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Max Abelson
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I report on money and power for @Business and sometimes @BW
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    Max Abelson
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    Feb 13
    NEW: Epstein’s relationship with the billionaire Leon Black was unlike any other. Here’s our story about an angry mistress, another woman, the IRS, the KGB, threats, demands, high art, family and Michael Clayton. Please read and share this gift link
    The Leon Black Files: Epstein Was a Fixer for Billionaire’s Deepest Secrets
    From bloomberg.com
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    Max Abelson
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    Jun 6, 2023
    A real thing in the White Plains hospital
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    Max Abelson
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    Jul 14, 2020
    On the day the pandemic started, I called a Wall Street billionaire. "What the fuck, I'm not worried," he said. I kept calling as hundreds of thousands died and millions lost jobs. Here in @BW is what I heard. Please read it
    Covid Conversations With One of America’s Richest Men
    From bloomberg.com
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    Max Abelson
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    Jun 24, 2021
    June 24, 1986: Trump lawyer Roy Cohn disbarred June 24, 2021: Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani disbarred
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    Max Abelson
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    Jul 23, 2019
    The White House just told reporters it's going to end food stamp benefits for 3 MILLION AMERICANS. That will apparently save $2.5 billion per year. Consider this: Trump's tax cuts will hand millionaires something like $37 billion this year alone.
    Trump Administration Moves to End Food Stamps for 3 Million People
    From bloomberg.com
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    Max Abelson
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    Mar 17, 2021
    Come with us! Take a grand tour of Donald Trump's shrinking fortune and ailing empire. Financial filings show he's down to $2.3 billion and getting walloped by the pandemic. A big new one from @sooo__phie & me
    Inside Trump’s Ailing Business Empire
    From bloomberg.com
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    Max Abelson
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    Sep 28, 2020
    Let's take a moment to celebrate @susannecraig. She was a badass Wall Street reporter, then she became a badass investigative reporter who dropped the '95 Trump bombshell in 2016, and then the bigger Trump family expose two years later, and now this one. A model for us all
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    Max Abelson
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    Apr 8, 2023
    Oh come on! Everybody’s got some Third Reich linen in the closet. Or a Hitler painting. Or a second Hitler painting. And a signed copy of Mein Kampf. Also statues of dictators in the backyard, sometimes
    Clarence Thomas’s Billionaire Benefactor Collects Hitler Artifacts - Washingtonian
    From washingtonian.com
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    Max Abelson
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    Jan 23, 2019
    Inequality in one picture: Billionaire Ken Griffin just spent $122 million on a UK mansion. A few days later, he spends $238 million on a penthouse in NYC. Nothing here has ever sold for *half* that. And he spent $300 million on houses from 2013 to 2015 bloom.bg/2FKDcld
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    Max Abelson
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    Jan 21, 2022
    A long time ago, I stumbled on one of the greatest music lists I'd ever seen, a ranking made by a teenager named Snoopy in 1977 of the 125 best dub reggae albums. Last year, I found Snoopy. Here's our interview about one of history's sweetest musical eras
    dubreggae
    From dubreggae.tumblr.com
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    Max Abelson
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    Mar 31, 2020
    Good god: A 43-year-old man in Brooklyn named Baruch Feldheim was allegedly selling N95 masks and medical supplies to doctors and nurses at a 700% markup. @ZekeFaux reports that when FBI agents arrived he coughed on them
    Suspected Mask Profiteer Arrested for Coughing on FBI Agents
    From bloomberg.com
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    Max Abelson
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    Apr 10, 2019
    Here's @AOC questioning the men who run Wall Street's biggest banks: "I represent kids that go to jail for jumping a turnstile because they can't afford a Metrocard. Do you think that more folks should have gone to jail for their role in the financial crisis?"
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    Max Abelson
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    Jul 14, 2020
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    In some ways it's nuts to pass the microphone right now to someone so rich and cozy. But the vast gap between the elite and the rest of us kept growing after the last crisis. These phone calls help show what it sounds like as that gap gets bigger
    Covid Conversations With One of America’s Richest Men
    From bloomberg.com
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    Max Abelson
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    Jun 3, 2020
    This should be bigger news
    One-Third of America’s Record Unemployment Payout Hasn’t Arrived
    From bloomberg.com