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Rescue highlights importance of bystander CPR

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gave him a pulse.

We did what we needed to do; we
all worked well together like a welloiled machine, McDermott-Grubb
said. My 212-year-old daughter puts
it very simplistically: Mommy and
her friends help people. Im always
prepared, whether on or off duty.
The man, who is from New Castle,
arrived alive at UPMC Presbyterian
11 minutes after he collapsed. He is
in stable condition and expected to
recover, public safety spokeswoman
Sonya Toler said.
The two race-running paramedics accompanied the patient in an

Site shut
down by
agents
in city
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charged worldwide in a July 2015

takedown of Darkode, an online
forum where criminals met to buy
and sell credit card and other personal information, to trade viruses
and malware, and sometimes to sell
narcotics.
Assistant U.S. Attorney James
Kitchen and two FBI agents based
in Pittsburgh led the international
investigation, which started with
an unnamed industry partner asking the FBI for help, agents said
when the investigation became
public.
About a year later, in January
2015, Kitchen and the FBI agents
traveled to the Hague in the Netherlands to meet with prosecutors and
police officers from 20 countries.
They had two more meetings
at the Europol offices to coordinate their efforts over the next six
months. Then, in July 2015, they
started making arrests and disabling Darkode.
The suspects ranged from career
criminals to college students trying
to raise tuition money and computer experts moonlighting.
Green had joined Darkode in
2006. During the next six years, he
conspired with others to infect
computers and create the botnet
they sold, Kitchen said.
This went on for a while until I
realized that I did not want to live
that life anymore and the potential
I had to use my talents to build a
legal, profitable business, Green
said in his letter to
the judge.
By the time FBI
agents showed up
at his home, Green
had withdrawn
from Darkode and
was building that
Green: I loved business, Roark
said.
how everyone
Hes a good faon the Internet
ther. Hes become a
looked up to
me because of good businessman.
Hes a good memall the things I
ber of our commucould do.
nity, said Roark,
whose law office is in Paducah.
Green volunteers his time to help
other small businesses.
While pointing out the severity of
Greens crime, Kitchen confirmed
Green has apparently turned his
life around.
I have no reason to quarrel with
anything Mr. Green or his attorney
has said, he told the judge. Green
immediately cooperated with investigators, he said.
Anecdotally, there are plenty of
examples of people who commit
cybercrimes in their youth who
go on to become law-abiding citizens and even computer security
experts, said Brian Nussbaum, a
former security intelligence analyst who teaches computer security
at State University of New York at
Albany.
It has historically not been
unusual for youthful indiscretions
at the keyboard to lay the technical and intellectual foundations
for careers in information technology and information security,
Nussbaum said.
How often that occurs, however,
is an open question, he said.
While many criminal justice researchers focus on criminal behavior and how it changes over a
persons lifetime, there has been
very little research applying this
approach to cyber criminals, Nussbaum said. This is at least, in part,
because the field of studying cyber
criminality is much less mature
than the broader field of studying
criminality.
Brian Bowling is a Tribune-Review staff writer.
Reach him at 412-325-4301
or bbowling@tribweb.com.

ambulance down Fifth Avenue to the

hospital. Then they finished the race,
We helped with the transfer
while bypassing a few blocks.
We helped with the transfer of
of care, then I looked at John
care, then I looked at John and said,
Hey, are you ready to go finish this and said, Hey, are you ready
thing? she said. He said, Yep,
to go finish this thing? He
cmon kid. So, we walked down the
driveway, then down Lothrop and
said, Yep, cmon kid.
continued.
Bonasso, a 36-year EMS veteran,
JENNIFER MCDERMOTT-GRUBB
said the rescue highlights the im- PARAMEDIC HELPED SAVE MAN DURING GREAT RACE
portance of bystander CPR. In this
case, Dombrowski happened to be
the bystander.
His CPR wasnt any better than Bonasso said. I would hazard to say
the publics CPR; it was just some- this persons outcome would not
body taking the initiative to do CPR, have been the same had somebody

not been there to immediately provide CPR. If somebody can get there
quickly, the chances of having a good
outcome are higher.
McDermott-Grubb concurred.
Were trained to do the advanced
techniques, the medications, the IVs,
the advanced airways and everything like that, she said. But it all
boils down to good effective CPR.
People dont understand how important bystander CPR is in getting the
process started before we arrive.
Dombrowski, described by colleagues as humble, declined to be
interviewed for this story. His finish
time was 1 hour and 37 minutes.
If they would have found some-

Few crown Trump victor

ELECTION FROM A1

courting, especially moderate

white women.
I look back as a former practitioner and say, Is there anything
Donald Trump did to convince
somebody who wasnt in his column to be for him? said David
Plouffe, President Obamas former campaign manager. I have a
hard time thinking theres many
of those people. I dont think he
lost anybody. But thats not his
challenge now. Hes got to add.
Clinton was ebullient as she
returned to the campaign trail
Tuesday in Raleigh and strove
to keep alive the controversies
that marred Trumps debate performance.
The real point is about temperament and fitness and qualification to hold the most important, hardest job in the world,
and I think people saw last night
some very clear differences between us, Clinton said aboard
her campaign plane en route to
North Carolina.
Trump did little to change the
subject. In a morning interview
on Fox News Channel, Trump
said debate moderator Lester
Holt, the anchor of NBC Nightly
News, was biased, and the Republican complained about the
quality of his microphone. Clinton jabbed him for that, telling
reporters, Anybody who complains about the microphone is
not having a good night.
Trump disparaged a former
Miss Universe pageant winner,
Alicia Machado, for her physique. In the debate, Clinton
raised Trumps past comments
about the Venezuela-born woman, who was crowned Miss Universe at age 19 in 1996.
He called this woman Miss
Piggy, and then, he called her
Miss Housekeeping, because
she is Latina, Clinton said in
one of the debates more electric
exchanges.
The next morning, Trump offered an indignant defense of
how he dealt with Machado when
he was a partner in the company
that owned the Miss Universe
contest.
She was the worst we ever

body else that needed help, Im sure

John and Jen would have stopped
and helped that person, too, Bonasso
said. Thats just the way that we are.
Coincidentally, McDermott-Grubb,
a 12-year veteran, was recently promoted from crew chief to district
chief. She began her new position
Tuesday.
These outcomes are just a gentle
reminder of why were here to
make a difference in somebodys life,
she said. Thats why we went into
this profession. Its a great feeling.

Ben Schmitt is a Tribune-Review staff writer.

Reach him at 412-320-7991
or bschmitt@tribweb.com.

84 million: Debate
sets a record for views
The first presidential debate of 2016
drew slightly more than 84 million
television viewers, a record audience
for a political event.
Viewing of Mondays showdown
between Democratic nominee Hillary
Clinton and Republican nominee
Donald Trump exceeded the 80.6
million who watched the 1980 debate
between President Jimmy Carter and
challenger Ronald Reagan, according
to an estimate from the Nielsen rating service.
The figure of 84.01 million doesnt
include several million people who
watched live streams on Facebook,
Twitter, YouTube and other sites.

Trump reports $18M

post-debate fundraising haul
REUTERS

Head cook Fabian Martinez displays pizzas decorated with the

images of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump at Giordanos Pizzeria
on Tuesday in Chicago.
had, he said on Fox, adding:
She gained a massive amount of
weight, and it was a real problem.
The Clinton campaign sought
to advance the story across
media platforms, releasing a web
video featuring the beauty queenturned-actor, a U.S. citizen who
lives in California, and arranging
a conference call for reporters
with Machado, who described the
election as like a bad dream.
Like Trumps feud this summer with the Muslim parents of a
dead American soldier, the Machado episode rapidly emerged as
a microcosm of the campaign
and a test of whether Trump can
expand his support beyond his
base of aggrieved white voters,
most of them men.

Oh, crap moment

Mike Murphy, a veteran Republican strategist who has been

critical of the partys nominee,
said Trumps comments about
Machado were hugely tone
deaf. The debate overall, he
said, was for many Republicans
an Oh, crap moment. If you
thought he had a spring in his
step for the last few weeks and
was getting back in the hunt,
thats pretty much gone.
Few of Trumps supporters
went so far as to crown him the vic-

tor. House Speaker Paul D. Ryan,

R-Wis., who has been a weather
vane for the Republican leadership during this election season,
was supportive though muted at a
news conference. He said Trump
gave a unique, Donald Trump
response to the status quo.
I think he gave a spirited argument, Ryan said, and I think he
passed a number of thresholds.
Trumps backers insisted that
the debate would not damage
his standing in the close race
with Clinton. Rep. Peter T. King,
R-N.Y., said, As far as the temperament, thats how hes been
for the last 15 months. It got him
to the top. He does have the feistiness that I think 51 percent of the
American people will like.
William J. Bennett, who served
in former President Ronald Reagans Cabinet, said of Trump:
When he loses his temper a
little bit, many people see that
as passion and as someone whos
engaged in the fight and in what
he believes. People forgive that
and a leopard cant change
his spots.
It will take several days before
the political impact of Mondays
debate becomes clear, but many
Republicans said they were bracing for Clinton to get a bump in
the polls.

Republican presidential nominee

Donald Trump told supporters Tuesday that his campaign had raised
nearly $18 million since Monday
nights debate against Democratic
nominee Hillary Clinton.
Earlier, Trump had tweeted that
he had raised nearly $13 million in
the previous 24 hours through online
donations and National Call Day, a
challenge for top fundraisers rewarded for pulling in at least $250,000.
Were still going! Thank you
America! #MAGA (Make America
Great Again), Trump said in the tweet.
He announced the updated figure at an
airport rally in Melbourne, Fla.
Most polls have Trump and Hillary
Clinton virtually tied, with less than
six weeks before Election Day.

FBI probes hacks targeting

phones of Dem Party officials
The FBI is investigating suspected
attempts to hack mobile phones used
by Democratic Party officials as recently as the past month, four people
with direct knowledge of the attack
and the investigation told Reuters.
The revelation underscores the
widening scope of the U.S. criminal
inquiry into cyber attacks on Democratic Party organizations, including the presidential campaign of its
candidate, former Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton.
Officials have said they believe
those attacks were orchestrated by
hackers backed by the Russian government.
Wire reports

Complaints werent Some call for change in leadership

reported, lawsuit says
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Bracken, the womans lawyer.

In contrast, when teacher Jason Cooper was
accused of having sex with a student, the district
promptly involved police, Bracken said.
With Cooper, they moved swiftly, he said. With
Ruggieri, they sought to protect their friend.
Cooper, 39, is serving 18 to 36 months in prison.
Ruggieri is serving 2 to 5 years in prison.
The woman is suing the school district, Kociela,
Glasspool, Kost and Plum Borough.
Lee Price, the districts solicitor, declined to
comment.
Kociela regularly sought Ruggieris advice on
school policy, interacted with him more than he did
with any other teacher in the district, and the two socialized at Kocielas home, the lawsuit says. Ruggieri
wrote a letter of recommendation for Kocielas wife
when she applied for a fellowship, the lawsuit says.
Given their close relationship, Kociela should
have referred the allegations against Ruggieri to an
impartial party instead of handling them himself,
the lawsuit contends.
The result was that internal investigations were
stifled, and complaints about sexual assaults on
students werent reported to police, the suit alleges.
The womans lawsuit also names another teacher
as a defendant: Drew Zoldak, for a classroom incident in which she claims Zoldak, 41, said he missed
a previous class because he was being interviewed
by police because of her and gestured toward
the victim. Zoldak denied the claim; an Allegheny
County jury in June acquitted him on a witness
intimidation charge.
The plaintiff claims the district, borough and
school officials violated several of her constitutional rights. She is seeking compensatory and
punitive damages, but also wants the district to
acknowledge what happened, Bracken said.
Brian Bowling is a Tribune-Review staff writer.

jury detailed years of suspicion and rumor surrounding

teacher Joseph Ruggieri and
a perceived lack of action
by school administrators, including Glasspool and Principal Ryan Kociela.
Michael Levin, head of
the Levin Legal Group, said
Tuesday that Plum administrators did take action when
rumors of inappropriate contact surfaced.
There was action taken,
he said. There were investigations conducted. There
were evidenciary prohibitions that precluded taking
follow-up action against the
alleged perpetrators.
Board members Vicky
Roessler, Sue Caldwell and
Steve Schlauch voted against
Glasspools reinstatement.
Board President Kevin
Dowdell, Vice President
Richard Zucco, Jim Rogers
and Sal Colella voted in favor.
Members Michele Gallagher and Michelle Stepnick
were absent.
Bringing (Glasspool) back
is giving him a pass and
saying that what went on
for years was acceptable. It
wasnt, Schlauch said.
He called for a change in
leadership.
Zucco spoke in support of
Glasspool, noting that the
grand jury did not indict him.
He said he believes Glasspool
has integrity. Audience mem-

bers shouted him down, asking if he thought his granddaughter would be safe in the
school. He said, yes.
The board did not cast any
vote regarding Kociela, who
has been on paid administrative leave since May 22.
The board initially gave
Glasspool, who earns $142,600,
the option of taking leave or
being placed on leave. He was
placed on leave May 27.
The school board ordered
the Levin investigation
shortly after the release of
the Allegheny County Grand
Jury report.
Teachers Jason Cooper and
Ruggieri had been arrested
in February 2015, each accused of having sex with different female students. The
grand jury concluded that
Ruggieri had at least six victims over the years.
Levin gave a 90-minute presentation at Tuesdays school
board meeting, outlining the
terms and limitations of the
investigation and warning
audience members as to what
they would and would not
hear in the report.
He noted that the Allegheny
County District Attorneys Office was under no obligation
to provide his firm with the
evidence to which the grand
jury had access, and the office
did not provide it. He said the
school does not have subpoena
power and thus could not compel anyone to testify.
He said he found no evi-

dence that school employees

were encouraged to protect
friends and colleagues over
students, which the grand
jury surmised. He said former School Resource Officer
Mark Kost was made aware
of the rumors immediately and was involved in the
school districts investigation from the beginning
contrary to what the grand
jury reported. The grand
jury said district officials
failed to involve police in a
timely manner.
Parents in the audience expressed outrage.
Karin Acquaviva, a Plum
parent, accused the board of
standing by immoral men.
You have chosen to stand
by men found to be guilty
not criminally guilty, but morally guilty, Acquaviva said.
We send (our children) off
to school and pray to God that
they are taken care of. These
menchosetoneglecttheirduty.
I have zero trust in these men
and, truthfully, in this board.
Acquaviva said the decision to reinstate Glasspool
broke her heart. All theyve
done is ruined this community, she said.
At times, you looked disgusted up there, Anthony
Massarelli said to the board.
How do you think we, the
parents, feel after these years
of going through this?
Megan Guza and Michael DiVittorio are
Tribune-Review staff writers.