My NYT colleague James Glanz @jamesglanz & I got to know Les very well now 20 years ago, in the aftermath of the WTC attacks, as he (and we) struggled with ?s re whether the structural design of WTC towers was a factor in their collapse that terrible day nytimes.com/2021/02/11/nyr…

Here was the critical question...

In researching this question, James Glanz and I dug very deep--turning up some extraordinary primary documents showing that this topic was in fact discussed before the WTC was built. Including this document from 1964, as NYT was even then involved in the debate.

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Eric Lipton

@EricLiptonNYT

28 Jan

NEW: After the presidency, the Trump hotel in Washington is a limited draw. (with better link) nytimes.com/live/2021/01/2…

Here are some more photos from my visits on Tuesday and Saturday. I was the only customer (ordered a Coke) in the lobby on Saturday.

Here is my short clip from Saturday, Jan 23.

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Eric Lipton

@EricLiptonNYT

25 Jan

JUST POSTED: In its final days, Trump's Treasury Dept quietly rollback sanctions imposed in 2017 on billionaire Israeli businessman Dan Gertler for what Treasury itself called "corrupt mining & oil deals" in Africa. Dershowitz served as his lobbyist nytimes.com/2021/01/24/us/…

@TheSentry_Org

Here is the key document, which was turned up by @TheSentry_Org, a group that "follows the dirty money connected to African war criminals and transnational war profiteers" int.nyt.com/data/documentt…

So what did Gertler do to get himself on this sanctions list? Just ask TRUMP's own Treasury Department, which imposed the sanctions in the first place, before this last-minute move to roll them back, after lobbyists intervened.

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Eric Lipton

@EricLiptonNYT

22 Jan

@JesseDrucker

Know I've been tweeting a lot abt Trump pardons. Convinced this was one of most extraordinary abuses of pardon power in US history. Determined not to let this be lost to rush of news. Here r some of our stories. Please read/retweet @JesseDrucker @kenvogel nytimes.com/2020/12/24/us/…

@kenvogel

Why would Trump pardon nearly a dozen former elected officials convicted of extraordinary range of bribe taking/corruption/stealing money? It is a way for Trump to give the finger to law enforcement in the U.S. @kenvogel nytimes.com/2021/01/20/us/…

@kenvogel

LOBBYING BONANZA: The president’s allies have collected tens of thousands of dollars — and potentially much more — from people seeking pardons. A free for all of cash/access/special favors as Trump era wraps up. @kenvogel @nytmike nytimes.com/2021/01/17/us/…

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Eric Lipton

@EricLiptonNYT

22 Jan

MEDICARE FRAUD CASE STUDY # 3 JUDITH NEGRON also of Florida. (That Trump let out of jail & terminated $87 million restitution to taxpayers) Bribes to patient "brokers" Altered patient files/therapist notes to fake treatments Signed files as though she had been in 2 places at once

"Executed one of the largest and most brazen health care fraud conspiracies" "This massive fraud was committed by manipulating the proper treatment of Alzheimer’s and dementia patients, brain damaged individuals, and substance abusers seeking treatment." !!

Sought payments on patients like this: "One such patient, Ruth Herrera, was in a neuro-vegetative state, but Negron yelled her name into her ear until she lifted her head, at which point Negron, a licensed therapist, supervisor, and owner, declared Ms. Herrera qualified"

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