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What followed at the state capitol astounded Jordan. “Giuliani took control of what felt like a mini-trial,” she recalled. He claimed that the Presidential election had been stolen from Trump, in part through election fraud in Georgia. He referred to “smoking gun” evidence of unmonitored vote counting, and of machines switching votes to Joe Biden—claims that Jordan, who as an an attorney had helped oversee the election locally, knew were bogus. Then a lawyer on Giuliani’s team played surveillanc…
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She picked up the phone, and, on the other end, she heard Mona’s voice wailing and repeating the words “I can’t do it, I can’t do it.” “I thought she was trying to tell me that some horrible tragic thing had happened,” Robin told me. Mona and her husband, Bob, are in their seventies. She’s a retired party planner, and he’s a dentist. They spend the warm months in Bethesda, Maryland, and winters in Boca Raton, where they play pickleball and canasta. Robin’s first thought was that there had been a…
2 months ago
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Willis had hired a special prosecutor named Nathan Wade, in November of 2021, to lead the case, which she’d launched in February of that year. But when Arora dug into his background, last fall, he thought that Wade had an oddly thin résumé for someone working on such a high-profile case. Wade had spent his career as a private defense lawyer, often fighting misdemeanor charges, and later as a municipal-court judge. He’d never worked on a racketeering case. “He really didn’t appear qualified to le…
3 months ago
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Timmy was arranging a drug deal with a man named Rufus—another pseudonym—who was locked up elsewhere in Georgia. Rufus needed meth to sell, and Timmy said that he knew a supplier in another prison. Timmy phoned the supplier and got a price, then called back Rufus, who said the price was fine and warned Timmy that the buyer was dangerous.
Timmy handed the phone back to Cyrus, who considered what he’d learned. The handoff would take place in a parking lot north of Atlanta. The buyer would have ten…
3 months ago
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Beginning on December 3, 2020, during a hearing before the Georgia State Senate, and continuing to the present day, Giuliani has claimed that Freeman and Moss—to quote just a few passages of the fable—participated in a “heist” of the 2020 Presidential election, “passing around USB ports as if they were vials of heroin or cocaine,” which they used “to infiltrate the crooked Dominion voting machines.” As evidence, he shared edited surveillance footage from State Farm Arena, in Atlanta, where the t…
5 months ago
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Battle flags are particularly sought after by collectors. They “literally marked the battle lines, where soldiers from the North and South died by the tens of thousands,” Robert K. Wittman, who founded the F.B.I.’s art-crime team, writes in “Priceless: How I Went Undercover to Rescue the World’s Stolen Treasures.” A particularly valuable flag was stolen in the nineteen-eighties from the Atlanta Historical Society—now the Atlanta History Center—where Erquitt worked as a curator. It had been hands…
6 months ago
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Federal prosecutors allege that Menendez, the Democrat who formerly chaired the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, and his wife, who has also been indicted, received around half a million dollars in cash, along with some gold bars and a Mercedes-Benz C-300 convertible, in exchange for acting on behalf of the government of Egypt. Between 2018 and 2022, the Senator reportedly provided “sensitive, non-public” U.S. government information to Egyptian officials; one key player apparently referred…
7 months ago
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By then, Powell, along with Trump, Flynn, and others, had a new cause: proving that the 2020 Presidential election had been stolen. Powell appeared on Fox News and insisted that the Dominion Voting Systems elections software, used in more than half the country, had been manipulated. “They were flipping votes in the computer system, or adding votes that did not exist,” she said. She repeated the claim later that November, during an infamous press conference at the Republican National Committee he…
7 months ago
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After the 2020 election, Wood moved from Atlanta to Tomotley, a thousand-acre plantation in Yemassee, South Carolina, which he’d bought for about eight million dollars. A broker called it “the most significant property that has sold in years in South Carolina” and mentioned its excellent duck and quail hunting. Tomotley seemed an odd choice for Wood. “I don’t hunt,” he said recently, by phone. “I don’t fish. I don’t farm.” He went on, “But I obeyed what I felt like God wanted me to do.” The Lord…
7 months ago
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Whatever hope remains for the Georgia congresswoman’s many detractors seems to depend on either a new lawsuit or a candidate who’s been called “Marjorie with a brain.”
about 2 years ago
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Charlie Munger, a Warren Buffett crony, donated two hundred million dollars to a university for a gigantic new dorm. The catch: no windows. How did guinea pigs in a similar Munger housing experiment fare?
over 2 years ago
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Amateur sleuths have speculated that the fugitive is on the run on the Appalachian Trail—bad news for the archetypical long-distance hiker: skinny, pale, bald, and bearded.
over 2 years ago
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The deadline to register new voters for the runoffs was a few weeks away. Early voting would begin on December 14th and end December 31st. The New Georgia Project planned to knock on roughly a million doors in metro Atlanta and another million in the state’s rural areas. The incumbents, David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, “do not give a damn about the fact that Black folks are dying at an alarming clip in our state,” Ufot said. (Neither senator responded to multiple interview requests.) Health disp…
over 3 years ago
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They have helped tip the historically red state to Joe Biden—in a race still too close to call.
over 3 years ago
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“I like chaos. I thrive in it”: a Georgia lawyer with too much time on his hands and ties to the G.O.P. describes how he used twenty fake Twitter accounts to disseminate political disinformation.
over 3 years ago
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B. C. Rogers began hiring Latino immigrants to work in its plants in the late seventies, but few of those early hires stuck around. In the early nineties, John Rogers saw a TV news report about high unemployment among Latinos in Miami and decided to recruit them to Morton, Echiburu said. The company set up a small office in the Miami area, and Rogers sent Echiburu there as a company representative. “The only reason he asked me was because I spoke the language,” Echiburu said. “I wasn’t in human…
over 4 years ago
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Thomas Hofeller, who died in August, at the age of seventy-five, was raised in San Diego and served in the Navy during the Vietnam War. In the early eighties, after completing a doctorate in political science at Claremont Graduate University, he became the R.N.C.’s data-operations manager. In that position, he began to grasp how the redrawing of political maps could usher in a sweeping tide of Republican power in state legislatures. Congressional redistricting became his specialty; the Times obi…
almost 5 years ago
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Stacey Abrams has called the LIFE Act—which passed by one vote—“scientifically unsupportable” and “evil.” The A.C.L.U. of Georgia plans to fight it in court. Earlier this month, some three dozen protesters wearing black held a mock funeral on the third floor of the state capitol, for the seats of lawmakers who supported it. “We were carrying funerary flowers and clipboards identifying each district we’ll work to recall,” Brittany Eames, a twenty-nine-year-old health-nonprofit worker, said.
A few…
about 5 years ago
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Tom Feran took a job at the Plain Dealer—“the best newspaper name of any in the world,” Winston Churchill once said—nearly thirty-seven years ago. At the time, the paper had some four hundred staffers. Feran, who grew up reading the paper, began as the editor of its Sunday magazine, back when the paper had a Sunday magazine, “with glossy paper and staples,” he said. He moved on to become the paper’s features editor, TV critic, columnist, PolitiFact writer, assistant Metro editor, and Metro repor…
about 5 years ago
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James Bruggers kept a reprint of those 1967 stories on his desk at the office. “I just kept it there all the time because it was inspiration for me,” he told me recently. Bruggers, a gray-haired, ruddy-cheeked man in his early sixties, was the C-J’s environmental-beat reporter for nearly two decades. He wrote about mining, air quality, water quality, and environmental job hazards around Louisville and in rural parts of Kentucky. In 2015, he published a series of stories on a massive rural landfi…
about 5 years ago
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“It’s gonna be a three- or four-year experiment,” Jon Koncak, the fifth over-all pick in the 1985 draft, said, of two of the N.B.A.’s most promising rookies.
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