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Robert Faturechi

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Investigative reporter, @ProPublica Email tips: robert.faturechi@propublica.org Signal/WhatsApp: 213-271-7217

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Robert Faturechi @robert-faturechi.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
New: A top White House aide intervened to get a $620 million Pentagon loan for a company tied to Donald Trump Jr. “The call came from the White House: We have to get this done,” said one person involved. www.propublica.org/article/dona...
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The White House Intervened to Get a $620 Million Deal for a Company Tied to Donald Trump Jr.
About three months before the Pentagon announced plans to lend money to Vulcan Elements, Trump Jr.’s venture capital firm took an undisclosed stake in the company.
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Robert Faturechi @robert-faturechi.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
I recently learned someone is posing as me, trying to work people for info. So I did some reporting of my own on what appears to be the latest evolution of online deception... www.propublica.org/article/impe...
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Who’s Been Impersonating This ProPublica Reporter?
A mysterious impostor who claimed to be ProPublica reporter Robert Faturechi reached out to a Canadian official and a Latvian businessman working with Ukraine. So, the real Robert did some reporting o...
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Robert Faturechi @robert-faturechi.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
NEW: The Trump administration has been accusing political enemies of mortgage fraud for claiming more than one primary residence. Records show President Trump himself did the same thing. www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal
The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing ...
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Robert Faturechi @robert-faturechi.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
NEW: The White House intervened on behalf of accused sex trafficker Andrew Tate during a federal investigation. “It was so offensive to what we’re all here to do, to uphold the law and protect the American people,” one official involved said. www.propublica.org/article/andr...
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The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.
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Robert Faturechi @robert-faturechi.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
New: Trump Is Accusing Foes With Multiple Mortgages of Fraud. Records Show 3 of His Cabinet Members Have Them. www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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Trump Is Accusing Foes With Multiple Mortgages of Fraud. Records Show 3 of His Cabinet Members Have Them.
The White House has targeted opponents, including a Fed governor, for having more than one primary residence on their loan papers. ProPublica found that, in one case, a Trump cabinet secretary got two...
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Robert Faturechi @robert-faturechi.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Horryifying. DOGE made false allegations against an Afghan man who had helped the U.S. Then the Taliban captured, blindfolded and beat his family. www.propublica.org/article/doge...
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DOGE Targeted Him on Social Media. Then the Taliban Took His Family.
Afghan scholar Mohammad Halimi, who fled the Taliban in 2021, had worked to help U.S. diplomats understand his homeland. Then DOGE put his family’s lives at risk by exposing his sensitive work for a U...
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Robert Faturechi @robert-faturechi.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Records show Attorney General Pam Bondi sold between $1 and $5 million worth of Trump Media shares on April 2. That same day, after the market closed, Trump announced his Liberation Day tariffs, sending the stock market plunging. www.propublica.org/article/pam-...
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U.S. AG Pam Bondi Sold More than $1 Million in Trump Media Stock the Day Trump Announced Sweeping Tariffs
Disclosure forms show that Bondi sold between $1 million and $5 million worth of shares on April 2. That day, after the market closed, Trump’s “Liberation Day” press conference sent the market tumblin...
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Robert Faturechi @robert-faturechi.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
When a participant in the meeting asked him why he wouldn’t more forcefully call out Trump’s false claims about Social Security fraud, Dudek answered, “This is dealing with — have you ever worked with someone who’s manic-depressive?”
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Justin Elliott @justinelliott.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
New: The evangelical pastor running a secretive influence project appears to be running a group house for lawmakers in D.C. In addition to Mike Johnson living there, Trump ally Andy Ogles has the keys. www.propublica.org/article/room... w/ @josh-kaplan.bsky.social @amierjeski.bsky.social
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Secretive D.C. Influence Project Appears to Be Running a Group House for Right-Wing Lawmakers
Evangelical pastor Steve Berger’s political influence campaign operates out of his D.C. townhouse. In addition to House Speaker Mike Johnson living there, a prominent Trump ally, Rep. Andy Ogles, has ...
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Robert Faturechi @robert-faturechi.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
NEW: Sen. Joni Ernst had relationships with two military officials who lobby her committee, according to sources. “From an ethics standpoint, it’s severely problematic,” one former legislative affairs official said. www.propublica.org/article/joni...
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Ethical Concerns Surround Sen. Joni Ernst’s Relationships With Top Military Officials Who Lobbied Her Committee
Ernst, an Iowa Republican, is one of the most influential voices in Congress on military topics. Ethics and military experts say her relationships with top Air Force and Navy officials created potenti...
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Robert Faturechi @robert-faturechi.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
New: DOGE is expected to examine another sensitive system at Treasury next week www.propublica.org/article/elon...
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Elon Musk’s DOGE Is Expected to Examine Another Treasury System Next Week
The new target, sources said, is a sensitive database that tracks the flow of money across the government.
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Robert Faturechi @robert-faturechi.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
@propublica.org revealed the details of those tax breaks in 2021 www.propublica.org/article/the-...
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Robert Faturechi @robert-faturechi.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
This is significant: Lawyers at the SEC have been told they need to seek permission from the politically appointed leadership before formally launching probes. finance.yahoo.com/news/exclusi...
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SEC's Republican-led commission tightens oversight of probes, sources say
Lawyers at the U.S. Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) have been told they need to seek permission from the politically appointed leadership before formally launching probes, two sources briefed on ...
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Robert Faturechi @robert-faturechi.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Donald Trump sued CBS over its editing of a Kamala Harris interview. Now Trump's new FCC chairman demanded CBS turn over the full, unedited transcript of the Harris interview, including footage from different camera angles. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
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FCC demands CBS News turn over '60 Minutes' interview amid Trump lawsuit
The latest development comes as Paramount Global lawyers engaged in preliminary talks to settle the lawsuit Trump filed in October over his objection to edits to the '60 Minutes' interview with Harris...
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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
NEW: The Trump admin told a US-funded aid group that gives food & medicine to starving children in Sudan to shut down. Children would die. They’re defying the order. But the aid world is in chaos. Brett Murphy & Anna Barry-Jester: www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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Robert Faturechi @robert-faturechi.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
NEW: There have been internal concerns that Trump Media has misled investors about Truth Social's performance, a source said. But with Donald Trump, $DJT's largest shareholder, about to be president, will the SEC be up to the job of investigating? www.propublica.org/article/dona...
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Donald Trump Controls a Publicly Traded Company. Now He Will Pick Its Regulator.
There have been internal concerns that Trump Media could be misleading investors, a source said. But with its largest shareholder about to be president, experts doubt the SEC is up to the job of inves...
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Robert Faturechi @robert-faturechi.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Help us continue to expose abuses of power.
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Robert Faturechi @robert-faturechi.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Bondi was a central player in @ericliptonnyt.bsky.social's Pulitzer Prize-winning series about state AGs accepting travel/ gifts/campaign $$ from corporate interests trying to avoid scrutiny and get investigations dropped. nytimes.com/2014/10/29/u...
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Lobbyists, Bearing Gifts, Pursue Attorneys General (Published 2014)
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Robert Faturechi @robert-faturechi.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Now that we’re headed into a second Trump presidency, Truth Social/Trump Media has become incredibly important. $DJT’s value is in the billions - arguably Trump’s most important asset moving forward. We have been covering the company in depth. Here’s what we’ve found so far: 🧵
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