Jay Root
@byjayroot
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Investigative reporter in Albany for The New York Times. Native Texan. Moitié français. Email: Jay.Root AT https://t.co/XzPq5NoUnL; 518-779-6529. DMs open.
Albany, NY
Joined April 2009
For years a #Brooklyn powerbroker named John Chan has played an outsized role in New York politics. His ties to the Chinese Communist Party were not a secret. His criminal past was. Today we revealed it (w/@PekingMike, @biancapallaro & @BenWeiserNYT)
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John Chan was a Chinatown gangster before remaking himself into a powerful force in New York politics — one closely aligned with the Chinese Communist Party.
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@NYCMayor It was “4 more years!” on one side of 8th Ave and “Adams go home!” on the other. Adams said he supported the Asian community here “not just because I’m your mayor but because I’m your brother.”
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Looking like the protest across the street is bigger than the southern Brooklyn AAPI rally for @NYCMayor Eric Adams. Still waiting for the mayor.
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NEW TONIGHT: Possible ballot stuffing. Absentee fraud. Dead voters. This is the alleged activity officials say prosecutors should investigate in southern Brooklyn
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The New York City Board of Elections asked prosecutors to investigate potential ballot stuffing in a City Council race in southern Brooklyn.
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Spotted at @NYCMayor Eric Adams's rally yesterday in Flushing: Winnie Greco, who resigned from his admin last year amid a probe of possible Chinese influence in the 2021 mayor's race, & Dao Yin, charged with fraud over allegedly fake donations to his 2024 Assembly campaign
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RT @boreskes: NEW: Avi Small, the press secretary to Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York, has been placed on leave and is being investigated afte….
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Avi Small, the press secretary to Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York, is being investigated after another aide accused him of inappropriate touching.
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MUST READ NYT story revealing US law enforcement compiled reams of evidence of a "corrupt pact" between the government of El Salvador and gang leaders --> Trump Vowed to Dismantle MS-13. His Deal With Bukele Threatens That Effort.
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Top gang leaders being sent back to El Salvador were part of a lengthy federal investigation that has amassed evidence of a corrupt pact between the Bukele government and MS-13.
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RT @PekingMike: Former Cuomo Campaign Adviser Led Chinese State Oil Company - by @byjayroot @biancapallaro and me. He just resigned. https….
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Larry He, who served as Mr. Cuomo’s Asian outreach director, held senior posts at a multibillion-dollar firm owned by China but omitted the experience from his résumé.
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Following our @nytimes investigation, 2024 #NYS Assembly candidate Dao Yin is charged with fraud after allegedly using fake donors and forged signatures to get taxpayer money (matching funds) for his campaign w/@SantulN @biancapallaro & @WRashbaum.
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Dao Yin was charged after a New York Times investigation revealed that he reported receiving campaign contributions from people who said they had not made them.
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Buyer With Ties to Chinese Communist Party Got V.I.P. Treatment at Trump Crypto Dinner via all star cast @EricLiptonNYT @yaffebellany @PekingMike @devonjlum & Jiawei Wang.
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The warm welcome for a technology executive whose purchases of the president’s digital coin won him a White House tour illustrates inconsistencies in the administration’s views toward visitors from...
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RT @emmagf: He Took a Wrong Turn Into Canada. The Price? 3 Weeks in ICE Custody by @byjayroot:
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An accidental trip over the Peace Bridge in Buffalo typically means a toll and a loss of time. But for Victor, crossing an international border carried a higher cost.
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NY Gov. @KathyHochul apologizes for “sanctioned ethnic cleansing” at state-run boarding school in Western NY
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Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York visited Seneca land on Tuesday to apologize for the state’s operation of a boarding school that “sanctioned ethnic cleansing” of Native American children.
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This is a MUST READ —> The Story of Sexual Abuse, Bribery and Suicide That Shocked a Small Town .via @Chris_Maag.
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An F.B.I. investigation homed in on two powerful men in suburban New York. Behind it were allegations by a woman who said her brother had abused and controlled her for 45 years.
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Wish I had come up with this lede on my own: “A Brooklyn judge took the crime out of a bite on Tuesday, dismissing a felony case against a New York City councilwoman who” bit a cop via moi & @HurubieMeko.
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Susan Zhuang attacked a deputy chief of the Police Department during a protest last summer over a homeless shelter in Brooklyn.
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This is kinda brilliant.
@JimmyVielkind asks Governor Hochul about her proposed mask ban. “Do I intend to harass you?” “How would you know that, and would a law enforcement officer know that?”
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When we talked to donors listed as attendees of a fundraiser Lian Wu Shao threw for @NYCMayor Adams in 2021, 4 said they never went. One said he'd never been to a fundraiser in his life. That fundraiser netted Adams $364k in public matching funds.
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The Justice Department is pushing to drop corruption charges against Eric Adams in Manhattan while federal authorities in Brooklyn have been investigating his top fund-raisers.
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We report that investigators last year searched the Long Island mansion of Adams’ fundraiser Lian Wu Shao, the wealthy co-founder of Flushing’s New World Mall and the popular Asian supermarket Jmart. One of his associates believes he may be in China.
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The Justice Department is pushing to drop corruption charges against Eric Adams in Manhattan while federal authorities in Brooklyn have been investigating his top fund-raisers.
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NEW: Did the Chinese government attempt to influence the election that sent @NYCmayor Eric Adams to City Hall? That’s one thing federal prosecutors in Brooklyn would like to know as part of a long-running foreign money and influence investigation.
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