Corey Johnson

My heart aches for the newsrooms at the Washington Post and Atlanta Journal-Constitution who suffered massive job losses this week. The damage from those decisions will be felt by us all.

Eight additional federal prosecutors are in the process of leaving the Minnesota U.S. Attorney's Office, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the situation. The departures follow the mass exit of six veteran prosecutors who left the office last month in protest of recent directives from the U.S. Department of Justice, including the department's refusal to initiate a civil rights investigation into the killing of Renee Good. Among those leaving is Ana Voss, the civil division chief, who has been helping to handle hundreds of wrongful detention petitions flooding the office since federal officers began their immigration crackdown in Minnesota.

Breaking: Eight more prosecutors are leaving the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Minnesota, including Ana Voss, the current civil division chief, the Star Tribune reports.

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Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

IRE, the nation’s largest journalism association, calls on the federal government to drop these charges and to acknowledge and respect the rights of journalists covering protests across the country.

www.ire.org/2026/01/30/i...

Six Senators Accuse Deputy Attorney General of “Glaring” Crypto Conflict, Cite ProPublica Investigation The senators presented a letter demanding that top DOJ official Todd Blanche clarify the legality of his actions, pointing to ProPublica reporting that found he owned at least $159,000 in related asse...

Six Senators Accuse Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche of “Glaring” Crypto Conflict, Cite ProPublica Investigation. The latest from @propublica.org's @coreygjohnson.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/todd...

Six Senators Accuse Deputy Attorney General of “Glaring” Crypto Conflict, Cite ProPublica Investigation The senators presented a letter demanding that top DOJ official Todd Blanche clarify the legality of his actions, pointing to ProPublica reporting that found he owned at least $159,000 in related asse...

More impact from my investigation with @shaw.al: Six senators accused Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche of a “glaring” conflict of interest, citing our reporting that found he held at least $159,000 in investments when he shut down crypto investigations. www.propublica.org/article/todd...

Six Senators Accuse Deputy Attorney General of “Glaring” Crypto Conflict, Cite ProPublica Investigation The senators presented a letter demanding that top DOJ official Todd Blanche clarify the legality of his actions, pointing to ProPublica reporting that found he owned at least $159,000 in related asse...

NEW: Six senators accused Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche of a “glaring” conflict of interest, citing ProPublica reporting that found he held at least $159,000 in related investments when he shut down crypto investigations at the DOJ.

'Poorly trained, overwhelmed and inexperienced': Who are the newest ICE agents? The number of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents has doubled over the past year -- driven by a massive recruitments campaign. Who the new recruits are and how they’re being trained.

My ProPublica colleague @cengizyar.com was on @wbur.org's On Point today, talking about the ongoing events in Minneapolis. Listen to the whole episode here:

How Eric Adams Has Backed a Secretive NYPD Unit Ridden With Abuses After NYPD officials warned about a unit’s aggressive policing, the mayor boosted the team led by his allies. “The unit effectively reported directly to City Hall,” a former police official said.

My story. www.propublica.org/article/eric...

Taxpayer funded officials lying to taxpayers is a problem that threatens everyone. The fact that you can face criminal penalties for deceiving a cop, but become elevated and celebrated after defrauding the citizenry is a fatal defect in the whole democratic experiment.

F.B.I. Agent Who Tried to Investigate ICE Officer in Shooting Resigns

Breaking NYT:

The FBI agent who sought to investigate the federal immigration officer who fatally shot Renee Good has resigned from the bureau, according to two people familiar with the matter, after leadership pressured her to discontinue a civil rights inquiry into the officer.

Complaint Accuses Trump’s Criminal Attorney of “Blatant” Crypto Conflict in His Role at DOJ A watchdog group is seeking an inspector general investigation into Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche after ProPublica reported that he had ordered changes to crypto prosecutions while owning more ...

Following I and @shaw.al's investigation, an ethics watchdog group is seeking an investigation into whether Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche broke federal conflict-of-interest law. www.propublica.org/article/todd...

For a movie that had lots to say about revolutionary resistance to white supremacist attacks on immigrants, the One Battle After Another award winners were strikingly silent at the Golden Globes about ICE and the current controversies in Minnesota and New York.

NEW: Second video shows ICE shooting in Minneapolis. A woman, a U.S. citizen, was killed

Top DOJ Official Todd Blanche Shut Down Crypto Enforcement While Holding Crypto Assets The second-highest official at the DOJ, Todd Blanche rose to prominence as Trump’s personal defense attorney. His actions violated the federal conflicts of interest law and his ethics agreement, exper...

1. Todd Blanche held between $159,000-$485,000 in crypto investments

2. To get confirmed as DOJ #2, he committed to divesting

3. He issued a memo ending investigations into crypto companies

4. Then he transferred the assets to family

See the problem?

Sick in a Hospital Town, Part 1: The Business of Care Welcome to Albany, Georgia, where one hospital dominates the political and economic landscape. The story of Phoebe Putney Memorial is the story of American health care.

I went to Albany, Ga., 5 years ago to write about Covid-19, but I realized there was a bigger story to be told about the unchecked power of our health care system and who benefits from its growth.

Spoiler: Far too few of us. @propublica.org

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Top DOJ Official Todd Blanche Shut Down Crypto Enforcement While Holding Crypto Assets The second-highest official at the DOJ, Todd Blanche rose to prominence as Trump’s personal defense attorney. His actions violated the federal conflicts of interest law and his ethics agreement, exper...

Todd Blanche, the second-highest official at the DOJ, issued a memo to shut down enforcement against crypto companies while he still held more than $150,000 in crypto investments, ProPublica found. One expert called it “an obvious conflict of interest.”

Top DOJ Official Todd Blanche Shut Down Crypto Enforcement While Holding Crypto Assets The second-highest official at the DOJ, Todd Blanche rose to prominence as Trump’s personal defense attorney. His actions violated the federal conflicts of interest law and his ethics agreement, exper...

I'd be honored if you would read my latest. Brought to you courtesy of a copious amount of blood, sweat and tears: DOJ official Todd Blanche shut down enforcement against crypto companies while he still held more than $150,000 in crypto investments.
www.propublica.org/article/todd...

Top DOJ Official Shut Down Enforcement Against Crypto Companies While Holding More Than $150,000 in Crypto Investments The second-highest official at the DOJ, Todd Blanche rose to prominence as Trump’s personal defense attorney. His actions violated the federal conflicts of interest law and his ethics agreement, experts told ProPublica.

NEW: Todd Blanche, the second-highest official at the DOJ, issued a memo to shut down enforcement against crypto companies while he still held more than $150,000 in crypto investments, ProPublica found.

One expert called it “an obvious conflict of interest.”

Without Knowledge or Consent Archives For decades, gun manufacturers gathered sensitive, intimate information from their customers and secretly shared it with political operatives to help elect firearm-friendly politicians.

Today would be a good day for y’all to read @coreygjohnson.bsky.social ‘s
2024/2025 gun industry investigation, Without Knowledge or Consent. Basically breaks down an origin story to consider when pondering America’s appetite for gun violence: www.propublica.org/series/witho... @propublica.org

YouTube video by MS NOW 'Clearly what would have saved her life': Texas mother dies after she couldn't get an abortion

ICYMI: My colleague Lizzie Presser joined MS NOW to discuss the heartbreaking case of 37 year old Tierra Walker. Walker is now the fourth woman in Texas we have reported on who died under the state's abortion ban youtube.com/watch?v=n24ySupfK2E&index=5

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ICE Fires Chemical Weapon At TV Reporter In Broadview; 'Unprovoked' Attack Under Investigation The attack came one day after ICE arrested another working journalist. "Absolutely unprovoked," the TV news reporter said. "My window was open and chemicals went all over my face. Been puking for two ...

Trump's secret police wages violent war on journalists... journalists are being shot intentionally with bean bags, chemical munitions and at least one was arrested for no reason. DHS spokesmen deny it's happening. But it's on tape and has been witnessed by dozens of citizens.

A graveyard outside a state juvenile detention facility has been neglected by Maryland officials for decades.

A Post investigation found that state officials had grossly undercounted the number of Black children who died while in the facility's care. https://wapo.st/4gFjINr

“Just Let Me Die”: After Insurance Repeatedly Denied a Couple’s Claims, One Psychiatrist Was Their Last Hope After a North Carolina man attempted suicide twice, his wife tried to get him help at an inpatient clinic. But their insurance provider refused to cover the treatment, deeming it “not medically necess...

He wanted to die. His wife fought for him. A psychiatrist was their last hope.

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NIH Launches New Multimillion-Dollar Initiative to Reduce U.S. Stillbirth Rate Clinical teams across the country are forming a five-year, $37 million consortium to research stillbirth, a long-neglected public health concern. “There’s no question that the ProPublica reporting was...

GOOD NEWS.

Clinical teams across the country are forming a five-year, $37 million consortium to research stillbirth, a neglected public health concern.

“There’s no question that the ProPublica reporting was intimately tied to this,” one expert said.

Specifically, @deldeib.bsky.social's reporting.

A New Lawsuit Alleges the Gun Industry Exploited Firearm Owners’ Data for Political Gain The federal court complaint filed this week closely mirrors the findings of a ProPublica investigation that detailed a decades-long secret program operated by the gun industry’s largest trade group.

Two major law firms accused the National Shooting Sports Foundation this week of violating the privacy rights of millions of gun owners by running a decades-long program that sent their information to political operatives without consent.

The complaint seeks class-action status & financial damages.

ABC affiliates owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group Alabama — Birmingham-Tuscaloosa-Anniston, WDBB and WBMA Alabama/Florida — Mobile/Pensacola, WEAR Arkansas — Little Rock, KATV California — Chico-Redding, KRCR California — Eureka-Arcata, KAEF DC — WJLA Georgia — Macon, WGXA (ABC/FOX) Michigan — Traverse City-Cadillac-Cheboygan-Sault Ste. Marie, WPBN, WTOM, WGTU, WGTQ Missouri — St. Louis, KDNL North Carolina — Asheville, WLOS (also Greenville/Spartanburg, SC) (ABC/MyNetwork TV) North Carolina — Greenville-New Bern-Morehead City, WCTI North Carolina — Winston Salem-Greensboro-High Point, WXLV Nebraska — Hayes Center-McCook, KWNB Nebraska — North Platte, KHGI New York — Rochester, WHAM (ABC/The CW) Ohio — Columbus-Chillicothe, WSYX (ABC/MyNetwork/FOX) Ohio — Dayton, WKEF (ABC/FOX) Oklahoma — Tulsa, KTUL Oregon — Portland, KATU Pennsylvania — Johnstown-Altoona, WATM (ABC/FOX) South Carolina — Charleston, WCIV (MyNetwork/ABC) South Carolina — Florence-Myrtle Beach, WPDE (ABC/The CW) Tennessee — Chattanooga, WTVC (ABC/FOX) Texas — Abilene, KTXS (ABC/CW+) Texas — Amarillo, KVII (ABC/CW+) Texas — San Angelo, KTXE (ABC/CW+) Virginia — Lynchburg-Roanoke, WSET Washington — Seattle-Tacoma, KOMO West Virginia — Charleston-Huntington, WCHS (ABC/FOX)

ABC affiliates owned by Nexstar Media Group Alabama — WDHN, Dothan Connecticut — WTNH, New Haven (Hartford) Florida — WMBB, Panama City (jointly ABC/The CW) Georgia — WJBF, Augusta (ABC/MeTV/The CW) Illinois — WTVO, Rockford (ABC/MyTV) Indiana — WEHT, Evansville Indiana — WAWV, Terre Haute Iowa — KCAU, Sioux City Kansas — KTKA, Topeka (ABC/The CW) Louisiana — WGNO, New Orleans Michigan — WOTV, Battle Creek Michigan — WLAJ, Lansing (ABC/The CW) Missouri — KSNF, Joplin Montana — KSVI, Billings (ABC/The CW) New York — WTEN, Albany-Schenectady New York — WIVT, Binghamton New York — WSYR, Syracuse New York — WUTR, Utica-Rome (ABC/MyTV) New York — WWTI, Watertown (ABC/The CW) Ohio — WYTV, Youngstown (ABC/MyTV) Pennsylvania — WJET, Erie Pennsylvania — WHTM, Harrisburg Tennessee — WATE, Knoxville Tennessee — WKRN, Nashville Texas — KAMC, Lubbock Texas — KMID, Odessa-Midland Utah — KTVX, Salt Lake City (ABC/MeTV) Vermont — WVNY, Burlington Virginia — WRIC, Richmond West Virginia — WBOY, Clarksburg-Fairmont-Morgantown (NBC/ABC)

Wondering if you live somewhere in the United States where Nexstar or Sinclair owns your ABC affiliate? Here are the TV stations pre-empting your Jimmy Kimmel Live! and inserting their own politics for the displeasure of your local advertisers who didn't ask for lower-rated programming.

Exclusive: Bill Pulte accused Fed Governor Lisa Cook of fraud. His relatives filed housing claims similar to hers Close relatives of the federal official who has accused a Federal Reserve governor of improperly claiming primary residence on two properties have declared the same status on two homes in two different states, public records show.

And @reuters.com has been running circles around NYT, Washpost et al on this story.

This piece ran last week.

www.reuters.com/world/us/bil...

And the coup de gras:

Cook “never requested a tax exemption for the Georgia home as a primary residence, according to property records and a Fulton County tax official”