with a court order to tap Mr. Snowden’s e-mail account; he had complied with similar nar- rowly targeted requests involv- ing other customers about two dozen times. But they wanted more, he said: the passwords, encryption keys and computer code that would es- sentially allow the government untrammeled access to the pro- tected messages of all his cus- tomers. That, he said, was too much. “You don’t need to bug an en- tire city to bug one guy’s phone calls,” Mr. Levison, 32, said in a recent interview. “In my case, they wanted to break open the entire box just to get to one con- nection.” On Aug. 8, Mr. Levison closed Lavabit rather than, in his view, betray his promise of secure e-mail to his customers. The move, which he explained in a let- ter on his Web site, drew fervent support from civil libertarians but was seen by prosecutors as Waging Privacy Fight as F.B.I. Pursued Snowden Continued on Page A19 By JIM YARDLEY ROME — He seemed stunned, if immaculately tailored in a dark suit that sheathed him like armor. But the Silvio Berlusconi who stood before the Italian Senate on Wednesday was no longer invin- cible. His brazen attempt to bring down Italy’s coalition govern- ment had provoked a mutiny in his own party. Most startling, Mr. Berlusconi, the powerful former prime minister, was reversing himself and bending to the rebel- lion. For all the Shakespearean ele- ments of pride, betrayal and hu- bris displayed on Wednesday during the political theatrics, the government survived a confi- dence vote with unexpected ease. The more significant news was that moderates promising deep reforms scored an unusually de- cisive victory in the most un- stable of the euro zone’s big econ- omies. At a time when several major countries, notably including the United States, are paralyzed by partisan political warfare, the de- feat for Mr. Berlusconi was greet- ed by many as a welcome, if still tentative, sign that Italy could carry out long-delayed changes to its political system and take steps to revive its sclerotic econ- omy. “We are seeing the long twi- light of the Berlusconi era,” said Roberto D’Alimonte, a political analyst in Rome. Mr. Berlusconi’s attempt to bring down the government was intended to resuscitate his en- dangered political career as he faces a pending prison sentence, analysts say. Instead, it fractured Mutiny Halts Italian Gambit By Berlusconi ALESSANDRO DI MEO/EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY Silvio Berlusconi, center, had to reverse himself on Wednesday and pledge support for the Italian government he failed to topple. Continued on Page A4 By MICHAEL COOPER They are among the highest- paid performers at Carnegie Hall, even though they do not play a note: they are the stagehands of Local 1, whose average total com- pensation of more than $400,000 a year is more than some of the hall’s top executives earn. Little happens on Carnegie’s stages without them. Now, with scant notice, Car- negie seems to have decided to take a stand against the powerful union, refusing in contract talks to let the stagehands extend their sway to an educational wing to be opened next year above the hall. The stagehands struck back on Wednesday, calling the first strike in the history of Carnegie Hall and forcing the cancellation of a star-studded opening-night gala on Wednesday that was to have featured the Philadelphia Orchestra and the violinist Josh- ua Bell playing before a crowd of well-heeled patrons. The strike not only silenced America’s flagship concert hall on what was to have been one of its biggest nights of the year, but also capped an extraordinary week that underscored the perils facing classical music in America in the 21st century. Another of the city’s cultural mainstays, New York City Opera, announced its plans to dissolve and file for bankruptcy this week, bringing 70 years of operatic his- tory to an end. In the Midwest, la- bor strife cost the Minnesota Or- chestra its beloved music direc- tor, Osmo Vanska, who resigned For First Time, Strike Shutters Carnegie Hall Continued on Page A27 By JEREMY W. PETERS WASHINGTON — It was not enough for Senator Harry Reid to just dismiss Republican offers as “vexatious” or “kid’s stuff” or “one cockamamie, can’t-pass idea after another.” He called the White House and asked it to issue a veto threat, which it promptly did. It was not enough for Mr. Reid, the majority leader, to accuse his counterpart in the House, Speak- er John A. Boehner, of being dragged around by a tribe of rogue “banana Republicans.” He leaked a series of e-mails be- tween their offices in an attempt to humiliate the speaker. With Congress locked in an in- tractable budget dispute that kept the federal government shut down for a second day on Wednesday, Mr. Reid is not only acting as the public face of the no-compromise posture of Demo- crats on Capitol Hill, he is the power behind the scenes driving a hard-line strategy that the White House and Congressional Democrats are hoping will force Republicans to crack. His tactics have been unapolo- getically aggressive, even when measured by the fast and loose rules of engagement in a political climate so bitterly polarized. Advisers and Senate col- leagues say that Mr. Reid, of Ne- vada, who at 73 is more wily and scrappy than his stooped posture In Showdown With G.O.P., A Scrappy Reid Plays Hardball STEPHEN CROWLEY/THE NEW YORK TIMES Senator Harry Reid and Representative Nancy Pelosi met Wednesday with the president and Speaker John A. Boehner. Continued on Page A20 The president won’t negotiate before Congress acts on the budg- et and debt ceiling. Page A21. Obama Says Not Now An international team of weapons in- spectors has arrived in the Syrian capi- tal, Damascus, to lay the groundwork for destroying Syria’s chemical arms, but it is unclear how it will navigate the complex task amid a brutal civil war and shifting battle lines. PAGE A6 INTERNATIONAL A4-12 Inspectors Begin Work in Syria The governor’s race in Virginia could be a gauge of voter anger over gridlock in Washington. PAGE A14 NATIONAL A14-22 A Measure of Voter Pique Officials say they have arrested the mastermind behind a vast Internet mar- ketplace for illicit goods. PAGE A3 NEW YORK A3, A23-27 Online Black Market Revealed Libraries could help in hurricanes, Mi- chael Kimmelman writes. PAGE C1 ARTS C1-10 Havens for Books and Safety As the shutdown continues, Wall Street sees a greater concern: that the govern- ment may default in two weeks. PAGE B1 BUSINESS DAY B1-11 Wall St. Wary of Default Peril The adored decorating magazine is back again, but this time it’s a store. PAGE D1 HOME D1-8 Another Iteration of Domino An author of best-selling military and espionage thrillers, Mr. Clancy packed his novels with detail about intelligence groups and weaponry. Many of his books, like “The Hunt for Red October,” were adapted into Hollywood blockbust- ers. He was 66. PAGE A28 OBITUARIES A28-29 Tom Clancy Is Dead The American designer Marc Jacobs, who helped revive Louis Vuitton after arriving there in 1997, is leaving the company. PAGE E1 As Paris Fashion Week closes, Cathy Horyn reviews Mr. Jacobs’s last collec- tion for the label. PAGE A32 THURSDAY STYLES E1-14 A Vuitton Closeout Nicholas D. Kristof PAGE A31 EDITORIAL, OP-ED A30-31 Tampa Bay beat Cleveland, 4-0, in the American League wild-card game, and will play Boston next. PAGE B15 SPORTSTHURSDAY B12-17 Rays Advance With Shutout
