Robert Faturechi
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Investigative reporter, @ProPublica. Email tips: [email protected] Signal/WhatsApp: 213-271-7217
U.S. AG Pam Bondi sold more than $1 million in Trump Media stock the day President Trump announced sweeping tariffs. NBC News reached out to the DOJ about Bondi’s trades but they declined to comment. @RobertFaturechi joins @AnaCabrera to explain more. msnbc.com/ana-cabrera-re…
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. propublica.org/article/pam-bo…
The American organ transplant system was built to be fair. But increasingly, officials are ignoring the rules and skipping over the patients most in need. Our investigation, with @cocteau and @blueshirt: nytimes.com/interactive/20…
New: Records show well-timed trades by executive branch employees and congressional aides. Even if they had no insider information, ethics experts say such trading undermines faith in government and the markets. propub.li/436WIlo
New: Duffy is the second member of Trump's cabinet who sold securities shortly before the president's tariff announcements sent markets plunging. A spokesperson for Duffy said an account manager made the trades and that Duffy had no input on the timing. propub.li/3F2a5u2
NEW: Behind closed doors, the Trump administration has mounted a “maximum pressure” campaign on a poor African democracy. The objective: push the country to help Elon Musk's Starlink business. w/ @BrettMmurphy @JustinElliott @Amierjeski propublica.org/article/trump-…
Almost double what the NYC chancellor makes to run the largest school system in the country!
NEW: This superintendent runs a small charter school network with less than 1,000 students. He's made up to $870,000 in recent years. Salvador Cavazos appears to be the highest-paid superintendent in Texas and among the among the top in the country. Taxpayers likely have no clue
New: The evangelical pastor behind a secretive influence project appears to be running a group house for conservative lawmakers in D.C. In addition to @SpeakerJohnson living there, Trump ally Congressman @AndyOgles has the keys.
New: Ethical concerns surround Sen. Joni Ernst’s romantic relationships with top military officials who lobbied her committee propublica.org/article/joni-e…
New: Speaker Mike Johnson is living in a D.C. townhouse that is the center of an evangelical pastor’s secretive influence campaign — and the home is owned by a major GOP donor. propublica.org/article/mike-j…
JUST IN: Another medical horror story in a court affidavit from a USAID employee stationed overseas. Says his pregnant wife was not medevac-ed for emergency health care because of directives from Washington. Took intervention of a U.S. senator to reverse — but was too late.
Melania pitched her documentary idea to Bezos over dinner at Mar-a-Lago. Amazon agreed to pay $40M—with more than 70% going to her. And her agent has been trying to sell "sponsorships" for the film—starting at $10M—to CEOs at the inauguration. Buyers would get thanked in the…
Breaking News: Manhattan’s acting U.S. attorney resigned after she was ordered by the Justice Department to drop a corruption case against Mayor Eric Adams that she had championed. nyti.ms/4hQW14N
The administration says this has all been legal. But here’s what one political appointee said to the agency’s top civil servants right after inauguration
We'll see if this happens, but Trump's stated tax priorities unexpectedly include eliminating tax breaks for "billionaire sports team owners." We @propublica went deep on those tax breaks: propublica.org/article/the-bi…
Trump's meeting w/ members still ongoing but @PressSec said he laid out tax priorities: -No tax on tips, Social Security, overtime pay -Renew 2017 tax cuts -Adjust SALT cap -Eliminate tax breaks for "billionaire sports team owners" -Close carried interest tax deduction loophole
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/exclusive…
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. latimes.com/entertainment-…
This is what actual accountability looks like.
As the LAFD faced extraordinary warnings of life-threatening winds, top commanders decided not to assign for emergency deployment roughly 1,000 available firefighters and dozens of engines in advance of the Palisades fire, records show. latimes.com/california/sto…
NEW: A wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover in right-wing militias. He didn't tell the cops or the FBI. He didn't tell friends or family. The one person he told: @js_kaplan. This is his story. It's a doozy: propublica.org/article/ap3-oa…
If the president was having an off day, meetings could be scrapped altogether. On one such occasion, a national security official explained to another aide why a meeting needed to be rescheduled. “He has good days and bad days, and today was a bad."