Every year, a lottery determines who gets an H-1B visa to work in the US. The game, it turns out, is rigged. Outsourcing and staffing firms are exploiting loopholes, crowding out US employers and immigrants who play it fair. We have exclusive data to show it for the 1st time 🧵

NEW: Secret Bundlers, Sham Donations: Adams Is Faulted in Campaign Audit w/Jay Root The New York Times A 900-page draft audit of Eric Adams’s 2021 mayoral campaign found widespread errors that could lead to fines and forfeiture of public matching funds. shorturl.at/nQaRO

Mayor Eric Adams’s chief counsel told reporters yesterday that the city was working to address FOIL delays. Today I got another extension for my request for the mayor’s schedules from *last September.* Fabien Levy can you release these proactively since there’s a logjam?

New investigation from Michael Rothfeld and me: Shen Yun is an international juggernaut, touring on five continents with holdings of more than $265 million. But for the young dancers and musicians who powered the show, the success has come at a steep cost. nytimes.com/2024/08/15/nyr…

We’re thrilled to welcome Jeremy Singer-Vine as our new data editor. nytco.com/press/jeremy-s…

Every year, 000s of Nigerian girls are trafficked across West Africa for sex work - some as young as 13 with madams as young as 23. In July, I met dozens of them in multiple jungle camps deep in the Ivorian interior & prisons near the Malian border. theguardian.com/global-develop…

Big The New York Times investigation: A leading chain of psychiatric hospitals is luring patients in and then refusing to release them, even when detaining them is not medically justifiable. Jessica Silver-Greenberg 🕵🏻‍♀️ Katie Thomas Virginia Hughes nytimes.com/2024/09/01/bus…

New: A security firm once owned by a top aide of Eric Adams received a $154 million contract this year to provide “emergency fire watch services" at public housing buildings in New York w/ William K. Rashbaum Dana Rubinstein Bianca Pallaro nytimes.com/2024/09/20/nyr…

For months Bianca Pallaro, Yoav Gonen haidee.bsky.social + I investigated alleged “straw” donations given to Eric Adams’ campaign—including Turkish ones at the heart of this indictment. His team said it had no knowledge of wrongdoing—but the feds say they knew: thecity.nyc/2023/11/03/fbi…

NEW: For months, Jay Root Bianca Pallaro Mike Forsythe 傅才德 Emma G. Fitzsimmons and I investigated Winnie Greco's ties to the Chinese government. In interviews, photos, documents, and posts, we found examples of how the top Adams aide guided the mayor toward pro-Beijing narratives. A1 today:

It's official.

IMPACT 🚨 F.B.I. Agents Investigate Use of Fake Donors in N.Y. Assembly Race The inquiry follows our reporting questioning the validity of more than $162,000 in matching funds given to Dao Yin, a Democrat of Queens. w/ Jay Root William K. Rashbaum nytimes.com/2024/11/23/nyr…

F.B.I. Agents Investigate Use of Fake Donors in N.Y. Assembly Race - belatedly tweeting this news , which followed a NYT investigation. Jay Root Bianca Pallaro William K. Rashbaum nytimes.com/2024/11/23/nyr…

Here’s the original investigation into Mayor Adams, the reverend and the developer with door knocking and research from Bianca Pallaro haidee.bsky.social and April Xu: theguardian.com/us-news/articl…

How a Criminal With Close Ties to China Became a New York Power Broker - with ⁦Jay Root⁩ ⁦Bianca Pallaro⁩ ⁦Benjamin Weiser⁩ nytimes.com/2024/12/09/nyr…

For years a #Brooklyn powerbroker named John Chan has played an outsized role in New York politics. His ties to the Chinese Communist Party were not a secret. His criminal past was. Today we revealed it (w/Mike Forsythe 傅才德, Bianca Pallaro & Benjamin Weiser) nytimes.com/2024/12/09/nyr…

Mayor Adams Is Denied Public Money for His Re-election Campaign with Bianca Pallaro: nytimes.com/2024/12/16/nyr…

Chinese man who prosecutors say was at center of an effort to influence local politics in CA was charged with acting as an illegal foreign agent over his role in getting someone elected to a City Council position nytimes.com/2024/12/19/us/… w/ Mike Forsythe 傅才德 and Bianca Pallaro

JUST POSTED: Two of NYC Eric Adams's top fund-raisers are under federal investigation for ties to the Chinese government. Scoop by Bianca Pallaro Jay Root William K. Rashbaum and me.

Adams’s Associates Under Federal Investigation Over Ties to China by Bianca Pallaro Jay Root Mike Forsythe 傅才德 William K. Rashbaum nytimes.com/2025/03/18/nyr…