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Investigative reporter for The Guardian US “By their fruits, you will know them.” Signal: 929-486-4865 Email: george.joseph@theguardian.com

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 15/09/2026
Officers were instructed to search state voter databases and create federal records on suspected non-citizen voters despite concerns over the process
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DHS officers raise concerns over potentially illegal voter searches and unreliable data, whistleblower says
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Will Craft @wcraft.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
BREAKING: Records obtained through a FOIA lawsuit shows that despite record number of pregnant women are in detention, ICE has lost count of the number of miscarriages. A Deleted Data/Immigration/Guardian investigations collab
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Revealed: ICE lost count of miscarriages, while detaining a record number of pregnant women
ICE says it has no updated information on the number of miscarriages after 3 October 2025. Lawmakers, advocates and immigration attorneys have raised alarms that pregnant detainees are not receiving b...
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George Joseph @georgejoseph94.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
NEW @us.theguardian.com investigation into allegations that Amazon pushed smaller companies into raising prices: “They’d say, ‘You need to go to Target. You need to go talk to Walmart to get them to raise their price.’” www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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‘We were at their mercy’: inside the Amazon tactics that hiked prices across the internet
Internal emails revealed in court and interviews with ex-employees describe how Amazon’s practices drove up prices for competitors like Walmart and Target. Amazon denies price-fixing claims and says i...
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George Joseph @georgejoseph94.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
We reported on UnitedHealth’s push to reduce hospital transfers for nursing homes residents. They sued us. Then we reported on wrongful death allegations stemming from that same UnitedHealth initiative. Today, a judge dismissed UnitedHealth’s lawsuit: www.startribune.com/judge-throws...
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Judge throws out UnitedHealth’s defamation lawsuit against the Guardian
The U.K.-based media outlet called decision to dismiss all six counts in the lawsuit a rejection of UnitedHealth’s ‘bullying and intimidation tactics.’
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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 22/05/2026
For @nybooks.com I wrote about why the US effort to use economic warfare has backfired, leaving it ever more isolated. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
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George Joseph @georgejoseph94.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
When KO, a 41-year-old Guatemalan mother of three was arrested at an ICE check-in appointment, she told an officer she had a 19-month-old who would be expecting her back home. “The officer said my child and I could die for all he cared,” she said. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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Revealed: The Trump administration arrested the parents of at least 27,000 kids in seven months, ICE records show
The Guardian analyzed government data from January-August 2025, as advocates say the family-separation crisis will lead to generational trauma
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George Joseph @georgejoseph94.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Our latest @us.theguardian.com: New evidence shows Amazon allegedly colluding with other firms to raise prices. Here’s a pet treat manufacturer allegedly celebrating coordinated price hikes between Amazon and Chewy, per CA AG: [The prices] “that went up on Amazon immediately went up on Chewy :)”
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
“.. A tanker was also struck while at anchor by an unknown projectile about 23 nautical miles east of the UAE’s Fujairah in the Gulf of Oman ..” @cnbc.com www.cnbc.com/2026/03/17/i...
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Opinion Today @opiniontoday.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Just one in four Americans supports US strikes on Iran, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds www.reuters.com/world/us/jus...
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eP Investiga @epinvestiga.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
#Actualidad | La Procuraduría General de la Nación presentó una denuncia a fin de determinar acciones legales en procesos de adopciones irregulares, que Consuelo Porras habría facilitado. Lee los detalles en la nota 👇 epinvestiga.com/actualidad/p...
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PGN presenta denuncia por adopciones irregulares en caso que involucra a Consuelo Porras
La Procuraduría General de la Nación (PGN) es la primera institución estatal que acciona por posibles adopciones irregulares ocurridas durante el Conflicto Armado Interno en Guatemala, denunciadas por...
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George Joseph @georgejoseph94.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
“But why are building owners facing distress today? The answer in most cases is that they borrowed too much to buy buildings at inflated prices, based on an expectation that rents would rise faster than they actually did.” www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/aft...
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George Joseph @georgejoseph94.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
A mob of unlicensed tow truck operators in NYC is quietly growing. They speed through red lights, race to respond to car crashes, and menace city officials Pedestrians are in danger but the NYPD is doing little to crack down New @liamquigley.bsky.social investigation gothamist.com/news/ghost-f...
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Ghost fleet: How New York City lost control of the tow truck industry
The number of unlicensed tow trucks on city streets has increased, putting drivers and pedestrians at risk.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
New from 404 Media: the FBI has been unable to get into the iPhone of raided Washington Post journalist because the phone had Lockdown Mode enabled. Apple markets Lockdown Mode mostly to stop spyware like NSO. Here, a real world example of it stopping access too www.404media.co/fbi-couldnt-...
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FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled
Lockdown Mode is a sometimes overlooked feature of Apple devices that broadly make them harder to hack. A court record indicates the feature might be effective at stopping third parties unlocking some...
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
2/ Transcript of the NYT video (available at same link) Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis An analysis of footage from three camera angles shows that the motorist was driving away from — not toward — a federal officer when he opened fire.
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Highly important video of the ICE Minnesota shooting. "The driver ... waves for other [vehicles] to go ahead" "The agent is not being run over. In fact, his feet are positioned away from the SUV" "Agents blocked...a physician" from providing medical care. www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
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Video: Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis
An analysis of footage from three camera angles shows that the motorist was driving away from — not toward — a federal officer when he opened fire.
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George Joseph @georgejoseph94.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
NEW: UnitedHealth is withholding key internal documents from senate investigators—according to a new letter from @wyden.senate.gov + @warren.senate.gov Lawmakers are investigating bonuses UnitedHealth pays to nursing homes that cut hospitalizations for seniors www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Senators claim UnitedHealth is withholding internal documents from inquiry
UnitedHealth says it will ‘continue to engage’ with lawmakers who began investigating their involvement in nursing home care after Guardian investigation
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Chris Sommerfeldt @c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Mayor Adams appears to be in Georgia (the country) for the opening of a new room at a hotel.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Among the newly released files, investigators probing Steve Bannon's role in the "We Build the Wall" scheme found a photo of Trump and Ghislaine Maxwell on Bannon's phone in June 2021. www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Among the newly-released Epstein files. This Justice Dept email from Jan 2020 'I wanted to let you know that the flight records we received yesterday reflect that Donald Trump traveled on Epstein's private jet many more times than previously has been reported"
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Stephanie Kirchgaessner @skirchy.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
South Carolina is dealing with a measles outbreak. Here is the latest (and first public health story!) from @bymichellersmith.com on how the anti-vaccine group RFK Jr led for years is coming to his defense www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Anti-vaccine group once led by RFK Jr circulates false assertions amid measles outbreak
Children’s Health Defense using familiar playbook to defend health secretary as it downplays dangers of disease and exaggerate risks of vaccines, public health experts say
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Sam Levine @samrlevine.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
New: Inside the Trump administration’s effort to prosecute a group of protesters in Texas with terrorism charges. The case is more complex than the administration has let on, according to a Guardian review of court records and interviews with family www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Inside DoJ’s controversial prosecution of a Texas ‘antifa cell’ charged with terrorism
DoJ says a group of protesters at an ICE detention center was part of a terror cell; legal experts say it is an effort to crack down on leftwing groups and deter protesters
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Shocker. @politico.com #Epstein www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
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George Joseph @georgejoseph94.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
@scotgirl72.bsky.social Hi, this is George Joseph, reporter for The Guardian. Could you please DM me or get in touch? Thank you 🙏
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George Joseph @georgejoseph94.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
UnitedHealth sued The Guardian after we reported on bonuses it paid nursing homes that cut hospital transfers for seniors. We kept reporting. Now we’re publishing this on allegations that delayed or denied transfers led to the deaths of nursing home residents: www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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UnitedHealth reduced hospitalizations for nursing home seniors. Now it faces wrongful death claims
The company says it is protecting nursing home residents by curbing unnecessary hospital transfers. Whistleblowers allege cost-cutting tactics have endangered the elderly
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Jeff Rueter @jeffrueter.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
NEW: The 2026 #FIFAWorldCup was priced beyond many fans' budgets. Comparing ticket prices dating back to 1994 shows the scale of next summer's mark-up, and where the steepest hikes were felt. With Andrew Witherspoon, for @us.theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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Analysis: how prices for the cheapest World Cup tickets have rocketed
A Guardian study of past ticket prices for the men’s World Cup, compared with current 2026 figures, shows how the barrier for entry has been raised for most fans
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George Joseph @georgejoseph94.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
NEW STORY: Three nursing home residents died because employees of UnitedHealth Group helped delay or deny them critical hospital care, 2 pending lawsuits and a complaint to state authorities have alleged 🧵 on our 6,000 word story below: www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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UnitedHealth reduced hospitalizations for nursing home seniors. Now it faces wrongful death claims
The company says it is protecting nursing home residents by curbing unnecessary hospital transfers. Whistleblowers allege cost-cutting tactics have endangered the elderly
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Ahmed Zidan @zidan.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
NEW: This year, @pressfreedomtracker.us documented 32 arrests, detention of journalists in the U.S. - Nearly 90% of the incidents occurred while journalists were covering demonstrations. - They all also centered around a single issue: immigration. Read full report by @stephaniesugars.bsky.social⬇️
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Press arrests used to silence protest coverage in 2025
More than 30 journalists detained, nearly all released without charges or with them quickly dropped
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
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George Joseph @georgejoseph94.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Schools across US have agreed to Amazon’s “dynamic pricing” contracts—subjecting them to big price swings for basic supplies, new report finds. On the same day, Denver Schools paid $114 for a case of markers, but $149 for another. Amazon disputes the data: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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US schools face big price swings for basics under Amazon’s ‘dynamic pricing’, report claims
Amazon calls the report ‘flawed and misleading’ and says it offers lower prices than competitors
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George Joseph @georgejoseph94.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
“As UnitedHealth Group faces government investigations and changes in federal payments that have hurt its results, it is turning to an increasingly common Washington playbook: hiring Donald Trump’s allies”: www.wsj.com/business/uni...
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Exclusive | UnitedHealth Is Spending Big on Trump Allies to Fix Its Washington Problems
The largest U.S. health insurer’s Medicare business faces investigations and policy threats.
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Aric Toler @aric.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Israel justified its strike on the Nasser Hospital, which killed six journalists and more than a dozen others, by claiming a "Hamas" camera was set up there. The location they attacked is where Reuters and the AP livestream. From me and others (see byline/contribs) www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/w...
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Israel Says It Attacked Gaza Hospital to Destroy Camera Placed by Hamas
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The City Reporter @thecityreporter.nyc · 21/08/2025
BREAKING: Eric Adams Advisor Winnie Greco Handed a CITY Reporter Cash Stuffed in a Bag of Potato Chips www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/20/w...
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Eric Adams Advisor Winnie Greco Handed a CITY Reporter Cash Stuffed in a Bag of Potato Chips
THE CITY reported the incident to law enforcement and was promptly contacted by the Brooklyn U.S. attorney’s office.
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George Joseph @georgejoseph94.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Senators Ron Wyden & Elizabeth Warren are asking UnitedHealth to hand over company records about its attempts to reduce hospitalizations for nursing home residents—following our investigation: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Senators seek UnitedHealth records on push to curb nursing home hospitalizations
Ron Wyden and Elizabeth Warren sent a letter to the healthcare conglomerate on Thursday citing a Guardian investigation
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EL PERFIL @elperfil.pe · 28/07/2025
Declarado culpable el expresidente de Colombia Álvaro Uribe por soborno de testigos en actuación penal
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Declarado culpable el expresidente de Colombia Álvaro Uribe por soborno de testigos en actuación penal
Una jueza de Bogotá determinó la culpabilidad de Álvaro Uribe por soborno de testigos en un caso que se remonta a 2012.
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George Joseph @georgejoseph94.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
@thecity.nyc finds Eric Adams collected more alleged straw donations after Trump’s DOJ killed its straw donation case against him. “I don’t really work. Where would I get this much money?” one supposed Adams donor said: www.thecity.nyc/2025/07/24/e...
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New Eric Adams ‘Donors’ Say They Never Gave to His Reelection Campaign
The campaign sought public matching funds from donors who insist they didn’t donate, just weeks after a judge dropped his corruption case.
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George Joseph @georgejoseph94.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
“Federal agents make warrantless arrests. Masked agents take people into custody without identifying themselves. Plainclothes agents in at least a dozen cities have arrested migrants who showed up to their court hearings.” www.wsj.com/us-news/prot...
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The White House Marching Orders That Sparked the L.A. Migrant Crackdown
After deportations fell short of President Trump’s campaign promises, federal agents summoned to a meeting in Washington were told to “just go out there and arrest illegal aliens.”
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George Joseph @georgejoseph94.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
NEW: @aoc.bsky.social calls on DOJ to investigate UnitedHealth’s campaign to reduce hospital transfers for nursing home seniors. And Sen @wyden.senate.gov launches his own investigation into the healthcare giant: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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UnitedHealth faces federal scrutiny into whistleblower claims
Attention comes in wake of ex-employees’ allegations that insurer paid nursing homes to reduce hospital transfers and used improper tactics to gain Medicare Advantage enrollees
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George Joseph @georgejoseph94.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
New @theguardian.com investigation: UnitedHealth secretly paid nursing homes bonuses to slash hospitalizations for elderly residents. Company tactics resulted in delayed/avoided hospitalizations for seniors who needed care. One suffered permanent brain damage: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Revealed: UnitedHealth secretly paid nursing homes to reduce hospital transfers
A Guardian investigation finds insurer quietly paid facilities that helped it gain Medicare enrollees and reduce hospitalizations. Whistleblowers allege harm to residents
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George Joseph @georgejoseph94.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
New: Indiana passes landmark legislation putting effective price caps on nonprofit hospitals—which benefit from tax exempt status. This follows a @us.theguardian.com investigation into one of the state’s most expensive chains: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Indiana passes law threatening non-profit status of expensive hospitals
Landmark legislation follows local uproar over a Guardian investigation into a major non-profit’s high prices
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Stephanie Kirchgaessner @skirchy.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Journalism matters. This follows reporting by @georgejoseph94.bsky.social, @wcraft.bsky.social, and @jessicaglenza.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Indiana passes law threatening non-profit status of expensive hospitals
Landmark legislation follows local uproar over a Guardian investigation into a major non-profit’s high prices
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George Joseph @georgejoseph94.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
“Deputies are stopping Hispanic drivers for minor, unprovable traffic violations like veering left of center, then handing them over to Border Patrol agents who are sometimes already at the scene, the @syracuse.com investigation shows.” www.syracuse.com/news/2025/04...
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Inside Trump’s Upstate NY migrant hunt: Border Patrol’s meaner tactics snare workers and families
“It’s scary,” said a woman whose relatives have disappeared. “You can be followed just for being Hispanic.”
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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
SCOOP: Hooded ICE agents snatched Indian-born Georgetown postdoc Badar Suri from Rosslyn street Monday, per court filing. Like Khalil, linked to pro-Palestinian views & Rubio 'foreign policy' power, lawyer says. Then whisked to Louisiana. w/ @kyledcheney www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
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Trump is seeking to deport another graduate student who is legally in the country, lawsuit says
Badar Khan Suri, a fellow at Georgetown, says he is being punished because of the suspected views of his wife, a U.S. citizen with Palestinian heritage.
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George Joseph @georgejoseph94.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
SCOOP: Eric Adams’ admin is paying $500K a month in public funds to an indicted developer who could testify against him + top allies This is the same developer who let the mayor’s son stay overnight with a woman in a taxpayer-funded room at her hotel: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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New York City paying $500,000 a month to indicted developer who could testify against Mayor Eric Adams
The Adams administration has continued to pay the hotel company of Weihong Hu, a developer accused of funneling illegal campaign donations to the mayor
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Yesterday, I published an investigation into a secretive & abusive NYPD unit led by Mayor Eric Adams’ buddies. Adams has embraced the unit, the Community Response Team, even after NYPD officials raised red flags. This is what that has wrought. **All caught on video we obtained.** THREAD.
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George Joseph @georgejoseph94.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
NYC Mayor Eric Adams—who is seeking the dismissal of his federal corruption charges and has publicly pledged to collaborate with Trump’s migrant crackdown—did not respond to requests for comment.
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George Joseph @georgejoseph94.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
BREAKING: The Department of Justice has sent a criminal subpoena to a NYC migrant shelter hotel demanding they give up the names of the families living there—per document obtained by @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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DoJ demands New York migrant shelter give up names of people living there
Subpoena issued to Manhattan hotel asks for ‘a list of full names of aliens currently residing’ at the site
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Annie Waldman @anniewaldman.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
NEW: Vaccines. Bird Flu. COVID. Autism. Peanut Allergies. Fluoride. Environmental justice. Cancer Moonshot. These and other “controversial" or "sensitive” topics will get extra scrutiny at the National Cancer Institute under RFK. From me + @lisalsong.bsky.social: www.propublica.org/article/nati...
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National Cancer Institute Employees Can’t Publish Information on These Topics Without Special Approval
Vaccines. Fluoride. Autism. Communications involving these and 20 other “controversial, high profile, or sensitive” topics will get extra scrutiny under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
The DC police last week sought to arrest a sitting member of Congress, a Florida Republican, for physically assaulting a woman in DC. But the US attorney’s office didn’t sign off on it. www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/f...
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Florida congressman investigated for alleged DC assault as police probe their own handling
D.C. police confirm they are investigating an alleged assault by Florida Rep. Cory Mills, a Republican representing a district northeast of Orlando, calling it an active criminal investigation.
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George Joseph @georgejoseph94.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Eric Adams ran on protecting immigrants. Now he’s helping Trump deport them. My latest on the mayor’s conversion: www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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‘He’s selling the city’: behind Eric Adams’s New York City administration
The mayor of America’s largest city is caught up in a swirl of indictments, immigrants, Rikers and Donald Trump
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George Joseph @georgejoseph94.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
NEW: United Healthcare cut off this 82 year-old’s rehab coverage though his family says he could barely walk. The family appealed + won. But United cut his coverage again—then again. He gave up. He died 5 days later: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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‘It’s a money game to them’: a son takes on UnitedHealth over his elderly father’s care
Robby Martin has joined a lawsuit against UnitedHealth after the insurance giant cut off his father’s nursing home coverage – five days later his father died at home
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