Ava Benny-Morrison
@avabmorrison
Bloomberg @business legal reporter covering SDNY | Author of The Lost Girls @HarperCollinsAU | @columbiajourn alum | [email protected] 🇦🇺 in 🇺🇸
Bypassing Habba, Judges in New Jersey Name New Top Federal Prosecutor nytimes.com/2025/07/22/nyr… via @NYTimes
Former FBI director James Comey’s daughter has been ousted from her job as a federal prosecutor in New York bloomberg.com/news/articles/… w @mylesmill
Scoop from @ElleBeyoud & @sridinats A pair of US investigations into crypto-betting platform Polymarket are now being shut down just as Trump’s White House seeks to give the industry a boost bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via @business
Jane Street’s Rob Granieri says he was duped into funding AK-47s for a South Sudan coup plot. Details stem from the U.S. prosecution of peace activist Peter Ajak last year. Reporting w/ @sridinats on this intriguing case… bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Jane Street’s Rob Granieri says he was duped into funding AK-47s for a South Sudan coup plot, @avabmorrison @sridinats report @business bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Trump is granting pardons to reality television stars Todd and Julie Chrisley, who were convicted of fraud and tax evasion, the latest offer of clemency to prominent figures accused of white-collar crimes bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Here's the biggest piece of journalism I’ve worked on in years: An atlas to the Trump family’s moneymaking. It’s all here. And even though it (sometimes) gets overshadowed by politics, it's important and it's vast. And it’s a gift link! bloomberg.com/features/2025-…
NEW: President Trump's policies and actions have been stopped by US courts more than 200 times. We've been tracking lawsuits from the moment he was sworn in, identifying at least 320+ by the start of May -- and more keep coming. A deep, deep dive into the data:…
A pardon in the United States in 2025? That'll cost you $1 million. "It’s signed," Trump told one executive who'd been convicted of fraud. "You’re cleaner than a baby’s bottom, you’re cleaner than I am." The goods from @avabmorrison and @bill_allison bloomberg.com/news/features/…
Trump's embrace of his pardon powers has powerful people lining up with appeals, trying to use the president's personal grievances to their advantage. A look at the fees and strategies embraced in today’s feverish clemency market w/ @bill_allison bloomberg.com/news/features/… @business
Representatives for Indian billionaire Gautam Adani and his companies met Trump administration officials about dismissing the criminal charges levied against him in an overseas bribery probe with @Tschoenberg22 and @talktosanjai bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via @bpolitics
Luigi Mangione pleaded not guilty to federal murder charges that carry a possible death sentence in the shooting of a UnitedHealth Group executive bloomberg.com/news/articles/… #law
A state judge in Wisconsin was arrested Friday by federal agents after an investigation into whether she obstructed an immigration arrest last week bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via @bpolitics
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has made an eleventh-hour bid to avoid the worst of US President Donald Trump’s trade strikes by enlisting the advice of one of the most influential Australians in Trump’s orbit, golf star Greg Norman. smh.com.au/politics/feder…
Judge Dale Ho orders dismissal WITH prejudice of indictment against NYC Mayor Eric Adams. Judge said “everything here smacks of a bargain: dismissal of the indictment in exchange for immigration policy concessions.” @business
American war planning usually takes place in highly secure facilities. But the Trump administration planned its strikes on the Houthis using a group chat—and accidentally included The Atlantic’s editor in chief, @JeffreyGoldberg. theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
He was peacemaker at Apollo. Now he's gearing up for one of the hottest seats in American law as the sheriff of Wall Street. @sridinats & I explore what a SDNY under Jay Clayton will look like as the office reels from DC’s handling of Eric Adams case bloomberg.com/news/features/…
Lawyers for ex Barclays boss Jes Staley argued that the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein had “the most remarkable network of contacts”, as they kicked off a court challenge against his lifetime ban from financial services @jonny_browning bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via @business