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Ava Benny-Morrison

@avabmorrison

Bloomberg @business legal reporter covering SDNY | Author of The Lost Girls @HarperCollinsAU | @columbiajourn alum | [email protected] 🇦🇺 in 🇺🇸

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Interim Manhattan US Attorney Danielle Sassoon has resigned after she was ordered by the Justice Department to drop a corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams trib.al/fKF6gYG

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DOJ leadership has put all Public Integrity Section lawyers into a room with 1 hour to decide who will dismiss Adams indictment or else all will be fired. Sending them strength to stand by their oath, which is to support the Constitution, not the president’s political agenda. 🇺🇸

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One of the SDNY prosecutors on the Mayor Eric Adams case, Hagan Scotten, has resigned in an email to Acting DAG Emil Bove “…I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.”

One of the SDNY prosecutors on the <a href="/NYCMayor/">Mayor Eric Adams</a> case, Hagan Scotten, has resigned in an email to Acting DAG Emil Bove “…I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.”
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FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried sending up a flare to the White House via this jailhouse interview with The New York Sun? SBF claims he too was a victim of “politicization of the DOJ” and supported more Republican causes than people know. nysun.com/article/exclus…

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NEW: While Emil Bove was at SDNY, leaders of the office conducted an internal inquiry into his management of the terrorism unit. They initially concluded that he should be demoted from his position as co-chief, but never followed through with the demotion. politico.com/news/2025/02/2…

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Been covering the Epstein investigation for almost a decade. Nobody actually involved in the case knows what this purported “list” is that everyone on social media refers to. Most documents have already been made public through IG reports, criminal and civil trials, and

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Lawyers for ex Barclays boss Jes Staley argued that the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein had “the most remarkable network of contacts”, as they kicked off a court challenge against his lifetime ban from financial services Jonathan Browning bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg

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He was peacemaker at Apollo. Now he's gearing up for one of the hottest seats in American law as the sheriff of Wall Street. Sridhar Natarajan & I explore what a SDNY under Jay Clayton will look like as the office reels from DC’s handling of Eric Adams case bloomberg.com/news/features/…

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American war planning usually takes place in highly secure facilities. But the Trump administration planned its strikes on the Houthis using a group chat—and accidentally included The Atlantic’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg. theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has made an eleventh-hour bid to avoid the worst of US President Donald Trump’s trade strikes by enlisting the advice of one of the most influential Australians in Trump’s orbit, golf star Greg Norman. smh.com.au/politics/feder…

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Judge Dale Ho orders dismissal WITH prejudice of indictment against NYC Mayor Eric Adams. Judge said “everything here smacks of a bargain: dismissal of the indictment in exchange for immigration policy concessions.” Bloomberg

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A state judge in Wisconsin was arrested Friday by federal agents after an investigation into whether she obstructed an immigration arrest last week bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg Politics

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Luigi Mangione pleaded not guilty to federal murder charges that carry a possible death sentence in the shooting of a UnitedHealth Group executive bloomberg.com/news/articles/… #law

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Representatives for Indian billionaire Gautam Adani and his companies met Trump administration officials about dismissing the criminal charges levied against him in an overseas bribery probe with Tom Schoenberg and P. R. Sanjai bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg Politics

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Trump's embrace of his pardon powers has powerful people lining up with appeals, trying to use the president's personal grievances to their advantage. A look at the fees and strategies embraced in today’s feverish clemency market w/ Bill Allison bloomberg.com/news/features/… Bloomberg

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A pardon in the United States in 2025? That'll cost you $1 million. "It’s signed," Trump told one executive who'd been convicted of fraud. "You’re cleaner than a baby’s bottom, you’re cleaner than I am." The goods from Ava Benny-Morrison and Bill Allison bloomberg.com/news/features/…

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NEW: President Trump's policies and actions have been stopped by US courts more than 200 times. We've been tracking lawsuits from the moment he was sworn in, identifying at least 320+ by the start of May -- and more keep coming. A deep, deep dive into the data:

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Here's the biggest piece of journalism I’ve worked on in years: An atlas to the Trump family’s moneymaking. It’s all here. And even though it (sometimes) gets overshadowed by politics, it's important and it's vast. And it’s a gift link! bloomberg.com/features/2025-…

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Trump is granting pardons to reality television stars Todd and Julie Chrisley, who were convicted of fraud and tax evasion, the latest offer of clemency to prominent figures accused of white-collar crimes bloomberg.com/news/articles/…