🚨🚨🚨SCOOP: New whistleblower docs show Jane Roberts, who is married to SCOTUS Chief Justice John Roberts, made $10.3 million placing lawyers at elite firms —
Mattathias Schwartz
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Mattathias Schwartz
@Schwartzesque
Philadelphia
Joined January 2013
- NEW: Hunter Biden asked for a retainer of, um, $2 million per year, plus 'success fees', to help unfreeze money belonging to the Libyan govt. This was 2015, while his father was still VP. Read the emails here...
- tfw you live in a country where health care is a luxury goodWhy was Covid impact so much larger in US?
- I wrote about George W. Bush's 3-hour interview with the 9/11 Commission. A rough transcript was kept secret for almost 20 years. Why? 🧵/1
- Replying to @SchwartzesqueClick on the story to see the line-item spreadsheet of her commissions. At least one of the firms that paid Jane Roberts — WilmerHale — later argued before SCOTUS. John Roberts did not recuse, and voted in favor of WH’s client.
- NEW: I spoke with two ex-CIA officials who gave a blow-by-blow account of how the Bush administration misrepresented their intel and knowingly lied to the US public.
- Replying to @SchwartzesqueKudos to @saletan for flagging these new disclosures, which I would have otherwise missed. Read his full story on them here:
- I went to Paul Manafort's apartment. Ate my first ham sandwich. Got him to admit for the first time that he passed Trump campaign data to a suspected Russian asset. Here are 8,000 words about it, no paywall...
- Impressed by the rate at which the most meritorious members of our society continue to accrue more meritNew CBO report: The poorest *half* of America -- ~150 million people -- hold only *2 percent* of the country's total wealth Wealth of top 10 percent has grown markedly since 1989 That tiny little line at the bottom of this chart is half the country
- We've updated our Hunter Biden story with email hard copies, which are *not* from the laptop, and have been *independently confirmed*. The emails show that @JoeBiden's son asked for $2 million to help unfreeze money belonging to the Libyan government. businessinsider.com/new-emails-rev…
- 🚨🚨🚨 SCOOP 🚨🚨🚨 Exclusive: A veteran FBI agent told Congress that investigations into Giuliani and other Trump allies were 'suppressed' @thisisinsider interviews new FBI whistleblower and obtained the leaked disclosure they made to Senate Judiciary
- so Giuliani's accuser has access to 23,000 Giuliani emails, including emails from Trump and family
