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Jon Swaine
@jonswaine
Reporter on the @washingtonpost investigative team • [email protected]
New York, NY
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    Jon Swaine
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    Nov 17, 2020
    For the past half-hour, attorney Mark Aronchick – representing PA counties being sued by Trump – has loudly torn into @RudyGiuliani, saying he is ignorant of the law, living in "some fantasy world" and pushing wild allegations that are "disgraceful in an American courtroom."
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    Jon Swaine
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    Apr 22, 2018
    NEW: Sean Hannity revealed as secret owner behind shell companies that have spent $90m buying 870+ homes across the US – with help from HUD and foreclosures
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    Michael Cohen case shines light on Sean Hannity's property empire
    From theguardian.com
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    Jon Swaine
    @jonswaine
    Nov 10, 2018
    It was on his Wikipedia page
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    Daniel Dale
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    Nov 10, 2018
    WaPo: The acting attorney general's role as an adviser to a scam company "came as a surprise to both senior Justice Department and White House officials, several officials said." washingtonpost.com/politics/feder…
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    Jon Swaine
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    Apr 20, 2023
    New: Mike Lindell offered $5m to anyone who could disprove his claim to have data showing China interfered in the 2020 election. A Nevada man did just that. But Lindell refused to pay. Now an arbitration panel has ordered Lindell to hand over the $5m.
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    Mike Lindell’s firm told to pay $5 million in ‘Prove Mike Wrong’ election-fraud challenge
    From washingtonpost.com
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    Jon Swaine
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    May 4, 2016
    Ted Cruz ends campaign by accidentally hitting, elbowing his wife in the face
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    Jon Swaine
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    Nov 16, 2020
    New: All three attorneys representing the Trump campaign in its federal lawsuit in Pennsylvania have filed to withdraw from the case. A filing says attorney Marc A. Scaringi will now represent the campaign.
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    Jon Swaine
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    Jul 28, 2023
    Twenty-six paragraphs into this, we learn that the lead author is an attorney who has a major tax case in front of SCOTUS next term. Justice Alito met with him for several hours.
    Samuel Alito, the Supreme Court’s Plain-Spoken Defender
    Opinion | Samuel Alito, the Supreme Court’s Plain-Spoken Defender
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    Jon Swaine
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    Dec 30, 2020
    Josh Hawley voted in Missouri using his sister’s address. State law requires voters to register at their residence. Hawley owns a home in the DC suburbs and a lot under development in Missouri.
    Sen. Josh Hawley, a Missouri Republican, speaks during the confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett at the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill last month.
    Josh Hawley, who owns a house in Virginia, uses sister’s home as Missouri address
    From kansascity.com
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    Jon Swaine
    @jonswaine
    Jan 8, 2019
    🚨 NEW: Paul Manafort's attorneys failed to properly redact their filing. They reveal that Mueller alleges Manafort "lied about sharing polling data with Mr. Kilimnik related to the 2016 presidential campaign". Konstantin Kilimnik has alleged ties to Russian intelligence. 🚨
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    Jon Swaine
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    Dec 17, 2019
    New: A whistleblower complaint to the IRS alleges the Mormon Church has improperly amassed a $100 billion tax-exempt investment fund and used it to bail out for-profit companies
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    Mormon Church has misled members on $100 billion tax-exempt investment fund, whistleblower alleges
    From washingtonpost.com
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    Jon Swaine
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    Jul 25, 2019
    New: Danielle Stella, the QAnon-dabbling Republican aiming to unseat Ilhan Omar, has been arrested twice this year for alleged shoplifting. She’s charged with felony theft for allegedly stealing $2,300 worth of stuff from a Target
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    Pro-Trump Republican aiming to unseat Ilhan Omar charged with felony theft
    From theguardian.com
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    Jon Swaine
    @jonswaine
    Jul 18, 2020
    John Sanders, a 24-year-old protester in Cleveland, appeared in our video report on people partially blinded by police munitions. wapo.st/protests-polic… Now he’s obtained pics of what surgeons removed from his eye. Police call them “beanbag rounds” but they’re filled with lead.
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    Dr. Splenda 👨🏿‍🎤
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    Jul 16, 2020
    Replying to @OGJohnTee
    This is what was found in my eye
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    Partially blinded by police: Video evidence undermines official accounts of injuries at George...
    From washingtonpost.com
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    Jon Swaine
    @jonswaine
    Jul 30, 2022
    New: Rep. Matt Gaetz was caught on a hot mic assuring Roger Stone that Trump would likely pardon him shortly before Stone’s criminal trial in 2019. “The boss still has a very favorable view of you … he said it directly.”
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    Hot mic captured Gaetz assuring Stone of pardon, discussing Mueller redactions
    From washingtonpost.com
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    Jon Swaine
    @jonswaine
    Dec 7, 2019
    Mike Huckabee has filed a formal complaint to the Florida Bar against an attorney with 500 Twitter followers for criticizing him and RTing/liking tweets making fun of him
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    Mike Huckabee’s outrageous campaign to silence a Florida critic | Steve Bousquet
    Mike Huckabee ran for president not once but twice and got his butt kicked both times. But he must have developed a thick skin along the way, right? Wrong. The former Republican governor of Arkansas...