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Sep 17, 2020 • 4 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
NEW: @realdonaldtrump’s businesses have charged the US government $1.1 million in private transactions — and Trump’s Bedminster club kept billing taxpayers for room rentals **even while it was closed** for covid. washingtonpost.com/politics/secre…
Heres the email from Trump Bedminster’s GM, announcing the club was closing for covid on 3/17/20.
And here are two bills, showing @realdonaldtrump’s club charging the Secret Service about $16,000 while the club was shuttered.
Why? Trump Org wouldn’t say.
We are still trying to prove @erictrump right! He said the Trump Org charges the US govt “like 50 bucks” for hotel rooms.

But no luck so far!
We’ve looked at 100s of bills, and not found a single one that matches Eric Trump’s claim. The rates were all higher, up to $650/night.
Here are the questions we sent @realdonaldtrump’s company for this story. Note #1– If they have *any* evidence to back up their claim to charge taxpayers super-cheap rates, I want to see it!

(Trump Org didn’t respond to these questions. I’ll let you know if they do.)

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Mar 18
THREAD:

@doge's "Wall of Receipts" is one month old this week. But the largest item on that list has always been wrong.

Here's how:
When the Wall of Receipts was first posted, @elonmusk's group said its largest savings was an $8 billion cut at ICE.

But that was a typo in government records. DOGE reduced the savings to $8 million, then zero. Image
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@elonmusk Then @doge said its largest savings had come from terminating a USAID contract worth $655 million.

But they had triple-counted the same cancellation, and also greatly over-estimated what that cancellation was worth. That savings, too, was eventually reduced to $0. Image
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May 15, 2023
A group of nonprofits raised $89M to help cops, veterans & firefighters.

What happened to the $?

They obscured the answer by breaking it into 135,000 pieces: a blizzard of tiny transactions, routed thru addresses in 10 states.

We found it, anyway.

nytimes.com/interactive/20…
LISTEN: We got recordings of the robo-calls these groups used to raise money. They use computers that sound just like middle-aged cops -- complete with corny mother-in-law jokes.

Do any of these voices sound familiar?

nytimes.com/interactive/20…
These calls often began with a kind of pre-programmed guilt trip, delivered via Dad joke. "You know, you're harder to catch than a rabbit on roller skates!"

Now a computer has made you feel sheepish about not answering its calls.

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Jul 7, 2022
My latest story on the nonprofit beat was about a screamingly obvious scam that still fooled the IRS 76 times.

I wanted to explain how I found that story -- with a lot of help from you. 1/

nytimes.com/2022/07/03/us/…
The original tip about this story came on my first day at the @nytimes, when I asked you all for story ideas about nonprofits.

You sent 700 of them. 2/
Many of you suggested The Human Fund or Hogwarts (A nonprofit practically *dedicated* to child endangerment, tho sadly magical and outside my beat).

One tip came from @NatlCouncilNPs -- pointing me toward the IRS, and their fast-track process for approving new nonprofits. 3/
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Apr 21, 2022
I’m a reporter at the @nytimes covering nonprofits. I didn’t choose this beat b/c I think all nonprofits are hiding something!

I chose it b/c nonprofits are strongly trusted but weakly policed.

So they might be a good place *to* hide something, if you wanted....1/
My first story was about people allegedly hiding fraud.

In MN, the FBI alleged that a group of nonprofits exploited lax oversight to claim millions of government dollars they didn't deserve... 2/
nytimes.com/2022/03/08/us/…
Today’s story is from Houston, where the nonprofit Crime Stoppers has a huge amount of trust & influence (take it from a HOU native!).

They've now jumped into a political debate about crime -- lauding the GOP gov, and blaming elected Dem judges.... 3/
nytimes.com/2022/04/21/us/…
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Mar 8, 2022
I’m an investigative reporter for the @nytimes, writing about nonprofits.

This is my first story, and it sums up so much of what drew me to the nonprofit beat. 1/
First, it shows the huge amount of money that flows through the nonprofit sector — one small nonprofit in Minnesota handled $197 million in just 1 year! Even tho it’s own nonprofit status was listed as revoked and its board president said he was tricked into taking the job. 2/
Second, it shows the lax oversight of nonprofits — where a promise not to make a profit gets you a trust others don’t get.

This is an extreme example — in MN, the state said it suspected fraud at a nonprofit, but found itself unable to stop paying it. It had to wait on the FBI.
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Feb 15, 2022
WHAT HAPPENED TO $246 MILLION?

The FBI says it’s found a “massive fraud” centered on a nonprofit in MN. The group had received $246M in federal aid to feed hungry kids.

I’m an investigative reporter covering nonprofits. Here’s what I want to know — and how you can help…
I found this story by reading the great @StarTribune coverage of the FBI’s raids last month.

I want to know how anyone could lose track of *that* much money — even during a pandemic, when money was flowing fast and oversight became more difficult.

startribune.com/fbi-investigat…
I’ve started by pulling every document I can find: IRS filings, search warrants, court records, state databases of food-aid spending.

What I want is a timeline, of what happened when, and a full financial picture of this nonprofit.
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