Matt Smith
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San Francisco, CA, United States
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The ultimate test of Trump’s local cronyism is playing out in Beverly Hills
Los Angeles is digging a subway route under Beverly Hills High School. A local power player is counting on the president to kill it. → Read More
Feds sent immigrant kids to dangerous Texas youth facility, despite serious warning signs
Just as Texas stopped sending foster children to centers operated by one man, the U.S. government tossed him a new source of money: immigrant kids. → Read More
Feds Sent Immigrant Kids to Dangerous Texas Youth Facility, Despite Serious Warning Signs
Just as Texas stopped sending foster children to centers operated by one man, the U.S. government tossed him a new source of money: immigrant kids. → Read More
Judge orders government to release immigrant kids from troubled shelter
A federal judge rules that the government should remove immigrant kids from a troubled Texas facility and stop drugging them without consent. → Read More
Forced drugging: Migrant children’s accounts
Migrant children share chilling stories of emotional manipulation and physical abuse by youth facilities in statements from a recent lawsuit filing. → Read More
Immigrant children forcibly injected with drugs at Texas shelter, lawsuit claims
Children held at the Shiloh Treatment Center, a government contractor south of Houston that houses immigrant minors, described being held down and injected, according to federal court filings. → Read More
Immigrant children forcibly injected with drugs, lawsuit claims
This story was originally published by Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting, a nonprofit news organization based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Learn more at revealnews.org and subscribe to the Reveal podcast, produced with PRX, at revealnews.org/podcast. President Donald Trump’s zero tolerance policy is creating a zombie army of children forcibly injected with medications that… → Read More
Immigrant children forcibly injected with drugs, lawsuit claims
New legal filings show immigrant children in U.S. custody are subdued with powerful psychiatric drugs. → Read More
A small-time scam artist gave Trump a mansion for $0. Why?
A swirl of Beverly Hills transactions involving the future U.S. president defied the norms for high-end real estate deals. → Read More
Trump’s Interior Department is flooded with industry lobbyists
The roster includes former representatives for loggers, oil companies, mining firms and heavy agricultural water users. → Read More
Trump donors and appointees poised to profit off science agencies
The week’s roundup of conflicts in the Trump administration. → Read More
Sports teams are bigger Trump donors than oil and coal industries
The $14 million ranked fifth among interest groups giving money to Trump: more than oil ($8 million), coal ($6 million) and cars ($4 million). → Read More
Documents show first government payments to Trump’s business
Also in this week’s roundup: What happens when other people make money off of Trump and his aides need to pay their legal bills. → Read More
Inside the secret lobbying of Trump’s nominee for a top Interior spot
Internal emails also show just how much some lawmakers rely on lobbyists for help with the nuts-and-bolts tasks of lawmaking. → Read More
Trump’s Interior nominee dogged by questions over lobbying
A new complaint says Trump’s nominee for the No. 2 post at the Interior Department, David Bernhardt, violated the law by continuing to act as a lobbyist. → Read More
Trump nominee kept working with client after pledge to stop lobbying
Documents show that David Bernhardt maintained close contact with his client after testifying before Congress that he’d ceased lobbying. → Read More
Ivanka could help her company by softening her father’s trade policies
In the week’s roundup of Trump-related conflicts: What trade restrictions would do to the first daughter’s business, two ethics enforcers resign and Jared Kushner sued for not disclosing busi… → Read More
The private money that’s after Trump’s public infrastructure projects
It turns out some of the same Australians seeking new US infrastructure deals have already had their hands in a privatization project that was once a bane of former Indiana governor and current Vic… → Read More
Trump’s business conflicts cast a shadow over Middle East policy
The president’s new financial disclosure mentions at least two-dozen entities: LLCs, corporations and trusts where Trump was until recently an official which include the names of Persian Gulf… → Read More
Here are this week’s Trump-related financial conflicts
Secret lobbyists, payments from foreign governments, golf buddies and more. → Read More