THREAD📢: I got a call today from a guy named Parker in Massachusetts. He wanted to tell me about a phone call he’d received not too long ago from Support America’s Police PAC. The voice on the other end of Parker’s line was very persuasive. Aggressive. Convincing. The voice sounded like a human, but he realized after a while that he was talking to a very lifelike robot. supportleousa.org

1/ Quick update for you about Kecia and William Pollock (the latter is a Las Vegas police officer), who paid themselves about $150,000 b/w 2017 and June 2019 to run 4 PACs that raise money in the name of kids with cancer, police officers, firefighters, and people with ♥️ disease. 2/ In case you're curious, the Pollocks kept paying themselves after we published our story about them in September. They brought in just over $54K in the second half of 2019 from the four PACs. publicintegrity.org/politics/chari…

THREAD about that SCOOP from the politics folks here at @publicintegrity: Scott Mackenzie has been a major DC player in political fundraising for years - and his name has come up repeatedly in news stories about his tactics. publicintegrity.org/federal-politi… Today, @TheJusticeDept accused Mackenzie of filing "a number of materially false, fictitious and fraudulent statements and representations” to the FEC from 2011 to 2018 on behalf of two political action committees: Conservative StrikeForce and Conservative Majority Fund.

In our fifth "Abandoned in America" piece, this one by @publici's @lateshiabeachum, meet January Harris, who is employed full-time as a receptionist at a nonprofit. Harris struggles to pay her bills despite nine-hour work days and an hourly wage of $10.65. apps.publicintegrity.org/abandoned-in-a… Harris and her daughter live in a two-bedroom townhouse in St. Louis County, courtesy of HUD’s housing choice voucher program, commonly known as Section 8, a subsidy system that permits a person to locate and live in privately owned and operated property.