VOL. CLXV . . . No. 57,041 © 2015 The New York Times NEW YORK, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2015

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Another overcrowded boat of refugees reached Lesbos, Greece, on Tuesday. The flood of migrants has not waned. Page A8.

When Icy Seas Seem Safer Than Life at Home

By ELISABETH MALKIN and AZAM AHMED

The Mexican Supreme Courtopened the door to legalizing ma-rijuana on Wednesday, deliveringa pointed challenge to the na-tion’s strict substance abuse lawsand adding its weight to thegrowing debate in Latin Americaover the costs and consequencesof the war against drugs.

The vote by the court’s crimi-nal chamber declared that indi-viduals should have the right togrow and distribute marijuanafor their personal use. While theruling does not strike down cur-rent drug laws, it lays thegroundwork for a wave of legalactions that could ultimately re-write them, proponents of legal-ization say.

The decision reflects a chang-ing dynamic in Mexico, where fordecades the American-backedantidrug campaign has producedmuch upheaval but few lastingvictories. Today, the flow of drugsto the United States continues,along with the political corrup-tion it fuels in Mexico. The coun-try, dispirited by the ceaselesscampaign against traffickers, re-mains engulfed in violence.

“It’s the drama behind all ofour efforts,” said Juan FranciscoTorres Landa, a corporate lawyerwho was one of the plaintiffs inthe Supreme Court case.

The marijuana case has igniteda debate about the effectivenessof imprisoning drug users in acountry with some of the mostconservative drug laws in LatinAmerica. But across the region, agrowing number of voices arequestioning Washington’s strat-egy in the drug war. With little toshow for tough-on-crime policies,the balance appears to be slowlyshifting toward other approach-es.

Uruguay enacted a law in 2013to legalize marijuana, though thecreation of a legal marijuana in-dustry in the small country hasunfolded slowly. Chile gatheredits first harvest of medical mari-juana this year. In Brazil, the Su-preme Court recently debatedthe decriminalization of marijua-na, cocaine and other drugs. AndBolivia allows traditional uses ofcoca, the plant used to make co-caine.

Many leaders in Latin Americahave called for a shift in policy,including President Juan ManuelSantos of Colombia. In May, his

RULING IN MEXICO SETS INTO MOTIONLEGAL MARIJUANA

DISSENSION IN DRUG WAR

Decision Adds Weight

to a Growing Debate

in Latin America

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By MICHAEL BARBAROand STEVE EDER

A decade after he began usinga Republican Party credit cardfor personal purchases like pav-ing stones at his home, SenatorMarco Rubio on Wednesdaypledged to disclose new spendingrecords from that account as hesought to inoculate himselfagainst what could be his biggest

liability as a presidential candi-date: how he manages his fi-nances.

The decision to release therecords highlights the enduringpotency of a controversy rootedin Mr. Rubio’s days as a youngstate representative in Floridathat he and his aides thought hadbeen put to rest with his 2010election to the Senate.

His use of the card for a familyreunion, flights and groceries

was a recurring issue in thatcampaign.

But as his presidential cam-paign experiences a surge in thepolls, Mr. Rubio’s rivals are rush-ing to resurrect the matter in anattempt to portray him as a care-less manager of money, despiteMr. Rubio’s assurances that hepaid for every personal purchasehimself.

A “super PAC” supporting Hil-Continued on Page A19

Rubio Seeks to Tamp Down Scrutiny of Finances

By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA

The shooting death of a policelieutenant made national newsand brought a stretch of northernIllinois to a tense standstill withroadblocks, thudding helicoptersand officers tramping with dogsthrough woods and over farm-land, searching for the killers.The lieutenant, Charles J. Gli-niewicz, was hailed as a hero, andsome conservatives seized onthis and other shootings as evi-dence that critics of the policewere fueling a wave of violenceagainst law enforcement.

But on Wednesday, more thantwo months after Lieutenant Gli-niewicz was found dead in FoxLake, a small town northwest ofChicago, law enforcement offi-cials said the truth was some-thing very different: He took hisown life.

Still more surprising was the

explanation they offered. Theysaid that Lieutenant Gliniewicz,52, a local fixture admired for hiswork with young people, hadbeen stealing money from thetown for years and feared he wasabout to be caught.

There is “an overwhelmingamount of evidence that Gliniew-icz’s death was a carefully stagedsuicide,” Commander GeorgeFilenko of the Lake County MajorCrime Task Force said at a newsconference. He said that a reviewof tens of thousands of emails,text messages and phone calls,along with bank records, showed

Officer’s Death Stuns Illinois Town a 2nd Time

JOSHUA LOTT FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

A memorial for Lt. Charles J. Gliniewicz in September. Officials said he embezzled for years.

Continued on Page A16

Not Murder, but Suicide

After Years of Theft,

Police SayBy STEPHEN CASTLE

LONDON — The British gov-ernment on Wednesday suspend-ed flights to the Egyptian resortof Sharm el Sheikh over concernsthat a chartered Russian jetlinermight have been brought down inthe Sinai Peninsula by a bomb onboard.

The announcement by PrimeMinister David Cameron haltingflights was the strongest actionso far by any government officialto suggest that the plane, whichcrashed within a half-hour of de-parting Sharm el Sheikh on Sat-urday, killing all 224 people onboard, was brought down by anact of terrorism.

A European official briefed onthe investigation said an initialinspection of the flight data re-corder recovered from the planeindicated that the recordingceased abruptly, evidence thatwould support the theory of amidair explosion.

American military officials saidTuesday that satellite surveil-lance had detected a flash of lightjust as the jet broke apart, in-dicating it had blown up, becauseof a bomb, an accidental explo-sion of fuel or a catastrophic me-chanical failure.

But American defense, intelli-

Britain HaltsSinai Flights,Fearing Bomb

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By THOMAS KAPLAN

On a wintry Sunday in Febru-ary, Mayor Bill de Blasio of NewYork huddled at Gracie Mansionwith a trusted adviser, John DelCecato, to polish his marqueespeech of 2015, the annual Stateof the City address.

In the days before the address,Mr. de Blasio and Mr. Del Cecatowould spend hours together,meeting at City Hall and GracieMansion. Those sessions, accord-ing to the mayor’s schedules,were among roughly 60 theyshared in the first 17 months ofhis administration.

Mr. Del Cecato is not on Mr. deBlasio’s staff — at least not offi-cially. He is one of several politi-cal consultants advising theDemocratic mayor whose firmshave been paid using money con-tributed by private donors.

These consultants helpedguide Mr. de Blasio’s campaignfor mayor in 2013, and they haveremained at his side as a kind ofprivately funded brain trust, of-fering strategic advice and help-ing to shape the message thatcomes from City Hall. Their in-volvement also poses conflict-of-interest concerns, as some of theconsultants’ firms have clientsthat do business with the city.

For their place in the mayor’sorbit, these consultants havebeen well compensated: In thefirst year and a half of his term,their firms have collected nearly$2.3 million in payments. Most ofthe money has come from a non-profit organization, the Cam-paign for One New York, that wascreated by political professionalsfrom his mayoral campaign as avehicle to push his initiatives,and whose donors have includedreal estate developers and un-ions.

Through the middle of thisyear, 77 percent of the group’sspending went to several consult-ing firms that also worked for Mr.de Blasio’s 2013 campaign.

The mayor’s reliance on pri-vate consultants seems to runcontrary to the image he has cul-tivated. As mayor, he has crit-icized the role that the “consult-ant class” played in politics; inhis previous elective office, as thecity’s public advocate, he as-sailed the influence of politicaldonors hiding behind “politicalcommittees that masquerade astax-exempt nonprofits.”

Yet a review by The New York Continued on Page A22

HIRED GUNS HELPDE BLASIO SHAPE

CITY’S MESSAGE

CONSULTANTS HOLD SWAY

Fees Paid With Private

Money — Potential

Conflicts Seen

By BENJAMIN WEISER and SUSANNE CRAIG

In New York’s ornate Capitolbuilding in Albany, a plan twoyears in the making was takingroot. Everyone would benefit:Victims of mesothelioma, a rarebut deadly form of cancer causedby exposure to asbestos, wouldbe sent to a reputable law firm;the firm would pick up new cli-

ents; and a well-regarded cancerresearch clinic would receivefunds.

And at the center of all this wasSheldon Silver, then the State As-sembly speaker, prosecutors say.

The alleged arrangement,which has become the heart ofthe corruption case against Mr.Silver, came into focus at his trialon Wednesday, as Dr. Robert N.Taub of Columbia University tes-tified in federal court in Manhat-

tan as a government witness.Prosecutors charge that Mr. Sil-ver, a Democrat from the LowerEast Side, traded official actionsfor $3 million in an illegal kick-back scheme.

Dr. Taub, who testified under anonprosecution agreement, ran aclinic at Columbia dedicated tomesothelioma research. The clin-ic long relied on governmentgrants, wealthy donors and even

Doctor at Silver’s Trial Tells of Favors Traded

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Ending nearly a decade of dominanceby Canada’s Conservative Party, JustinTrudeau of the Liberal Party, above withhis son Hadrien and his mother, Marga-ret, was sworn in as prime minister, anoffice once held by his father. PAGE A10

INTERNATIONAL A4-14

Canada Swears In New Leader

Airbnb, fresh off an election victory inSan Francisco, is working to organizevoting blocs of home-sharers in the cit-ies where it operates. PAGE B1

BUSINESS DAY B1-11

Airbnb Flexes Political Muscle

The architect Jeanne Gang’s design, be-low, for the American Museum of Natu-ral History’s addition evokes Frank Geh-ry’s Bilbao museum and fills in someopen space on the grounds. PAGE C1

ARTS C1-8

Museum Expansion Unveiled

After taking his team to the World Se-ries, Terry Collins won a two-year con-tract extension. PAGE B13

SPORTSTHURSDAY B13-17

Mets’ Manager Is Rewarded

Dianne Feinstein PAGE A27

EDITORIAL, OP-ED A26-27

A persistent water leak is among prob-lems that have prevented the WestfieldWorld Trade Center mall, a luxury com-plex, from opening in time for the holi-day season. Building Blocks. PAGE A21

NEW YORK A21-25

Setback at Transit Hub

Opponents of an anti-discriminationmeasure in Houston found success byreframing the issue as a fight over bath-room safety. PAGE A17

NATIONAL A15-19

Houston Law Undone by Fears

The elder ex-president, in a biography,says Dick Cheney and Donald H. Rums-feld served his son poorly. PAGE A19

Bush Critical of Son’s Aides

The auction house barely exceeded itslow estimate in a sale of “Masterworks”pieces collected by the former chairmanA. Alfred Taubman. PAGE A23

Lackluster Night at Sotheby’s

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