Eric Umansky
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Jeffrey Epstein Was a Sex Offender. The Powerful Welcomed Him Anyway.
Mike McIntire, Vanessa Friedman - Nytimes.com 4d 32 tweets
Mr. Epstein served time a decade ago. When he returned to New York, he staged a comeback campaign among the elite.
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Eric Umansky The best parenthetical. 3d
Jeffrey Epstein Was a ‘Terrific Guy,’ Donald Trump Once Said. Now He’s ‘Not a Fan.’
Maggie Haberman - Nytimes.com 8d 28 tweets
Through a mutual appreciation of wealth, women and years of occupying adjacent real estate in Palm Beach and on Page Six, the lives of the two men routinely intersected for decades.
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Eric Umansky You’d think Alan Dershowitz would pass when the NYT called for a quote. But no. 8d
History of U.S. Gov't Bailouts
Eric Umansky - ProPublica 23d 1 tweets
Trump’s War on Worker Rights
Nytimes.com 44d 7 tweets
The administration is making life easier for business owners and harder for workers.
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Eric Umansky Our government, at work. 42d
How Payday Lenders Spent $1 Million at a Trump Resort — and Cashed In
ProPublica 42d 10 tweets
At the Trump Doral outside Miami, payday lenders celebrated the potential death of a rule intended to protect their customers. They couldn’t have done it without President Donald Trump and his latest deregulator, Kathleen Kraninger.
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Eric Umansky Back in the day, industries had to *work* to curry favor with the govt. Now they can just pay the president. Like the predatory payday loan industry. w / 42d
Decade in the Red: Trump Tax Figures Show Over $1 Billion in Business Losses
Nytimes.com 71d 130 tweets
Newly obtained tax information reveals that from 1985 to 1994, Donald J. Trump’s businesses were in far bleaker condition than was previously known.
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Eric Umansky Oh look, there's also more evidence of lying about donating to charities. 71d
How Taxpayers Covered a $1,000 Liquor Bill for Trump Staffers (and More) at Trump’s Club
Derek Kravitz - ProPublica 77d 25 tweets
A top-shelf, closed-door drinking session. $546-a-night hotel rooms. A special government credit card for Mar-a-Lago. Taxpayers foot the costs — and the president profits.
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Eric Umansky Picture it: Around Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Mar-a-Lago, some folks head to the bar, including Bannon. They kick out bartender. They drink. 54 glassses. (Bannon says he doesn’t.) They leave, w/o getting bill. So who paid? You. 77d
Saudi Fugitives Accused of Serious Crimes Get Help to Flee While U.S. Officials Look the Other Way
ProPublica 82d 4 tweets
The FBI, Department of Homeland Security and other agencies have known for years that Saudi diplomats were helping Saudi fugitives. But Washington avoided even raising the problem out of concern that it might hurt Saudi cooperation in the fight...
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Eric Umansky Saudia Arabia has been systematically spiriting its students out of the U.S. after they've been arrested for rape, manslaughter & other crimes. Literally, breaking their ankle bracelets & flying them out. What is the admin doing about it? Not much. 80d
TurboTax Deliberately Hides Its Free File Page From Search Engines
Justin Elliott - ProPublica 82d 18 tweets
The makers of TurboTax as well as H&R Block promised the IRS to offer free filing for many Americans. But they’re keeping Google from seeing it.
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Eric Umansky New: is deliberately hiding its actually free version from Google search. We have the code. By . 82d
TSA Agents Say They’re Not Discriminating Against Black Women, But Their Body Scanners Might Be
ProPublica 91d 9 tweets
The full-body scanners at airports across the country frequently give false alarms for Afros, braids, twists and other hairstyles popular among black women.
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Eric Umansky Those fancy full-body scanners at airports are frequently giving false alarms for black women with Afros, twists, and braids. Then TSA agents give the women “hair patdowns.” Helluva story by & . 91d
Emboldened by His Attorney General, Trump Confronts Mueller Report Head-On
Nytimes.com 94d 13 tweets
The president’s plan of attack is to act as if the report itself is extraneous to his attorney general’s brief letter, aides said.
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Eric Umansky Trump has pushed the idea of sending immigrant detainees to sanctuary cities, "in part, people close to him said, to distract from the Mueller report." 94d
Assange's fetid lair: Squalid horror drove embassy to kick him out 
Mail Online 96d 2 tweets
EXCLUSIVE: Photos of Julian Assange's 'dirty protests' at the Ecuadorian embassy have been revealed. He left soiled underpants in the toilet in a fit of rage a few weeks ago.
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Eric Umansky “When Assange wanted to be unpleasant he put excrement on the walls and underwear with excrement in the lavatory. We had to remind him to flush the toilet and clean the dishes.” -Ecuador’s UK ambassador. 96d
Congress Is About to Ban the Government From Offering Free Online Tax Filing. Thank TurboTax.
Justin Elliott - ProPublica 99d 33 tweets
A bill supported by Democrats and Republicans would make permanent a program that bars the IRS from ever developing its own online tax filing service.
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Eric Umansky Two facts: 1. H&R Block and the makers of TurboTax spent $6.6 million lobbying last year. They want to ban the IRS from offering its own free, simple tax filing service. 2. Congress is about to pass a law doing exactly that. 99d
More Top Homeland Security Officials Set to Leave in Trump Purge
Nytimes.com 100d 11 tweets
Since Friday, five senior Department of Homeland Security officials have been told to exit or otherwise stepped aside as President Trump rails against U.S. immigration laws.
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Eric Umansky So an official got fired for FOLLOWING THE LAW. 99d
The IRS Tried to Take on the Ultrawealthy. It Didn’t Go Well.
ProPublica 103d 21 tweets
Ten years ago, the tax agency formed a special team to unravel the complex tax-lowering strategies of the nation’s wealthiest people. But with big money — and Congress — arrayed against the team, it never had a chance.
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Eric Umansky The IRS is just walking away from taxing the rich. 103d
“Happy to Do It”: Emails Show Current FAA Chief Coordinated With Ex-Lobbyist Colleagues on Policy
Derek Kravitz - ProPublica 112d 1 tweets
As he moved through the agency’s ranks, the now-acting FAA Administrator Dan Elwell exchanged dozens of emails with lobbyists and other industry players discussing everything from rolling backing back consumer protections to airport privatization.
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Eric Umansky Things the now FAA chief emailed with his former airline lobbyists colleagues about: -rolling back consumer protections of “service” fees. -“airport privatization” -thwarting govt research on the effects on deregulation We got the emails. 112d
Romanian Prime Minister Is Staying at Trump’s D.C. Hotel
Justin Elliott - ProPublica 114d 5 tweets
The stay is the latest example of Trump’s company doing business with foreign officials. Two attorneys general have sued Trump over the issue, accusing him of violating the Constitution.
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Eric Umansky 1. The Constitution bars the prez from accepting gifts or payments from foreign govts. Aka the emoluments clause. 2. The Organization won’t say which foreign govts are paying them, for what, or how much. 3. But it’s happening—like *tonight.* 113d
One conservative group’s successful infiltration of the media
Columbia Journalism Review 390d 2 tweets
<p>In editorials and juicy quotes to news organizations across the nation, restaurant workers are speaking up against paying tipped workers a minimum wage. Six restaurant workers, specifically. This group is the all-white board of an opaque 501(c)4...
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Eric Umansky 5/ Here’s a good story digging into the “Restaurant Workers of America,” including how it “regularly appears with restaurant industry trade groups and Republican politicians.” 114d
They Say They're Grassroots, But Others Call This Group AstroTurf
Claudia Koerner - BuzzFeed News 114d 1 tweets
Restaurant Workers of America has fought hard against raising salaries for tipped workers and has gotten advice from a powerful DC strategist.
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Eric Umansky 4/ And turns out, the “Restaurant Workers of America” has been getting advice from a big lobbying & PR firm organizing against the minimum wage increase. 114d
Join RWA
Restaurant Workers of America 114d 1 tweets
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Eric Umansky 3/ The “Restaurant Workers of America” is a *dark money group* -- aka a 501(c)4--meaning it doesn’t have to disclose its funding. Also, despite the name: It’s not just workers. How do I know all that? It’s on their website! 114d