Benjamin Weiser
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NYT reporter covering the Manhattan federal courts: justice, injustice and much in between. [email protected]
New York, NY
Joined October 2015
Police Officers Deliberately Hit Scooter Driver in Bike Lane, Suit Says @NYTimesCramer and I report.
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Video of the 2023 collision contradicts an account by one of the officers, who were members of the Police Department’s Community Response Team. The department has since moved to rein in the unit.
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Posts Calling Mangione Guilty Did No Harm, Top U.S. Prosecutor Argues
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A judge had demanded an explanation for why Justice Department officials were publicly expressing views on Luigi Mangione’s guilt in the killing of a health insurance executive.
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Live Updates: Sean Combs Sentenced to More Than Four Years in Prison
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The judge said that a substantial sentence was required “to send a message to abusers and victims alike that exploitation and violence against women is met with real accountability.”
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Breaking: Fired Prosecutor Challenges Trump’s Claims to Power in Lawsuit - @WRashbaum @Jonesieman and I report.
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The Justice Department gave no reason for its dismissal of Maurene Comey, a longtime federal prosecutor in Manhattan and the daughter of the former F.B.I. director, James Comey.
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We are currently in court before Judge Rakoff trying to unseal thousands of pages of financial records in the JPM litigation. Our push for transparency continues in federal court and in probate court in the USVI
As I’ve said before, the Epstein saga is a horrific sexual abuse story but also a story about Wall St & the big dollars that fueled his operation. Follow the $$
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Appeals Court Upholds Carroll’s $83 Million Judgment Against Trump
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The judges rejected President Trump’s argument that the Supreme Court’s decision extending presidential immunity should shield him from liability for defaming the writer E. Jean Carroll.
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BREAKING: In upholding a jury's liability finding and $83.3 million defamation award, the U.S. appeals court rejected Trump’s argument that the Supreme Court’s decision extending presidential immunity should shield him and that the damages were excessive
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The judges rejected President Trump’s argument that the Supreme Court’s decision extending presidential immunity should shield him from liability for defaming the writer E. Jean Carroll.
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BREAKING: Appeals Court Upholds Carroll’s $83 Million Judgment Against Trump
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The judges rejected President Trump’s argument that the Supreme Court’s decision extending presidential immunity should shield him from liability for defaming the writer E. Jean Carroll.
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Maxwell Opposes Request to Unseal Epstein Grand Jury Papers
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The disgraced financier’s former companion said disclosure would harm her legal rights. “Jeffrey Epstein is dead,” her lawyers wrote. “Ghislaine Maxwell is not.”
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Judges Openly Doubt Government as Justice Dept. Misleads and Dodges Orders - important article by @alanfeuer
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Legal experts say the actions causing concern from the bench could have a more systemic effect, eroding the healthy functioning of the courts.
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In Game-Changing Climate Rollback, E.P.A. Aims to Kill a Bedrock Scientific Finding
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The proposal is President Trump’s most consequential step yet to derail federal climate efforts and appears to represent a shift toward outright denial of the scientific consensus.
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Sad, important and beautifully written piece by Benjamin Weiser in the @nytimes
https://t.co/xMWYpTnNS3
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A man’s death after using “Flow” in a small Vermont city exposed a drug operation that spanned continents and sent a New York prosecutor on a heartbreaking journey.
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Justice Dept. Asks Manhattan Court to Unseal Epstein Grand Jury Testimony @lukebroadwater and I report
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The president has been under intense political pressure from his base after Attorney General Pam Bondi withheld portions of investigative files on the disgraced financier.
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BREAKING: Prosecutor Fired by Trump Calls Fear the ‘Tool of the Tyrant’
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Maurene Comey, who helped prosecute Jeffrey Epstein and Sean Combs, was dismissed without a detailed explanation. She is the daughter of James B. Comey, a longtime adversary of President Trump.
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“Since the day David died,” Ms. Parker said. She added: “I love my daughter. She already lost one parent to it. She didn’t need a legacy of losing both to it.” https://t.co/SXc9OyWTcR
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A man’s death after using “Flow” in a small Vermont city exposed a drug operation that spanned continents and sent a New York prosecutor on a heartbreaking journey.
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How a Single Overdose Unraveled an Empire of Heroin
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A man’s death after using “Flow” in a small Vermont city exposed a drug operation that spanned continents and sent a New York prosecutor on a heartbreaking journey.
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today, Metro presents one of those projects that can accurately be called "monumental." a (very) long-awaited master class in reporting and writing by @BenWeiserNYT that really does not feel like 4,700 words! gift link:
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A man’s death after using “Flow” in a small Vermont city exposed a drug operation that spanned continents and sent a New York prosecutor on a heartbreaking journey.
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NEW: How a Single Overdose Unraveled an Empire of Heroin -- and sent a New York prosecutor on a heartbreaking journey.
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Document Casts Doubt on White House’s Claims About Deported Venezuelans by @alanfeuer
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The document from El Salvador seems to undermine a position that lawyers for the Justice Department and top Trump officials have taken time and again in front of a judge in Washington.
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