With Fed independence in crosshairs, will Supreme Court back Trump again?

By Jan Wolfe

WASHINGTON, Dec 13 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court's conservative justices appear ready to endorse President Donald Trump's power to fire a regulatory agency official despite job protections given by Congress. But they have signaled reluctance to give him similar authority over the Federal Reserve in a major case set to be argued next month.

The court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority, in May cited what it called the U.S. central bank's unique ​qualities that distinguish it from other agencies also created by Congress to be independent of direct presidential control. But Trump nevertheless moved to fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook in August, setting in motion a major legal battle over presidential ‌powers that imperils the Fed's longstanding independence.

Trump's targeting of Cook represents one of numerous ways he has tested the limits of presidential power since returning to office in January. The Supreme Court has let his actions take effect on removing various other agency officials as well as on immigration policy, federal layoffs, foreign aid cuts, ‌rolling back transgender rights and other matters.

Arguments are scheduled for January 21 over the legality of Trump's attempt to remove Cook.

ARGUMENTS IN THE SLAUGHTER CASE

The court heard arguments on December 8 involving Trump's March firing of Rebecca Slaughter, a Democratic member of the Federal Trade Commission who sued to challenge the Republican president's action. The conservative justices indicated through their questions that they are poised to rule that Trump did not overstep his authority.

The court in September allowed Trump to remove Slaughter while her legal challenge played out. The following month it left Cook in her post while agreeing to hear arguments in that case.

Based on the arguments in the Slaughter case, the conservative justices seem poised to strike down a 1914 law passed by Congress under which FTC commissioners can be removed by a president only for "inefficiency, neglect of duty or malfeasance," not ⁠policy differences. Such a ruling could empower presidents to fire the heads of other agencies that ‌Congress sought to make independent, overturning a 1935 Supreme Court precedent in the process.

The 1913 law passed by Congress creating the Fed provided similar tenure protections, and the justices appear to be worried about creating a new legal framework that would let presidents remove Fed officials over mere policy differences. Lawmakers and economists in both parties have long viewed Fed independence as crucial to preventing monetary policy decisions like setting ‍interest rates from being subject to political whims.

Cook was appointed by Democratic former President Joe Biden. In announcing his decision to fire her, Trump said he was doing so for cause, accusing her of mortgage fraud before taking office, an allegation that Cook denied and called a pretext to oust her for her monetary policy stance.

In an earlier case, the Supreme Court in May allowed Trump's firing of a member of the National Labor Relations Board to take effect. But in its order doing so, the court said the action should not be interpreted as granting the president similar power to ​remove Fed officials.

"The Federal Reserve is a uniquely structured, quasi-private entity that follows in the distinct historical tradition of the First and Second Banks of the United States," the order stated, referring to two iterations of a U.S. central bank early in the ‌nation's history.

Justice Brett Kavanaugh, a conservative who has long sought to rein in federal agencies, has suggested in the past that the Fed enjoys a special status within the government.

In a 2009 law review article that Kavanaugh wrote while serving on a regional federal appeals court, he asserted that "in some situations it may be worthwhile to insulate particular agencies from direct presidential oversight or control - the Federal Reserve Board may be one example, due to its power to directly affect the short-term functioning of the U.S. economy by setting interest rates and adjusting the money supply."

'THE CHOPPING BLOCK'

During the arguments in the Slaughter case, her lawyer said the Trump administration's legal theories would put Fed independence "on the chopping block." Kavanaugh repeatedly asked U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer about that.

"The other side says that your position would undermine the independence of the Federal Reserve and they have concerns about that, and I share those concerns," Kavanaugh told Sauer, who argued for Trump's administration.

Sauer responded that the Fed is unique, quoting the court's May order. Sauer added that Trump's administration is not currently challenging ⁠the tenure protections for Fed officials, with Trump contending the Cook firing was for cause.

In the Slaughter case, on the other hand, Trump did not ​claim to have cause to fire her, instead saying she did not align with his political agenda. Because of these factual distinctions, the two cases raise ​different legal issues.

"The court clearly sees the Fed as special," said Peter Margulies, a law professor at Roger Williams University in Rhode Island. "I think the court is convinced that an independent Federal Reserve is crucial to a workable government."

"There is a longstanding tradition of regulation of the public debt that goes back to the founding (of the United States), and I think the court appreciates that," Margulies added. "The appeal to history and tradition means ‍a lot to this court."

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce pro-business lobbying group ⁠argued in a legal brief that the Fed is different than other independent agencies, so a ruling favoring Trump in the Slaughter case need not threaten central bank independence.

The Chamber of Commerce argued that there is a long history of U.S. monetary policy being set by commissions that operate outside of presidential control like the Sinking Fund Commission, a body created by Congress in 1790 to manage and repay the nation's Revolutionary War debt.

For this reason, the group argued, the authors of ⁠the Constitution would not have objected to Fed independence.

Some legal experts have said this view distorts the Fed's history and structure.

Andrea Katz, a professor at Washington University School of Law in St. Louis, said the court's eventual ruling in the Slaughter case likely will create an exception for the Fed. But Katz said the ‌justices have not articulated a principled legal rationale for doing so.

"As a historical matter, the so-called 'Fed carve-out' is intellectually indefensible," Katz said. "The Federal Reserve System is run by a board that, in practice, looks just like any ‌other multi-member commission."

"A preference for Fed independence is somehow assumed by Kavanaugh," Katz said, "but not explained."

(Reporting by Jan Wolfe; Editing by Will Dunham)

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Exclusive look inside ICE: How the agency operates in Trump's America

Second of two stories looking at the role of ICE in the changing landscape of immigration enforcement.

KANSAS CITY, Missouri ‒ Inside an ICE headquarters in a suburban office park hangs a printed text-message that immigration officers feel is aimed at them: "Get a gun and shoot them in the streets."

It's tacked on a cubicle wall that dozens of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents pass by daily. The screenshot message also declares, "This is a war."

In response, an ICE agent wrote on the printout in all caps: "BE VIGILANT!!"

For ICE Supervisory Detention and Deportation Officer Keone Feliciano, the note is an unavoidable reminder of the danger he and his colleagues face amidst rapidly increasing anger over the Trump administration's aggressive approach to immigration enforcement.

Behind the scenes of an ICE immigration arrest

Across the country, Feliciano and other longtime ICE officers accustomed to operating below the radar have been thrust into the spotlight by Trump's orders to conduct the largest mass deportation in history.

For many, it's an uncomfortable position as they work to balance their self-image as patriotic, law-and-order Americans with the perception that they have suddenly become, in the words of one ICE officer, "the bad guys."

In response to Trump's orders, the deployment of masked federal agents across American communities has spawned sometimes violent backlash including shootings, attacks on ICE facilities and vehicle rammings

Protesters, the vast majority peaceful, say agents are crossing dangerous lines for American society, smashing car windows, chasing workers through restaurants and targeting people for detention seemingly at random.

To report on the perspective of both sides, USA TODAY journalists spent several days this November in Kansas City, accompanying ICE officers as they detained suspects, collected detainees from local jails, and loaded others onto a charter flight to Texas for eventual deportation.

We also spoke with Kansas City-area migrant advocates and local elected officials who say the expanded immigration enforcement is tearing communities apart, turning neighbor against neighbor and sparking heated confrontations over the tactics now being deployed.

On a cool November morning, Feliciano, an 11-year veteran of the department, raced his Dodge truck through the pre-dawn darkness to join his team as they arrested a previously deported Venezuelan man convicted of sex crimes.

Feliciano's white pickup was fresh from the repair shop after protesters tailed and rammed him on a busy street in Chicago amidst the controversial Operation Midway Blitz, during which Border Patrol agents fired tear gas at protesters after being confronted by angry crowds.

He helped chain and load the Venezuelan man into the back of an unmarked ICE vehicle. Then, Feliciano urged his officers to get off the streets quickly.

"The longer we're out here, the more attention it's going to draw," he said. "Some people just like to drive by and be looky-loos, but some people could have hostile intentions. We just want to keep everybody safe and get out of here."

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'Pendulum swings' of enforcement strategies

Feliciano, a Navy veteran and former local police officer, said the pendulum swings between different presidential administrations have sometimes interfered with the reason he got into immigration enforcement: to remove criminals from American communities.

He said he's particularly proud whenever his team can deport convicted sex offenders, who he believes pose a significant public risk even after serving a criminal sentence.

There was a time under PresidentJoe Biden, when, "if we weren't able to immediately effect a removal, we were being ordered to just release them," Feliciano said. "Which is why we have now such a huge backlog of aliens just floating in the country with pending cases that have gone nowhere.

"Now we have an administration that's saying, 'Stop releasing them. Put them back in custody,'" he said.

The Venezuelan man Feliciano's team arrested in November had previously been deported from the United States following a statutory rape conviction. He reentered illegally; when he got arrested, he requested asylum, saying he feared returning to Venezuela.

A judge ruled the man could be deported to a third country like Mexico, ordered him fitted with a GPS tracker and released him back into the community, according to ICE officials. Re-entry after deportation is a felony, but making an asylum claim, especially during the Biden years, could qualify some people to remain free while their cases were pending.

Feliciano's team decided to detain the man after his GPS tracker detected tampering. It could have been a false alarm but potentially indicated the man had tried to remove it.

After staking out the man's house for several days, the team waited until he left for work early one morning before stopping his Honda Pilot near an empty intersection, blocking him in with multiple vehicles. Agents prefer traffic stops to entering homes for safety reasons.

The man surrendered immediately and was shackled. At his request, an officer drove his car back to his nearby house.

Growing tensions between ICE and advocates

Back at the ICE office in Kansas City, longtime officers sit next to fresh-faced recruits brought on under Trump's rapid agency expansion. Under the "One Big Beautiful Bill" passed by Congress this summer, federal immigration agencies have been ordered to hire 18,500 new agents and support staff – roughly doubling the force.

Nationally, these new federal agents, often from Customs and Border Protection, have orders to pursue undocumented immigrants whether they have criminal convictions or not.

Like other hardline immigration enforcers, Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino has suggested that prior presidential administrations broke faith with the American public by failing to properly restrict illegal immigration.

"We will not allow criminal illegal aliens to take over American communities. We will continue to track down illegal aliens in Los Angeles, Chicago, or any other city we choose," Bovino said in a Nov. 15social media post. "That is the way THIS team operates."

This more combative approach took shape in Kansas City in late July when ICE officers swarmed into two popular Mexican restaurants in the western and southern suburbs, detaining about a dozen workers.

ICE had a criminal federal search warrant, signed by a judge, to search the premises as part of an ongoing investigation, officials said. Under the Trump administration priorities, ICE officials say they are under orders to question suspected undocumented immigrants whenever they encounter them.

As the raids unfolded, dozens of migrant-rights activists and community members surrounded the restaurants, screaming at federal agents and officers and damaging one of their vehicles. While protesters portrayed the raids as unwarranted and immoral, ICE officials consider the protests ill-informed activism.

ICE has still not explained specifically what officers were looking for during the raids, but note the restaurants had previously been under investigation for wage theft during the Biden administration. Activists say ICE's refusal to explain why the two restaurants were targeted for immigration enforcement is contributing to a lack of trust.

"We are feeling scared and worried but in a strange way we feel more empowered to speak up for our community. We feel this commitment to defend our people," said Melanie Arroyo, a member of the suburban Lenexa City Council, across the state line in Kansas.

Around Kansas City, community activists are handing out fliers advising people of their constitutional rights, including their right to remain silent, to not open the door to agents without seeing a warrant, and to film interactions from a safe distance.

The "pendulum swings" in immigration enforcement are spilling into local politics, too.

Arroyo's own citizenship was briefly investigated by state and local police after one of her constituents misunderstood legislative testimony she had given.

At first she thought it was amusing that someone had questioned her citizenship – until she realized neighbors were demanding to see her papers although she was an American citizen.

"This is a scary pattern and people need to wake up and recognize that we can't just be compliant. Because this is not OK," Arroyo said.

Accountability has deteriorated amidst the hiring spree and tougher enforcement environment, said Genevra Alberti, a longtime Kansas City immigration attorney. In recent months she's found the Kansas City ICE office less responsive to her inquiries about her clients and detention officers less cooperative when it comes to her concerns about overcrowded cells or health issues.

"There have always been officers here who I could tell enjoyed what they were doing, and for them, this is great," she said. "They get to do what they've always wanted to do."

Kansas state Rep. Susan Ruiz, a Democrat who represents suburban Kansas City, said the new harsher approach is rupturing the trust built between local police and immigrant communities, who have long been encouraged to report crimes against them even if they're living illegally in the United States.

"It has come to the point where no one is trusting each other. People are not out in the community like they normally would be. That means they're not shopping. They're not going to school. It's affecting our entire way of life because you don't know who to trust. Can you trust your neighbor?" Ruiz said.

'We're just enforcing the laws as written'

Feliciano and his team say they're using appropriate levels of force at a time when an increasing number of immigrants know that getting detained means they'll get deported.

Under past presidential administrations, undocumented immigrants were often allowed to remain free on bond or on GPS monitoring while their cases played out.

But the Trump White House has essentially ordered detention without bond until their case is decided for anyone livingwithout legal status in the United States. Others are being deported to third countries.

In the face of this shift, immigrants are feeling more desperate and are more likely to resist arrest, Feliciano said ‒ raising the danger for everyone involved.

"The detention space hasn't changed much but we're able to get people through the system faster," Feliciano said."We're getting people out of the country very, very quickly."

That means undocumented immigrants stopped for routine traffic violations are now increasingly running away or refusing to cooperate with local police or ICE agents.

For longtime agents like Feliciano, this shift means being prepared for violence both from the person they're stopping and from community members angered by the White House orders.  Hence the printout tacked to the cubicle wall.

Feliciano said the threat of violence from community members won't dissuade his Kansas City team from following their orders. He takes pride in the work his agents do targeting criminal offenders through surveillance and documentation.

Later in the week as he navigated his pickup to the Kansas City airport to oversee a deportation flight, Feliciano listed off all the ways detainees have their chance to plead their case in court, appeal the decisions and request asylum.

He said ICE officers like him are going to keep arresting people who pose a danger to the public, working as ordered by the White House, despite the concerns of what he called "social justice warriors" protesting in Chicago and other cities.

On the airport tarmac, Feliciano watched as members of his team frisked and chained detainees before they were loaded onto a charter flight headed to a centralized deportation facility in Texas. His phone rang; one of his other officers was calling to discuss details of ongoing surveillance for their next targeted arrest.

"We're not the feelings police. We're the law police," he said. "And we're just enforcing the laws as they're written."

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'Pins on a Map': How Chicago students are tracking ICE raids

By P.J. Huffstutter

CHICAGO, Dec 13 (Reuters) - The windowless newsroom of The Phoenix, the Loyola University Chicago newspaper, hums like an old refrigerator. A coffee pot burbles in the corner as juniors Julia Pentasuglio and Ella Daugherty lean over a glowing laptop, updating a Google map.

Each red pin marks a sighting of federal immigration agents near campus and the surrounding neighborhoods.

Nearby, editor-in-chief Lilli Malone scrolls through reports from Rogers Park, a neighborhood along ​Chicago's lakefront where 80 languages mix. There were new pins from seven sightings that day alone - reports of vans barreling down side streets, masked immigration officers drawing guns, students watching from on-campus dorm windows as neighbors were taken away.

The ‌young student journalists normally cover dorm-room Thanksgiving recipes and local Christmas tree lightings, but find themselves with a new role under Donald Trump's presidency: documenting immigration raids. Their goal: counter online rumor with facts and give locals a map of frequently targeted areas as panic spread in recent months over who might be ‌picked up by immigration agents next.

Student and veteran journalists say that college newsrooms, independent media and legacy outlets across Chicago are now working together in ways that upend decades of cutthroat competition, building tools to track enforcement and collaborating on information.

Since Trump's return to the White House, his administration has ordered aggressive immigration sweeps in cities with large foreign-born communities, including Chicago, to make good on a campaign promise to deport people living in the U.S. illegally.

TRANSLATING RUMOR INTO FACT

Weeks after Loyola students began classes this fall, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security launched its Operation Midway Blitz in Chicago in early September, deploying Border Patrol agents armed with high-powered weapons and tear gas.

Local officials objected, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker called the blitz "unlawful and unwarranted" and a new state law now allows Illinois residents to sue federal immigration agents if ⁠they believe their civil rights have been violated.

DHS said it is targeting violent criminals putting ‌Americans at risk, and that it has arrested more than 4,300 people as part of the operation.

"Our efforts remain ongoing, we aren't leaving Chicago," a DHS spokesperson said in a statement.

Fear had already been building on campus before the operation started. A man from the U.S. Census Bureau walked into a dorm months earlier, Malone and Pentasuglio said, prompting false rumors that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement had ‍arrived. Students flooded The Phoenix staff with questions about whether the rumors were true.

Some had reason to be worried. Loyola has long welcomed immigrants without legal status in the U.S., including Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals students who came to the U.S. as children, particularly in its medical school — a point of pride at a Jesuit university built on a mission of social justice.

"People were scared, and they needed someone to verify what was real," Malone said.

Loyola University officials did not respond to requests for comment.

So in early October, Malone and Pentasuglio, The Phoenix's managing editor, opened a ​blank Google Map and began dropping pins — each confirmed through photos, timestamped videos or multiple witnesses, they said.

The pins gave students and nearby residents a place to check rumor against fact — to see which sightings had been verified, and to understand where ‌agents had clustered in recent days so they could better gauge which areas might carry risk.

Notes are attached to each pin - October 12: Multiple armed agents were spotted at the 1200 block of West North Shore Avenue midday. October 21: An arrest was reported at the North Lincoln Avenue Home Depot at 9:58 a.m.

A DHS spokesperson confirmed to Reuters that U.S. Border Patrol conducted enforcement operations and made arrests at these locations on those dates.

At the University of Chicago, deputy editor-in-chief Elena Eisenstadt says the college newspaper, The Maroon, built its Datawrapper tracker after reports lit up on social media outlets like Sidechat, a student app where users can chat anonymously.

"It felt like a wave," she said. "When everyone is talking about something like that, you have to do something."

At DePaul University, the managing editor of the DePaulia campus newspaper, Jake Cox, and other staff leaned on the social media accounts of students and others for tips when ICE's presence near its Lincoln Park campus spiked.

At the Block Club Chicago nonprofit news group where he interns, Cox built ⁠an ICE WhatsApp channel — a platform widely used by immigrant Chicagoans - where nearly 3,200 followers receive a steady stream of immigration stories, agent sightings ​and "Know Your Rights" links.

SOME JOURNALISTS PRIORITIZE COLLABORATION

The students are joining a broader wave of local mobilization against ICE across Chicago that has included cyclists trailing unmarked ​vans through alleys, parents forming checkpoints outside elementary schools and Pilates students shouting at agents pulling people into SUVs while neighbors film.

For months, local reporters covering immigration enforcement in Chicago have also been sharing story leads, safety tips and source contacts with competitors through encrypted communication systems, said Maira Khwaja, public impact strategy director at the Invisible Institute, an independent, local journalism nonprofit.

The story has become too big, she said, ‍and there are simply too few journalists to cover it. "More of us ⁠is better."

At The Phoenix, when staff get a tip outside their coverage area, they said they help get the information to other papers.

At the city's biggest newspaper, the Chicago Tribune, senior editor Erika Slife says she grew up in the old scoop culture but that the current journalistic landscape has sometimes led to collaboration across outlets.

For example, after U.S. Border Patrol commander-at-large Gregory Bovino left Chicago on November 13 and headed for Charlotte, North Carolina, reporters from The Charlotte ⁠Observer newspaper contacted Tribune staff the next day for insight and what to expect, said Tribune investigative reporter Gregory Royal Pratt.

Pratt and several co-workers quickly got onto a video conference call with the North Carolina reporters, he said, and shared what worked for them - from lining up safety equipment, to following helicopter traffic ‌and vetting government information for accuracy.

"It still feels good to be first," said Slife, who leads the paper's immigration coverage. Now she tells her reporters, "it's more important to be right. We may not always be first, ‌but we'll do it best."

(Reporting by P.J. Huffstutter in Chicago. Additional reporting by Ted Hesson in Washington, D.C., editing by Deepa Babington)

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Connor Bedard injury update: Blackhawks star hurt in 'freak accident'

Chicago Blackhawksstar Connor Bedard skated off the ice in obvious pain after suffering an injury on the final play of Friday's game against theSt. Louis Blues.

The injury occurred when Bedard, the top pick in the 2023 NHL Draft, took an offensive zone faceoff against Blues captain Brayden Schenn with less than a second on the clock and the Blues leading 3-2. Schenn made contact with Bedard, who fell back onto the ice and immediately grabbed at his right shoulder area.

Blackhawks coach Jeff Blashill said Bedard would not play in Chicago's game Saturday against theDetroit Red Wings, and described the injury as a "freak accident,"according to the Chicago Sun-Times. The coach also indicated the team would have a further update on Monday.

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Bedard, who was named the 2023-24 rookie of the year, has been performing like the generational prospect he was hyped to be before the 2023 draft. The 20-year-old has 44 points in 31 games, and his two-assist night Friday moved him into a tie for third in the league in points with 2024 No. 1 pick Macklin Celebrini.

The Blackhawks and their fans are now holding their breath. At 13-12-6, Chicago is currently only one point out of a playoff spot, but that's unlikely to last if Bedard misses significant time.

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Guenther scores tiebreaking goal in 3rd period as Mammoth beat Kraken 5-3 to end three-game skid

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Dylan Guenther scored a go-ahead power-play goal in the third period and the Utah Mammoth beat the Seattle Kraken 5-3 on Friday night to snap a three-game losing streak.

Nick Schmaltz had a goal and two assists, and Kailer Yamamoto, JJ Peterka, and Lawson Crouse also scored for the Mammoth. Kevin Stenlund had three assists and Karel Vejmelka stopped 32 shots.

Mason Marchment had two goals and Ben Meyers also scored for the Kraken in their seventh loss in eight games. Phillipp Grubauer had 26 saves.

After a scoreless first period, Marchment put Seattle on the board with a backhand shot at 3:35 of the second.

Schmaltz tied it at 8:09 with an unassisted goal. He attacked off a breakaway and chipped the puck over Grubauer's shoulder from close range.

Yamamoto then gave Utah its first lead with 6:36 left in the middle period.

Seattle had several shots at an equalizer during a two-man advantage lasting nearly two minutes, but the Kraken came up empty.

Marchment then got his second goal of the night and fourth of the season at 7:50 of the third, slapping the puck home from long distance to tie it.

Guenther gave Utah a 3-2 lead with 7:05 remaining, successfully converting a power play.

Peterka and Crouse added empty netters over the final three minutes, and Meyers scored for Seattle with 43 seconds to go for the final margin.

Kraken: Host Buffalo on Sunday.

Mammoth: At Pittsburgh on Sunday.

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Austrian skier Stefan Brennsteiner leads 1st run of World Cup giant slalom in Val d'Isere

VAL D'ISERE, France (AP) — Austrian skierStefan Brennsteineris poised to add to his breakout season by leading the opening run of a World Cup giant slalom on Saturday.

Brennsteiner stood 0.28 seconds ahead of Henrik Kristoffersen and 0.33 ahead of Timon Haugan.

Swiss standout Marco Odermatt was fourth, 0.46 behind.

Last month at Copper Mountain, Colorado, Brennsteiner won a giant slalom for his first World Cup victory. At age 34, he has also finished fourth in the other two GS races this season.

Including last season, Brennsteiner has finished inside the top 10 in seven consecutive giant slalom races — the longest active streak in the discipline.

Brennsteiner's results could make him a medal contender at the upcomingMilan Cortina Winter Olympics.

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Beloved 'Pulp Fiction,' 'The Mask' Star Dead at 60

Beloved '90s movievillainPeter Greene died at age 60, his manager confirmed.

ThePulp Fictionstar was found unresponsive in his Lower East Side apartment onFriday,December12. He was pronounced dead at the scene,New York Post reported.

"He was a terrific guy," Gregg Edward, Greene's longtime manager, said of the beloved actor. "Truly one of the great actors of our generation. His heart was as big as there was. I'm going to miss him. He was a great friend."

Perhaps best known for his role inQuentin Tarantino's masterpiece, Greene is also recognized for his portrayal of mobster Dorian Tyrell in the 1994superheroslapstick filmThe Mask,alongsideJim CarreyandCameron Diaz.

Greene also starred in films such asTraining Day, The Usual SuspectsandClean, Shaven.

According to his manager, Greene was set to begin production on a project calledMascotsalongside Mickey Rourke, the New York Post reported.

A cause of death has not yet been revealed.

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