Might want to update those lawyer questionnaires:
"Are you the subject of any pending or adjudicated bar complaints or malpractice claims, or have you been compared to a slimy animal of any kind by a court or administrative body?
A married couple who chauffeured and house-sat for the publisher of
@newrepublic
allegedly charged his credit card $34 million over 7 years and he didn't notice
NEW: Business Insider's further review of Neri Oxman's work uncovered plagiarism from Wikipedia and other works in her PhD dissertation.
Her husband
@BillAckman
has called plagiarism a "serious" offense. But they wouldn't comment to us about this.
NEW: Bizarre transcripts filed yesterday by Giuliani accuser Noelle Dunphy depict him acknowledging an affair, claiming that various people are gay, and making crass sexual comments.
Here's one of the more PG ones. More in
@JayShams
' story:
I’m on strike.
@thisisinsider
illegally changed our health insurance in the middle of bargaining. They are also trying to preserve their right to raise health premiums by up to 10% per year.
I love working here, but me and the rest of
@InsiderUnion
say enough.
News flash: we aren’t giving up.
While our boss was riding horses in Jackson Hole, we were sweating it out on strike. And we’ll be out here as long as it takes to get a fair deal.
If
@nichcarlson
,
@hblodget
and the management team didn’t hear us before, they will.
Did you know
@nichcarlson
@hblodget
and other Insider execs changed our health insurance without bargaining last year, causing union members’ health costs to skyrocket?
@InsiderUnion
filed an Unfair Labor Practice, and now we're on strike for a settlement and our contract!
🚨 Big-name musicians like Post Malone, Chris Brown, and Nickelback scored a whopping $200 million in pandemic taxpayer cash through a grant program for arts organizations affected by COVID-19.
How? Details here:
US media mocked China for building “rail to nowhere,” even though NYC did the same thing 100 years ago.
Now China’s nowhere is somewhere, and most of the US still isn’t building anything anywhere.
... Despite what some news sources comment about how China does TOD and urban development. Some of those news sources forget they also did these things in the past. Maybe they're mad they no longer have the capability to pull it off these days? Pics from NYCT Museum (13)
27/ There are entire online forums dedicated to buying & selling human beings.
“Selling a Chinese man in Sihanoukville just smuggled from China. 22 years old with ID card,” read one
@Telegram
ad from this summer, listing $10K as the price.
We of
@InsiderUnion
are fighting for affordable healthcare and fair pay for everyone.
But it’s the lowest-paid in our unit who we are fighting for the hardest. They stand with us — so please help us stand with them, and with all who face an outsize financial burden by striking.
we’re committed to fighting for the future of our industry, to addressing the inequity that’s been able to flourish at insider while execs line their pockets.
in the meantime, pls consider donating $ so we can keep the fight alive as long as we need to:
Today I join my
@law360union
colleagues in a walkout to protest illegal, heartless layoffs initiated even as our company brags about its profit growth. My
@Law360
team was cut in half. You can support my friends and colleagues here:
#Layoffs360
SCOOP: Rudy Giuliani's 3-bedroom apartment in a historic building near Central Park is on the market.
It's the same one the FBI searched in 2021.
Asking price: $6.5 million.
with
@Schwartzesque
@J_Dot_J
New York statutes often write out numbers, which is a huge hassle when you're trying to do research across multiple sections.
You might Ctrl-F for 7700(a)(3) and not find it because it's written as "paragraph three of subsection (a) of section seventy-seven hundred."
Reporters (and other "awe-struck" workers) have reached a breaking point. The latest newsroom to strike is
@BusinessInsider
, and
@InsiderUnion
is publishing a delightful countersite called (what else?), *Business Outsider*:
70/
How dare the New York Times write about a thing that’s not the worst thing. They should be trying to interview a person who lost their entire family and will speak to the press for the eleventh time.
On Friday, Elicia Stratton searched desperately through the wreckage of her Lahaina home for the Rolex watch her parents gave her when she graduated college.
Suddenly, her fiancé pulled it from the ashes. “You found it!” she said, choking up. It was damaged but still legible.
The Kansas court that authorized a search of a newspaper office doesn’t say the PC affidavit is sealed - they say it doesn’t exist. How is this possible?
We aren’t giving up.
@hblodget
,
@nichcarlson
, we know you can do better. And we know a news organization can’t last long without the people who create the news.
So come to the table with counters we can be proud of. Let’s get rowing in the same direction again.
.
@InsiderUnion
strike day 6 has wrapped.
Management did not come to the table today — despite a company wide email from them yday saying that “we hope to spend more time at the bargaining table and remain open and available to meet with the union to work through this.”
🤔🧐😶
@BillAckman
@NeriOxman
Bill's followers can judge our story for themselves — and read the exact language we found on Wikipedia and in this academic work:
NEW: Records from the Pauline Newman probe raise questions about the burdens on judicial clerks and staff.
Some drive their judges, babysit, even do laundry. Is it courtesy, part of a warm relationship? Or is it subtly compelled?
Thank you, stranger, for anonymously mailing me interesting documents. The rest of you, what's your excuse?
Jack Newsham
One Liberty Plaza, 8th Floor
New York, NY 10006
The head of the litigation department of a midsize nyc law firm is representing himself in a lawsuit he filed over a neighbor’s aggressive dog in case you’re wondering how law firms are doing
Remember Dov Charney? It sure seems like Milo Yiannopoulos lives in his giant landmarked house that creditors are trying to seize, but he called
@Noah__Goldberg
"maudlin" (???) for asking.
Post Malone went on a real-estate shopping spree before his company got a $10M grant in 2021.
Records show he bought this house. Paid cash.
He spent over $1 million for a property to forge knives and swords, "as a hobby."
“Ackman's softened stance on plagiarism is a marked difference from his statements made less than a week ago, in which he called allegations of plagiarism against Gay ‘a scandal and a stain on the reputation of Harvard.’”
Levien, who also co-owns Swansea City and the Brisbane Bullets, falsely claimed Florida residence while residing in New York City and Washington, DC, the whistleblower lawsuit says
"...the instances of Oxman's and Gay's plagiarism have more similarities than differences, according to experts and an internal analysis."
@bylloydlee
and
@MadelinePBerg
walk you through -->
NEW: An NYPD detective ran a private security firm from his precinct for years. Bosses didn't care. And sources told me he isn't the only one: "A lot of that stuff's not authorized," a retired lieutenant told me.
Outlets should hire Nick! He's a reporter's editor and I regret I did not have longer to work with him. He gave a boost to my best copy and took a scalpel to my worst stuff.
I talked to
@semaforben
about his very conspicuous vanity plate, which he says is a cheap and effective form of marketing, as evidence by my noticing it
No more pitching "grumpy journos," their website says. PRs can offer clients "GUARANTEED" publication on websites that — if you squint and don't actually read them — look sort of like news.
A lot of these probably look familiar. That's probably the point!
Bankruptcy gives FTX's new management a powerful tool: the power to claw back "fraudulent transfers." That could encompass hundreds of millions in giving from FTX and its top executives.
The Dai-Ichi Tokyo Bar Association mascot, a young penguin lawyer named Ichipen (left), appeared at the Judicial Press Club in Tokyo today to announce changes in inheritance law due to the revision of the Civil Code. Fun!
EXCLUSIVE: A 33-year-old Russian-speaking immigrant posing as Anna de Rothschild -- a member of the European banking dynasty -- infiltrated Mar-a-Lago and Trump's entourage. Said one guest: "How did they allow it?"
@PittsburghPG
and
@OCCRP
Sure, we don’t have a functioning Congress, but we are getting new politician-measured lengths of time.
A scaramucci: 11 days
A jordan: 7 days
A scalise: 1 day
An emmer: 4 hours
Why do news outlets keep using the term “homeowner” in their coverage of Andrew Lester’s shooting of Ralph Yarl?
CNN, NYT, CBS, KC Star, all in their headlines or ledes.
@CostaKapo
@amandaorson
@nytimes
Link to the data source? I could only find links to Infogram pages with barely any more detail. A search for the supposed Clever survey got me zip.
NEW: Covenant Eyes, the porn-alert app that Speaker Mike Johnson talked about using with his son, is also popular with probation officers,
@ByKLong
and I found.
The CEO of Covenant Eyes has a message for them: stop! You aren't supposed to be doing that!
When I saw someone I was investigating tout a placement in "US Insider," a website whose logo looked a lot like my website's logo, I did a double-take.
Turns out it was just the tip of the iceberg.
Meet NewsAnchored.
Just voted. Let me say for the record that 92 selections is too many, especially when many are trial judges. I’m a pretty plugged into the local bar lawyer and even I don’t know all these people.
The company never responded to my questions. I don't even know who runs it; Dillon Kivo, its chief marketing officer, is the only one who uses his full name and a photo.
A few days after I reached out, they started changing the logos.
@ndhapple
“…the MTA partially blamed the overstaffing on 170 conductors and assistant conductors being assigned to construction projects” — what did they do on the construction projects?
This isn't a he-said, she-said. Lots of news orgs screwing up.
Ogles said "I think we should kill them all, if that makes you feel better. Everybody in Hamas."
@AlJazeera
's video even *includes this in the captions,* but it does NOT *include it in the quote in the story.*
Btw how bad is it that even Qatar-owned Al Jazeera correctly identifies that
@AndyOgles
was "talking about Hamas in Gaza", but Vice News and all these other people have still spent the day spreading a lie using an intentionally edited clip?
NEW:
@SenMullin
told
@TeamsterSOB
yesterday that he paid himself just $50,000 when he owned a plumbing business.
That's not what his financial disclosures said.
Details on pay increases in the minor leagues:
Complex league: From $4,800 per year to $19,800
Low-A: $11,000 to $26,200
High-A: $11,000 to $27,300
AA: $13,800 to $30,250
AAA: $17,500 to $35,800
Players will be paid almost year-round, aside from a six-week break in the winter.
NEW: Drug dealers have taken advantage of a change in Google search to advertise cocaine, meth, and heroin on government websites.
And yes… on Insider’s, too.
Great scoop from
@ByKLong
These artists, through businesses they ran, were paid by the Shuttered Venue Operators Grant program.
SVOG was a lifeline for indie venues and nonprofits.
But when
@ByKLong
and I asked big-name musicians how they spent the money?
🦗🦗🦗
If you are in New York trying to get prosecuted for a criminal charge today don’t go to the Manhattan criminal courthouse!! Wait time extremely long there. Go to another courthouse to get prosecuted 🙏
Colleagues
@NicoleEinbinder
and
@dakincampbell
have doggedly covered the "Texas two-step" bankruptcy of one of America's biggest private prison healthcare companies — and landed a big scoop.
Huge loss for the DeFi industry on what seems like a minor issue, but could end up being rather important ->
How do you give a DAO notice that it's being sued?
NDCA ruled today that service has been achieved in Ooki DAO. Concluded that CFTC can sue Ooki as an entity, not tech; &, broadly: "service was sufficient and [] Ooki DAO received actual notice of this litigation, so Ooki DAO should be able to appear and argue the merits."
At his side are Sullivan & Cromwell, one of the leading restructuring law firms, and Alvarez & Marsal, one of the leading restructuring advisory firms.
Ray's statements are given under penalty of perjury.
That is all to say, this is a Serious Investigation by Serious Adults.
Just finished an incredible book.
How did Adrian Hong go from being an idealistic Yale student who felt a need to help oppressed North Koreans to an international fugitive?
A gripping story, told with all the color and nuance it deserves. Great work
@bradleyhope
It's kinda crazy how national media outlets write 5 to 150 articles a day on gas prices, but barely ever cover insurance. I feel like some form of cognitive bias is at play.
Louisiana's insurer of last resort offloaded thousands of policies from unwitting homeowners to risky companies that went insolvent after Laura and Ida. Great reporting by
@MIKE_FINCH2
.
If you had an absurd amount of money and could spoil yourself with an unnecessary luxury what would it be?
I have a 30 minute commute daily so mine would be a driver. Basically the Lincoln Lawyer except I would just be taking naps in the backseat of my 4Runner.