Reporting on this latest installment by Max Abelson, @suryamattu.com me, Ava Benny-Morrison, Harry Wilson, @jeffkao.bsky.social and @dmehro.bsky.social

🚨 EXPLOSIVE NEW report based on the 18K emails @business obtained from Jeffrey Epstein's personal Yahoo account: new details about the academics, attorneys and media specialists who helped him—in different ways and to varying degrees 🧵 www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

NEW: Trump’s Border Czar Tom Homan Involved in Detention Contract Talks Despite Recusal Homan worked to move immigration detention contracts through the Department of Defense. Via Fola Akinnibi, Rachel Adams-Heard, and Sophie Alexander @bloomberg.com 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

☀️Congratulations to the 2025 Sunshine Award Winners! - Jason Leopold, Bloomberg - The Chicago Headline Club - St. Louis Public Radio, APM Reports and The Marshall Project 🔗Read the full press release: www.spj.org/spj-announce...

From the Feb 28 edition of my newsletter, FOIA Files The Story Behind FCC Chairman Brendan Carr’s Role in Project 2025 Docs provide a behind-the-scenes look at how Carr was tapped for the chapter on “FCC priorities”—and the swift ethics review that preceded it www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

FOIA Files Documents Reveal a Deluge of Threats Directed at FEMA Deadly hurricanes in Florida & North Carolina sparked an influx of online conspiracies, threats vs fed emergency workers, doxxing of govt officials @jasonleopold.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet... via @bloomberg.com

NEW: More than 500 pages of #FOIA docs @zhirji.bsky.social @davey.bsky.social & I obtained from FEMA detail previously unreported threats against personnel in the aftermath of Hurricanes Helene & Milton, including the swatting of then-FEMA Director Deanne Criswell 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

In @melissaryan.bsky.social's view, this political climate—in which public officials who try to provide transparency are politicized and attacked—is an even bigger obstacle than budget cuts in the fight against false claims. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

FEMA even hired cybersecurity firm ZeroFox to take down misinfo on social media, but the effort was cut short. House Republicans, led by Jim Jordan, were investigating tech companies for alleged censorship; after internal discussions, FEMA quickly ended all social media content removal requests

The new docs on hurricanes Helene and Milton reveal unreported details, including the doxxing of at least 7 senior FEMA staffers. The records also highlight how misinformation remains a major threat to the agency amid recent cuts to its staff and funding www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

NEW: Bloomberg obtained 100s of pages of agency emails & other docs via FOIA, shedding new light on how disaster-related misinfo affects the govt's emergency response, sucks up resources & puts staff at risk. with @zhirji.bsky.social @jasonleopold.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

SCOOP by @anthonycormier.bsky.social & Zach Mider Bessent once agreed to occupy 2 different houses as his “principal residence” at the same time, mortgage documents show — the same kind of contradictory pledges thatTrump has been using to try to oust Lisa Cook. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

FOIA alert 🚨🚨🚨 USAID (like DOE some months ago), is due to publish a notice that claims to mass cancel all #FOIAs submitted before Jan 20, unless the requester emails them. This is, once again, wildly illegal. public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-17820.pdf H/T Michael Ravnitzky

TONIGHT: @jasonleopold.bsky.social talks to @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com on The #LastWord at 10pm ET.

Weekend Read Epstein’s Inbox A trove of emails reveals Ghislaine Maxwell’s secrets. 🎁 LINK www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

NEW: A day before Jeffrey Epstein reported to jail in 2008, Ghislaine Maxwell sent him this email (it was sent by Maxwell when she said her role in his life at this time as “very, very diminished.”) Here's a 🎁 link to our investigation www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

NEW FOIA Files newsletter is out! This week's edition is about the Jeffrey Epstein emails @bloomberg.com obtained. Although the emails weren't obtained through a #FOIA request sharing some of the contents is in keeping with the spirit of my newsletter: transparency www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Want a peak behind the curtain related to our exclusive @business story on Peter Mandelson and Jeffrey Epstein's emails and what happened after @harrynwilson.bsky.social reached out to him? Read this 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

How @bloomberg.com Vetted the Epstein Emails Methods included cryptographic analysis, metadata analysis and corroboration with external sources. By the brilliant trio @jeffkao.bsky.social @suryamattu.com & @dhruvm.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Don't have time to read our 5K word investigative piece on Jeffrey Epstein's emails? Here are key takeaways www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

NEW: We got access to Jeffrey Epstein’s personal Yahoo inbox — more than 18,000 emails. It shows Epstein’s world in his own words: an unfiltered look at how his operation worked, who enabled it, and how Ghislaine Maxwell stayed at the center of it all.

EXCLUSIVE/BOMBSHELL: @bloomberg.com has obtained **18K** previously unreported emails from Jeffery Epstein's personal Yahoo account. The emails are disturbing & revelatory & reveal new details about Ghilaine Maxwell's role FREE to read www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

Story by Harry Wilson and me and a dream reporting team: @jeffkao.bsky.social Ava Benny-Morrison @suryamattu.com, Max Abelson and @dmehro.bsky.social

EXCLUSIVE: @bloomberg.com has obtained more than 100 previously undisclosed emails between UK Ambassador Peter Mandelson and Jeffrey Epstein from 2005 through 2010 that reveal Mandelson's steadfast support for Epstein after Epstein was charged with sex crimes 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

EXCLUSIVE: @bloomberg.com has obtained more than 100 previously undisclosed emails between UK Ambassador Peter Mandelson and Jeffrey Epstein from 2005 through 2010 that reveal Mandelson's steadfast support for Epstein after Epstein was charged with sex crimes 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

NEW FOIA Files newsletter is out! I'm resurfacing emails from my FOIA archives that I obtained in 2018 from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The emails are a reminder that Trump’s relationship w/BLS as it relates to employment data has long been acrimonious www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

"What the USDA Spent on the Huge Trump and Lincoln Banners" @jasonleopold.bsky.social for @bloomberg.com

SCOOP: USAID's IG concluded the agency failed to monitor whether Ukraine misused thousands of Starlink terminals that were delivered to the country after Russia’s invasion in 2022, according to an inspector general’s report obtained by @bloomberg.com 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Bad Religion - You Are (The Government) youtube.com/watch?v=G-5h...

Val Broeksmit was an FBI informant who tried to entrap me and frame me as Phineas Fisher. Along the way, he tried to hack and inform on his enemies, journalists and Epstein. This is his story.

For anyone who missed our lengthy investigative story on Luke Farritor and DOGE and is interested in reading it here's another 🎁 link www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

NEW FOIA Files newsletter is out! An index from an 8-year-old #FOIA lawsuit shows what's in FBI's Epstein files: bank and phone records, photographs, communications with foreign government agencies and other revealing material related to its 2006 investigation www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Yes, the future of the United States government was very much influenced by the decisions of a 23-year-old from Lincoln, Nebraska. But there is much more to the Luke Farritor story. One of @jacobfeldman.bsky.social & @dvnjr.bsky.social's top picks via @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

Thank you, @thesundaylongread.bsky.social, for making this @bloomberg.com @businessweek.bsky.social story a top pick for the week. And congratulations on your 500th edition! (Story by Susan Berfield, @margimurphy.bsky.social @jasonleopold.bsky.social)

To explain the FBI's rationale for using two privacy exemptions under the #FOIA to justify redacting Trump's name in the Epstein files I went on a deep dive and cited my own battles trying to obtain records on high profile public figures 🧵

@durbin.senate.gov on Trump's name being redacted in the Epstein files Trump, "has the power to unilaterally help fix this by consenting to the release of his name in the files to the public to fulfill the promises of Attorney General Bondi that the public would see the ‘full Epstein files.’”

From my 2018 #FOIA cache "Top officials at the Bureau of Labor Statistics expressed alarm over a tweet by President Donald Trump last month touting a jobs report before it was officially released, according to newly obtained emails." www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jaso...

Don't miss this other Epstein files related SCOOP in this week's newsletter related to the FBI's search and review of the files in March www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

NEW FOIA Files SCOOP: The FBI redacted Trump’s name—and the names of other prominent public figures—from the Epstein files under two privacy exemptions before DOJ & FBI concluded “no further disclosure” of the files “would be appropriate or warranted.” www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Well-reported & depressing piece about Luke Farritor and DOGE: www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

First off, this profile draws a little off my own coverage of DOGE but mostly from this terrific profile from Bloomberg, which you should read! Great investigative reporting! bsky.app/profile/jaso...

New, from me: Luke Farritor joined DOGE, answering the call of his "biggest hero" Elon Musk. His story reveals how the combination of know-nothing libertarianism combined with the political power of Silicon Valley is destroying our government. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/doges-will...

If you're hitting the paywall on our story about Luke Farritor -- DOGE-Pilles -- here is a gift link www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

Portrait of a Young DOGE Coder Dismantling America’s Institutions W/ @margimurphy.bsky.social and Susan Berfield

NEW investigation: DOGE-Pilled The full story on the transformation of 23 year-old Luke Farritor and how he ended up at the Department of Government Efficiency--slashing, dismantling, undoing--wielding a résumé that "didn’t pass muster” NO PAYWALL! www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

Yes, I did ask the FBI to conduct a search on "Ozzy Osbourne" as well

I filed a #FOIA request with FBI for any documents the bureau has on Ozzy Osbourne. FBI responded saying they conducted a search and did not locate any responsive records.

NEW FOIA Files newsletter is out! On his first day in office,Trump signed an EO for the name of North America's tallest peak Denali to revert back to Mount McKinley. More than 200 pages of docs I obtained via #FOIA reveal how that could be an uphill battle www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Zach Khan, a high school journalist, has a new investigation he's hoping you'll all read.

10 years ago today, my #FOIA work and me somehow landed on the front page of the NYT! I am still waiting on records from a bunch of my requests from back then.