Mark Elliott
Now @EconMobility. Before: P/PV, @FordFoundation and NYC OMB. Loathe #280. #Mets, #Eagles, #LFC. Sax beginner. IG @markmobility
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A Pennsylvania County’s Election Day Nightmare Underscores Voting Machine Concerns
How “everything went wrong” in Northampton County.
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Mark Elliott
!!! Voting machines recorded 164 votes for Abe Kassis. Paper ballots showed he won the race with 26,142. nytimes.com/2019/11/30/us/… pic.twitter.com/I40qBfABpO
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Trump Fined $2 Million For Diverting Money From Vets Fundraiser to His Campaign
Generally speaking, it’s not great to take money meant for soldiers and use it for your political campaign instead.
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Mark Elliott
Trump got tremendous media attention for pardoning three soldiers, against the Pentagon's wishes. But here's how much he actually cares about soldiers -- he steals from them when it suits his own interests.
This time he got caught.
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Whistleblower in New Orleans hotel collapse is deported to Honduras
Delmer Joel Ramirez Palma reported safety lapses to supervisors before the Hard Rock hotel disaster that killed three
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Mark Elliott
Mr. Ramirez Palma reported safety lapses BEFORE the Hard Rock hotel collapse.
ICE arrested him after a TV interview.
He had lived in the U.S. for 18 years with his wife and children.
Despite his importance to the investigation, ICE just deported him.
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That Recruitment Letter From Harvard Probably Doesn’t Mean Much
Especially if you’re African-American, according to a new study.
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Mark Elliott
Researchers: Harvard is intentionally recruiting African American students who have no chance of getting in. Why? Well, it makes it look like they're trying.
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How Facebook’s Embed in the Trump Campaign Helped the President Win
James Barnes, who left Facebook this spring, said he is now dedicated to using the digital-ad strategies he employed on behalf of the Trump campaign to get the president out of office in 2020.
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Mark Elliott
Wow. @facebook extended a'large' line of credit to the Trump campaign during the 2016 campaign. And threatened that Trump would criticize Facebook publicly if it didn't meet its demands. | @dseetharaman wsj.com/articles/how-f… pic.twitter.com/vEFIrozu48
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Construction worker injured in New Orleans Hard Rock Hotel collapse faces deportation
A construction worker from Honduras injured during a Hard Rock Hotel collapse in New Orleans last month is now facing deportation according to his immigration lawyer, NOLA.com reported. Delmer Joel…
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Mark Elliott
Honduran construction worker injured in Hard Rock Hotel collapse is being held by ICE and could be deported Monday. He tried to warn supervisors about unsafe conditions before the collapse.
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How FedEx Cut Its Tax Bill to $0
The company, like much of corporate America, has not made good on its promised investment surge from President Trump’s 2017 tax cuts.
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Mark Elliott
In 2017, @FedEx owed more than $1.5 billion in taxes. The next year, it owed nothing.
It's one of nearly three dozen in the S&P 500 who pay no taxes or say the government owes them a refund.
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Navy SEALs Were Warned Against Reporting Their Chief for War Crimes
The Navy investigation of a highly decorated platoon leader who now faces court-martial found a subculture that prized aggression and protected wrongdoers.
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Mark Elliott
Yesterday, Trump pardoned Edward Gallagher over Pentagon objections:
- He shot a girl in a flower-print hijab who was walking with other girls.
- Stabbed a wounded teen to death as he was being treated by medics.
- Shot an unarmed man in a white robe.
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WSJ News Exclusive | Google’s Secret ‘Project Nightingale’ Gathers Personal Health Data on Millions of Americans
Google is teaming with one of the country’s largest health-care systems on a secret project to collect and crunch detailed health information of millions of Americans across 21 states.
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Mark Elliott
WTAF? Google is collecting personal data, including lab results, doctor diagnoses and hospitalization records, and amounts to a complete health history, with patient names and dates of birth. Neither doctors nor patients have been informed.
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Opinion: The Trump administration resettled zero refugees last month. That's not good
October was the first month in decades that the U.S. failed to resettle a single refugee, a stunning reversal of the nation’s longstanding role as the leading destination for people who, in effect, have no home to return to.
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Mark Elliott
For the first time in at least 30 years, the U.S. admitted 0 refugees in October. As in zero.
There are at least 70 million displaced people around the world.
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Students for Trump co-founder pleads guilty to $46,000 fraud scheme
The founder of Students for Trump pleaded guilty Tuesday to scamming consumers out of $46,000 by posing as a lawyer online and giving legal advice, federal prosecutors said.
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Mark Elliott
Amazing how many of Trump's clan are criminal. @TrumpStudents co-founder pleads guilty to a fraud scheme where he claimed to be a lawyer with 15 years of experience. He's 23. And faces up to 20 years in prison.
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Army Officer on White House Staff Reported Concerns on Trump’s Ukraine Dealings
The top Ukraine expert at the White House will tell impeachment investigators he twice reported concerns about President Trump’s pressure tactics on Ukraine, acting out of a “sense of duty.”
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Mark Elliott
Breaking: The top Ukraine expert at the White House will tell impeachment investigators he twice reported concerns about President Trump’s pressure tactics on Ukraine, acting out of a “sense of duty.”
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Thanks, Whistle-Blower, Your Work Is Done
Virtually every assertion he made has been corroborated on the record by the administration or other officials and witnesses.
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Mark Elliott
Trump keeps calling the whistleblower's complaint "fictitious" and "inaccurate". The truth is virtually every claim has been corroborated. | NYT Editorial Board
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After Fatal Shooting, City Pays $5.5 Million and Promotes Detective
It wasn’t the first time he had killed someone in the line of duty.
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Mark Elliott
John Collado tried to stop a fight between a friend and a stranger.
The stranger was an undercover NYPD cop.
Who, without a word, pulled out his gun and killed Collado.
A jury just awarded his widow $5.5m.
NYPD promoted the officer
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Florida Can’t Block Former Felons From Voting Because They Owe Money: Judge
Critics say Florida effectively approved a poll tax on voters.
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Mark Elliott
Great news! A federal judge ruled in favor of nearly 20 plaintiffs who challenged a Florida law saying they needed to repay financial obligations before voting again. huffpost.com/entry/florida-… # via @HuffPostPol
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Ohio Was Set to Purge 235,000 Voters. It Was Wrong About 20%.
When Ohio released a list of people it planned to strike from its voting rolls, around 40,000 people shouldn’t have been on it. The state only found out because of volunteer sleuthing.
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Mark Elliott
Ohio's purge of over 200,000 voters? It included the executive director of the League of Women Voters and 40,000 other active voters. She voted three times last year.
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Arizona Official Placed 29 Babies in Adoption Fraud Scheme, Prosecutors Say
Paul D. Petersen, Maricopa County’s assessor, arranged for women from the Marshall Islands to fly to the United States to give birth at taxpayers’ expense, prosecutors said.
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Mark Elliott
This story is wild. Elected official in Arizona paid pregnant women to fly to Arizona where they gave birth (at taxpayer expense). He then charged families $35,000 to adopt them.
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Trump's Ukraine call sparks new questions over intelligence chief's firing
The president removed Dan Coats days after his conversation with Zelenskiy and insisted that Coats’s deputy not get the job
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Mark Elliott
DNI Dan Coats was abruptly fired three days after the Zelensky call.
Why? The WH knew the Zelensky call immediately raised red flags among intelligence professionals.
This is just going to keep getting worse for Trump folks.
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Whistle-Blower Is a C.I.A. Officer Who Was Detailed to the White House
His complaint suggested he was an analyst by training with an understanding of Ukrainian politics.
Donald Trump Actually Has 2 Whistleblowers To Worry About
Don't forget the whistleblower alleging possible interference with the IRS audit of the president's tax returns.
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Mark Elliott
Yo, there's a second whistleblower, who alleges Trump tried to interfere with the IRS audit of his taxes.
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