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--Not expected: Fabregas, who hit .193 with no homers and eight RBI in 35 games with the Angels this season, said he was "surprised and shocked" to get traded from a pennant contender to a team 22 games out in the NL Central.
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"Obviously I'm disappointed to go from a team playing for first place to a team that isn't contending.
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"I felt like I was a big part of the team. I went through the struggles last year and I wanted to be a part of it in the good times."
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In addition to Ochoa, the Angels got minor-league catcher Sal Fasano.
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In return, the Brewers got backup catcher Jorge Fabregas and two players to be named later.
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In the past week, the Angels deemed outfield depth their biggest need, above adding a reliever to the bullpen.
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The Russian team of Yelena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze narrowly won the gold medal over the Canadians Jamie Sale and David Pelletier, who were later awarded a duplicate gold medal because of the ensuing judging controversy.
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Sale and Pelletier declined to comment on Wednesday.
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OLYMPIC JUDGING SCANDAL DEEPENS WITH ARREST OF RUSSIAN CRIME FIGURE
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The complaint casts the Salt Lake City figure skating scandal in a more serious light than the cronyism and vote-swapping that have tainted the increasingly troubled sport.
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Over the past four years, four judges have been suspended, including a Ukrainian who was taped by a Canadian judge detailing the order of finish for the ice dancers before the 1998 Winter Games in Nagano, Japan.
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The United States is seeking his extradition from Italy.
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The Italian authorities provided the FBI with information from wiretaps of Tokhtakhounov's home telephone, part of an investigation into his criminal activities.
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The FBI said explicit conversations about the scheme had been recorded between Tokhtakhounov and his conspirators, and between him and Anissina, who was born in Russia and skated for France, and her mother.
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The FBI cited a vivid conversation with Anissina's mother in which Tokhtakhounov assured her that even if her daughter "falls, we will make sure she is No. 1."
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"falls, we will make sure she is No. 1."
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After the Winter Olympics, a French judge, Marie-Reine Le Gougne, was suspended by the International Skating Union for not reporting pressure she said was put on her by Didier Gailhaguet, president of the French Skating Federation, to vote for the Russian pairs team.
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She later recanted and said that Canadian officials had pressured her.
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The ISU later suspended Le Gougne and Gailhaguet for three years.
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The federal complaint did not describe the possibility of a wider conspiracy or any contact between Tokhtakhounov, or his unnamed co-conspirators, with Le Gougne.
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A Russian accused of being in organized crime was arrested in Italy on Wednesday on an American complaint that he conspired to fix the pairs figure skating and ice dancing competitions at the recent Salt Lake Winter Olympics, which were dominated by the sport's judging scandals.
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"We have alleged no connection between this man with any officials other than with Russian federation officials,"
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"We have alleged no connection between this man with any officials other than with Russian federation officials," James B. Comey, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, said at a news conference.
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He said that Tokhtakhounov "reached out to a co-conspirator, somebody connected to the Russian Skating Federation, who did the legwork for him."
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"reached out to a co-conspirator, somebody connected to the Russian Skating Federation, who did the legwork for him."
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Maxwell Miller, Le Gougne's lawyer in Salt Lake City, said no evidence of organized crime influence came up in her suspension hearings before the ISU "I think this situation vindicates the argument that we've made all along," he said.
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"I think this situation vindicates the argument that we've made all along,"
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Tokhtakhounov, whose age was given by Comey as 53 or 62, is a "major figure in international Eurasian organized crime," Comey said.
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"major figure in international Eurasian organized crime,"
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Born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, and now a Russian citizen, he is known as Taivanchik, or Little Taiwanese, for his Central Asian ethnic background.
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He appears to have moved to France in 1989, according to news media reports, and is reported to have Israeli citizenship also.
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Comey said Tokhtakhounov had three residences in Italy: Forte dei Marmi, Rome and Milan.
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The complaint against Tokhtakhounov's traces his contact with figure skating to 2000, when he proposed to Gailhaguet the creation of a professional hockey team in Paris that would provide revenue for the French Skating Federation.
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( Gailhaguet and Anissina are not referred to by name in an accompanying FBI agent's affidavit, but by their descriptions their identities are obvious.
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)
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In return, Gailhaguet told the FBI on Feb. 23 as the Olympics were taking place, Tokhtakhounov asked for Gailhaguet's help in renewing his French visa, which was about to expire.
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But when Gailhaguet sought guidance from a French government official, he was told that "Tokhtakhounov's money is bad," the affidavit said.
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"Tokhtakhounov's money is bad,"
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The federal complaint offers many details of the alleged conspiracy, including excerpts from a transcript of the Italian wiretaps.
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On Feb. 5, the Italian wiretaps recorded Tokhtakhounov's request to someone identified as another Russian mobster to get the number of a Russian Skating Federation official.
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"is close to us -- he is a good guy, he will do it."
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Tokhtakhounov's action apparently came soon after he said he received a phone call from the mother of the female ice dancer, presumably Anissina.
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The Russian, Alimzhan Tokhtakhounov, who was arrested by the Italian authorities at his resort home in Forte dei Marmi, appeared to have a singular motivation for rigging the competitions: getting a visa to return to France, where he once lived.
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A week later, after Berezhnaya and Sikharulidze's pairs victory, the mobsters spoke again.
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The second mobster expressed satisfaction with the outcome of the competition and suggested that Tokhtakhounov could call the ice dancer's "mother or the father and tell them everything will be OK"
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"mother or the father and tell them everything will be OK"
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He appears to be referring to Anissina.
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The second mobster added, "Our Sikharulidze fell, the Canadians were 10 times better, and in spite of that the French with their vote gave us first place."
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"Everything is going the way you need it."
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They also discussed the coming judging in ice dancing, in which the French and the Italian teams were the favorites.
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The second mobster said the French pair had "only three judges," and of the two judges they needed to win the gold medal "one is ours, and the other our friends will give them."
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"only three judges,"
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Their concern for lining up more votes than they thought the Italian ice dancers had may stem from the Italian team's defeat of Anissina and Peizerat in the 2001 world championships.
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But they seemed pleased that the Russian pair's victory was achieved with the French judge's vote.
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"The French have nothing but the ice dancing," the second mobster said.
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Again, Tokhtakhounov voiced his need to have his French visa extended, and he said Anissina had tried to help him but Gailhaguet had thwarted her.
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Also on Feb. 12, a week before the ice dancing finals, Tokhtakhounov told Anissina's mother in a telephone call that the Russian federation official "had called me from America" to assure that "we are going to make" Anissina "an Olympic champion."
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"had called me from America"
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"we are going to make"
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"an Olympic champion."
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He told her that the Russian skating federation official "will help -- he has two or three judges."
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"will help -- he has two or three judges."
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On or about March 7, in a conversation between Tokhtakhounov and Anissina, she said she would have won the event without his assistance because the Russian judge did not vote for her and her partner.
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She also apologized for not calling to thank him earlier, but that Gailhaguet had forbidden her.
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"was involved with the results"
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He assured her that it was nonsense, but that Gailhaguet "knows my name very well -- he tried to help me, and later he made stuff up to scare you so you would not connect me to him even more."
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"knows my name very well -- he tried to help me, and later he made stuff up to scare you so you would not connect me to him even more."
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The conversations seem to indicate a familiarity between Tokhtakhounov and Anissina.
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Tass, the official Russian news agency, reported that Anissina attended a ceremony in 1999 at a Paris hotel honoring Tokhtakhounov for his philanthropy.
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The federal prosecutor in Manhattan alleged in a criminal complaint that Tokhtakhounov had conceived and directed a scheme with a second man alleged to be in the Russian mob and a member of the Russian Skating Federation to secure a gold medal for the top Russian pairs skaters and for the top French ice dancers, one of whom is a Russian.
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That Russian organized crime may have infiltrated international sport at the Olympics stunned Phyllis Howard, president of the U.S. Figure Skating Association.
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Lloyd Ward, chief executive officer of the U.S. Olympic Committee, said in a statement, "Competitors from all nations must be assured that they compete on a level playing field."
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"Competitors from all nations must be assured that they compete on a level playing field."
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It is spending more than $500 million a year on semiconductor research and development.
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The factory will produce a wide range of specialized semiconductors used in everything from the largest mainframe computers to cell phones and video-game consoles.
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The new plant is part of IBM's push to gain a strong lead in chip-making beyond the personal computer business, where Intel and East Asian chip producers hold the advantage.
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"The core of our strategy is to lead in technology and attack the high-performance segments of the market,"
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"The core of our strategy is to lead in technology and attack the high-performance segments of the market," said John Kelly, senior vice president in charge of IBM's technology group.
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IBM OPENS $2.5 BILLION CHIP PLANT IN UPSTATE NEW YORK
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An advantage to having the semiconductor fabricating factory here, Kelly explained, was that it was very close to its research laboratories in nearby Westchester County, N.Y. To stay ahead in advanced chip technology, he said, moving innovations out of the labs and into the factory as fast as possible is crucial.
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"What we call the lab-to-fab time should be as close to zero as possible,"
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"What we call the lab-to-fab time should be as close to zero as possible," Kelly said.
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"If our strategy were anything but to be on the leading edge, we'd have put the plant in Asia."
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The new factory, which will begin normal production early next year, will employ about 1,000 people.
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In a brief speech, Samuel J. Palmisano, IBM's chief executive, emphasized that it was important to make long-term investments despite the current slump in the technology business.
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"To play to win in technology, you innovate and you lead,"
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But manufacturing technology products is a costly and cyclical business.
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In June, IBM announced that it was taking a charge of more than $2 billion against earnings.
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EAST FISHKILL, N.Y. -- IBM opened a sprawling and sophisticated semiconductor factory here on Wednesday that cost more than $2.5 billion to build and equip, the largest single capital investment the company has ever made.
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But Kelly said the demand for advanced chips, like those produced at IBM's facility in Burlington, Vt., is strong.
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"I need more capacity in that end of the market,"
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"I need more capacity in that end of the market," he said, "and this is factory is critical to meeting that growing demand."
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If IBM has miscalculated the demand, it will suffer badly as both the high operating costs and depreciation on the huge capital investment for the East Fishkill factory drag down earnings.
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But industry analysts said the plant should be insulated from a falloff in one or a few segments of the semiconductor market.
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The factory is highly automated and designed to shift flexibly to produce many different kinds of chips to suit demand.
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"The diversity is the big difference with this plant,"
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The 140,000-square-foot plant is a testament to advanced manufacturing technology.
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The 300-millimeter silicon wafers -- about the size of a standard pizza -- are shuttled around the facility in enclosed plastic pods, which ride on overhead tracks.
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They drop down from wires automatically into machines, sheathed in stainless steel and glass, for each stage of processing and fabrication.
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Throughout the 500 processing steps, which typically last 20 days, the wafers are not touched by human hands.
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