For months the #NYS Senate refused to give the @nytimes the receipts senators must provide to get travel expenses like train fare reimbursed. @Biancapallaro & I got them anyway and they reveal serious oversight failures 3/ https://t.co/MIXtsjeI9z #NYpol#NYleg
When @biancapallaro & I requested travel vouchers for Sen. @jessicaramosqns & others, we repeatedly asked @NYSenate Secretary Alejandra Paulino for receipts that must accompany them for NYS senators seeking direct reimbursement. She has repeatedly refused. Here's an example:
Jessica Ramos, a New York state senator, has repeatedly used campaign funds to pay for travel expenses while billing taxpayers for the same charges, according to records and former staff members interviewed by The New York Times. https://t.co/ZyoyvhPwFf
While looking at the state travel reimbursements New York legislators get, my colleague @biancapallaro and I started noticing a trend: some were also simultaneously reporting lots of travel expenses on their campaign disclosures. 1/ https://t.co/zL6u1PaTGC
NEW🚨: “You hear the hard, gut-wrenching punches,” he said, “the screams, the ‘I’m sorrys,’ ‘I can’t breathes,’ ‘You’re going to kill me.’ You hear ‘Mom,’ & it gets quiet & you just keep hearing the thuds.”
My latest with @biancapallaro:
https://t.co/FIrvKLwNdC
🇺🇸 Restrained, Beaten And Suffocated Behind Bars
▫New York Prisons: As frustrations among corrections officer's mount, abusive treatment of inmates is rising and becoming more vicious
▫@Jan_Ransom@biancapallaro
▫https://t.co/BHIqsgifxv
#frontpagestoday#USA@nytimes
In today’s DealBook: @m_delamerced breaks down the corporate panic around the changes to H-1B visas; @martyswant on Google’s antitrust troubles; @nikogallogly + @biancapallaro on Mamdani’s Big Tech support; @vivwalt on Climate Week tensions; and more https://t.co/s0uYCsHuYv
JUST POSTED: How China Influences Elections in America’s Biggest City - a New York Times investigation with @byjayroot@biancapallaro@Fahrenthold
https://t.co/TLaznZbkrD via @NYTimes
Since lots of people are asking, my colleague @biancapallaro has a comment on the story explaining why the NYT published this info when it did.
Please take a read before jumping to your own conclusions >>
https://t.co/4oziNYiqEP
Breaking News: A close adviser to Mayor Eric Adams was suspended from his campaign after trying to give a journalist cash inside a potato chip bag. https://t.co/THdF2834Yi
JUST POSTED: Two of NYC Eric Adams's top fund-raisers are under federal investigation for ties to the Chinese government. Scoop by @biancapallaro@byjayroot@WRashbaum and me.
Chinese man who prosecutors say was at center of an effort to influence local politics in CA was charged with acting as an illegal foreign agent over his role in getting someone elected to a City Council position https://t.co/R8MlhoGfL0 w/ @PekingMike and @biancapallaro
For years a #Brooklyn powerbroker named John Chan has played an outsized role in New York politics. His ties to the Chinese Communist Party were not a secret. His criminal past was. Today we revealed it (w/@PekingMike, @biancapallaro & @BenWeiserNYT) https://t.co/USa8YQMxwZ
Here’s the original investigation into Mayor Adams, the reverend and the developer with door knocking and research from @biancapallaro@haideechu and @KEXU3:
https://t.co/x1Z9eqfmkE
F.B.I. Agents Investigate Use of Fake Donors in N.Y. Assembly Race - belatedly tweeting this news , which followed a NYT investigation. @byjayroot@biancapallaro@WRashbaum https://t.co/aGrVZJSRl5