Jesse Eisinger
@eisingerj
ProPublica Editor. “Chickenshit Club" author. http://bit.ly/2mI34A0 @sarahellison's husband. “Succession” S3 consultant. GB Packers.Also @[email protected]
"One theme around here is that the big multistrategy hedge funds — Citadel, Millennium, Point72, Balyasny, etc. — are slowly becoming what the big investment banks were 20 years ago." And yet, there are ZERO nonbanks designated systemically significant. bloomberg.com/opinion/newsle…
Jeffrey Epstein secretly invested millions of dollars with @peterthiel. The huge profits on that investment will likely go to Epstein's advisers and ex-girlfriends, not to his victims. by @mattgoldstein26 nytimes.com/2025/06/04/bus…
My profile of Ken Kies, the lobbyist behind the biggest, most lucrative tax dodges of the past 30 years -- and is now the top tax policy official in Trump's Treasury Dept: nytimes.com/2025/07/14/bus…
1/ There are hundreds of layoffs planned across the State Department in the coming days, including much of the foreign and civil service. Do you work, or have you worked, at the agency? If so, we want to hear from you. You can reach me on Signal at 508-523-5195
So Zelensky did everything Trump asked him to do, signed away mineral rights, agreed to an unconditional ceasefire, and the U.S. still cut off previously funded weapons supplies, leaving Ukrainian cities defenseless against Russian missile strikes. A lesson to all here.
BREAKING: White House confirms it has halted weapons that Ukraine was scheduled to receive, including PAC3 Patriots, 155mm artillery rounds, GMLRS, Stinger, AIM-7, and Hellfire missiles. @AnnaKelly47 tells me: “This decision was made to put America’s interests first following a…
NEW story: @KristiNoem secretly took a cut of political donations and then failed to disclose it
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: A source with direct ties to Iranian officials tells Whale Hunting the U.S. strikes were a failure—contradicting Trump’s claim of “obliteration.” Iran retains 80% of its centrifuges and 100% of its uranium stockpile. Here’s what else we found 🧵
New: Kristi Noem secretly took a cut of political donations. A dark money group routed the funds to Noem's Delaware LLC, tax records show. The original source of the money remains unclear. propublica.org/article/kristi…
Holy crap. According to CBO, by the end of the 10 years, fully 81% of the total benefit of the GOP's budget bill goes to the richest 1/10th, while the bottom 40% will pay more.
A beneficiary of the administration slashing RFA and other USAGM entities? Chinese propagandists. RFA helped break China’s persecution of Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities around China. Now, there’s essentially a propaganda monopoly. My latest with the excellent @catecadell
Does Trump know that @elonmusk paid $0 in federal income taxes in recent years? Does @elonmusk know than Trump pays little to no fed'l income tax? Do they know they could really hurt each other by supporting a billionaires unrealized gains tax? propublica.org/article/the-se…
These RIF notices have started going out within the last hour, per sources inside VOA.
Voice of America director Michael Abramowitz, one of the plaintiffs against the government, sent this note to staff following our Washington Post report of a RIF plan to fire almost all VOA staffers.
Every Sunday, the print classifieds in metro newspapers are full of listings for tech jobs that aren't actually open. It's a window into a deeply flawed corner of US immigration law that hurts both US and foreign workers, yet has endured for decades. I decided to explore further:
Read the full story here. Anna and I will continue reporting on the fallout. If you have information, I’m on Signal at +1 508 523 5195 propublica.org/article/trump-…
NEW: Internal State Department records show that months of warnings have become a reality: The Trump administration’s sudden withdrawal of foreign humanitarian aid has brought about death, violence and unrest. 1/
A great journalist and Prince of Our City and a beloved friend has died. @tommy_robb took investigative zeal & married it to a great empathy for those without power, behind bars unjustly and so on. "Be skeptical but never cynical": journalism.cuny.edu/2025/05/in-mem…
Tom Robbins and I enjoyed many great concerts together over the years -- Irma Thomas, Syl Johnson, Candi Staton, Dan Penn/Spooner Oldham. One of the best was James Carr, at The Bottom Line. Playing this in his memory this AM: youtube.com/watch?v=l5evgZ… @tommy_robb
Hundreds of Voice of America staffers due to be terminated today, per a source familiar. The appeals court has yet to rule on reversing Lamberth, so it's unclear if this will stand. More soon...
NEW: We recently heard that the Trump administration was leaning on the government of Gambia to help Elon Musk. For weeks, we made phone calls, wrote letters and knocked on folks’ doors to try to confirm it. But we were stuck. So @js_kaplan and I got on a plane to Banjul. 1/
This is an enormous story. Thankful that ProPublica has pursued it so well, especially considering the way other media have snoozed. (While embracing Afrikaners as genocide victims, no less.) propublica.org/article/trump-…