Justin Scheck
@ScheckNYTimes
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New York Times reporter, Co-author Blood and Oil
California, USA
Joined March 2013
For a year, my colleague @ScheckNYTimes and I looked into why domestic workers from across East Africa, who are promised jobs and a better life in Saudi Arabia, continued to face abuse, starvation and death. Here's what we found.
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East African leaders and Saudi royals are among those profiting off a lucrative, deadly trade in domestic workers.
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Israel found the Hamas $ machine years ago. Nobody shut it down. My latest w @ScheckNYTimes features frustrated spies, secret ledgers, Saudi interrogations, & intel on a Hamas investment portfolio the US & Israel knew about but failed to prioritize
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Agents worried as millions poured in. Hamas bought weapons and plotted an attack. The authorities now say the money helped lay the groundwork for the Oct. 7 assault on Israel.
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NEW: Bruce Orwall, a longtime WSJ editor, has been named head of enterprise, @emmatuckerWSJ just said in an email to the newsroom, responsible for building a capacity to produce enterprise stories "faster and more flexibly"
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https://t.co/SOCn5iQl7o This Florida arms dealer has a yacht called Trigger Happy and Ukrainian sergeant on his company payroll
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Billions are pouring into a clubby, secretive arms market. With Pentagon cash and unusually close Ukrainian military ties, Marc Morales has few peers.
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In Rush to Arm Ukraine, Weapons Are Bought but Not Delivered, or Too Broken to Use by @ScheckNYTimes and @jakesNYT
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Some of the weapons sent to Ukraine by other countries have been unusable, and hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts paid up front have yet to be fulfilled.
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"Hang in there, we are doing all that we can...Your colleagues and friends around the world love and support you, and we’ll get you out as soon as we can." My message to our reporter Evan Gershkovich who's been detained in Russia since March 29:
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Evan will likely spend this Passover in isolation inside a Moscow prison. Set a place for him at your Seder table.
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The job is straightforward, dangerous and will soon be open to applicants: filling a 122-millimeter Soviet-style artillery shell with explosives that will turn it into a lethal projectile. @ScheckNYTimes @BoryanaDz @NikolayDoychin4
https://t.co/AKIEez25Mr
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Ukraine has long relied on Russian weapons for its armed forces. Now it is scrambling to get Soviet-era ammunition for those weapons, with the help of manufacturers even in rural corners of Eastern...
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David Sanford was a WSJ legend and wrote a story that made me proud of the institution where I worked for 15 years. https://t.co/ZRYkHUoGXj He was also a great editor and the best kind of benevolent newsroom grouch. The rest of us grouches will miss him.
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I'm really proud of this whole series, which I expect will shift the public debate around sports betting. But on the off-chance you don't want to read 16,000 words of in-depth investigations, we have a much briefer version that has some of the highlights.
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The New York Times examined thousands of pages of documents and interviewed lobbyists, executives, lawmakers, regulators and others to understand how the sports-betting industry grew so big so fast.
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This is the untold story of the most important prisoner swap since the end of the Cold War. It’s one of the most important pieces of journalism I’ve worked on—and reveals many secrets about the way power really works in our world. https://t.co/hwHkLnrcjE
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The detention of a Chinese executive to stand trial in the U.S. provoked a standoff between global rivals and opened an acrimonious new era. “You are lapdogs of the United States.”
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This story with @rob_barry was my last for the WSJ (my name is in the fine print at the bottom, since I no longer work there). We spent days door knocking, sheep dodging and visiting the bronze Bee Gees statue on the Isle of Man
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The web of shell companies and middlemen managed by services firm Bridgewaters makes it hard for authorities to track assets and enforce sanctions. The company has connections to now-blacklisted...
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New story, reported with @ScheckNYTimes: Authorities are trying to track Russian money. A web of shell companies run out of the Isle of Man makes it hard
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The web of shell companies and middlemen managed by services firm Bridgewaters makes it hard for authorities to track assets and enforce sanctions. The company has connections to now-blacklisted...
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I made a special one episode podcast about the case of Free Joseon, especially @christopher_ahn, for Brazen Presents. It’s out today, one week before The Rebel and the Kingdom ( https://t.co/x1oIZvVNnH) is published:
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Documentary Podcast · Weekly Series · William Veres is in trouble. In 2018 he was arrested following the largest ever investigation by the Italian police’s art squad. They accuse him of running a...
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THE REBEL AND THE KINGDOM is the account of Adrian Hong, who turned his back on the status quo to live by his principles. @bradleyhope reveals the full contours of this story of idealism, insanity, & heroism. THE REBEL AND THE KINGDOM is out 11/1. https://t.co/BMFeSAkGuM
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Oh almost forgot. The night after visiting the apartment/Airbnb, I came back had dinner at the pizza restaurant next door. As I was eating the guests staying there came to the window. Neither person was Peter Thiel.
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This is an apartment building in Valletta, the capital of Malta. It houses six flats. One of those is the registered residence of one of the richest men in the world: Peter Thiel. What is he doing in Malta? Applying for citizenship. https://t.co/qIjXthsvkf
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