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Declarado culpable el expresidente de Colombia Álvaro Uribe por soborno de testigos en actuación penal Una jueza de Bogotá determinó la culpabilidad de Álvaro Uribe por soborno de testigos en un caso que se remonta a 2012.

Declarado culpable el expresidente de Colombia Álvaro Uribe por soborno de testigos en actuación penal

New Eric Adams ‘Donors’ Say They Never Gave to His Reelection Campaign The campaign sought public matching funds from donors who insist they didn’t donate, just weeks after a judge dropped his corruption case.

@thecity.nyc finds Eric Adams collected more alleged straw donations after Trump’s DOJ killed its straw donation case against him.

“I don’t really work. Where would I get this much money?” one supposed Adams donor said:

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The White House Marching Orders That Sparked the L.A. Migrant Crackdown After deportations fell short of President Trump’s campaign promises, federal agents summoned to a meeting in Washington were told to “just go out there and arrest illegal aliens.”

“Federal agents make warrantless arrests. Masked agents take people into custody without identifying themselves. Plainclothes agents in at least a dozen cities have arrested migrants who showed up to their court hearings.”

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UnitedHealth faces federal scrutiny into whistleblower claims Attention comes in wake of ex-employees’ allegations that insurer paid nursing homes to reduce hospital transfers and used improper tactics to gain Medicare Advantage enrollees

NEW: @aoc.bsky.social calls on DOJ to investigate UnitedHealth’s campaign to reduce hospital transfers for nursing home seniors.

And Sen @wyden.senate.gov launches his own investigation into the healthcare giant:
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13/ “No one is truly investigating when a patient suffers harm. Absolutely no one,” said one current UnitedHealth nurse practitioner who recently filed a congressional complaint about the nursing home program. “These incidents are hidden, downplayed and minimized.”

12/ The company declined to say whether he was ever sent to the hospital or what happened to him, citing patient confidentiality rules.

But these cases raise the question: what happens when patients aren’t hospitalized in the dark?

11/ The log suggests Keep never received proper stroke treatment in a hospital.

His symptoms were logged on a Saturday night. 18 hours later, UnitedHealth’s work up for him was still “pending” and it didn’t call for a stroke examination at a hospital.

10/ But instead of sending Keep straight to the hospital, his nurse called a UnitedHealth employee who formulated a plan of care that called for bloodwork and giving him an aspirin.

Multiple doctors told us this didn’t make sense, but it did mean they didn’t rush him to hospital

9/ In 2019, Keep was experiencing forgetfulness + drooping on the right side of his face – “possible stroke symptoms”, according to a confidential UnitedHealth log.

Strokes require immediate hospitalization. When blood flow to the brain is interrupted, brain cells quickly die.

8/ UnitedHealth denies this + says its bonus program helps prevent unnecessary hospitalizations for nursing home residents.

But confidential company and patient docs show it has helped prevent necessary hospitalizations for seniors too. Take the case of Donald Keep:

7/ Current UnitedHealth nurse practitioners told the Guardian that UnitedHealth managers pressed them to persuade Medicare Advantage members to change their “code status” to DNR even when seniors had expressed a desire that all available treatments be used to keep them alive.

6/ The company also monitored nursing homes that had smaller numbers of patients with “do not resuscitate” – or DNR – and “do not intubate” orders in their files. Without such orders, patients are in line for certain life-saving treatments that might lead to costly hospital stays.

5/ Internal emails show UnitedHealth supervisors gave their teams “budgets” showing how many hospital admissions they had “left” to use up on nursing homes patients.

4/ These seniors are covered by Medicare Advantage, a privatization initiative that pays insurers fixed sums to cover their healthcare. By putting UnitedHealth’s own medical teams into nursing homes to drive down hospitalizations, it cut its medical expenses—saving it federal dollars

3/ The secret bonuses have been paid out as part of a UnitedHealth program that stations the company’s own medical teams in nursing homes and pushes them to cut care expenses for residents covered by the insurance giant.

2/ This story is based on thousands of confidential UnitedHealth + patient records obtained through sources, public records requests + court files, interviews with 20+ current and former UnitedHealth and nursing home employees, + 2 whistleblower declarations via @wbaidlaw.bsky.social

Revealed: UnitedHealth secretly paid nursing homes to reduce hospital transfers A Guardian investigation finds insurer quietly paid facilities that helped it gain Medicare enrollees and reduce hospitalizations. Whistleblowers allege harm to residents

New @theguardian.com investigation: UnitedHealth secretly paid nursing homes bonuses to slash hospitalizations for elderly residents.

Company tactics resulted in delayed/avoided hospitalizations for seniors who needed care. One suffered permanent brain damage:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Indiana passes law threatening non-profit status of expensive hospitals Landmark legislation follows local uproar over a Guardian investigation into a major non-profit’s high prices

New: Indiana passes landmark legislation putting effective price caps on nonprofit hospitals—which benefit from tax exempt status.

This follows a @us.theguardian.com investigation into one of the state’s most expensive chains:

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Indiana passes law threatening non-profit status of expensive hospitals Landmark legislation follows local uproar over a Guardian investigation into a major non-profit’s high prices

Journalism matters. This follows reporting by @georgejoseph94.bsky.social, @wcraft.bsky.social, and @jessicaglenza.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Inside Trump’s Upstate NY migrant hunt: Border Patrol’s meaner tactics snare workers and families “It’s scary,” said a woman whose relatives have disappeared. “You can be followed just for being Hispanic.”

“Deputies are stopping Hispanic drivers for minor, unprovable traffic violations like veering left of center, then handing them over to Border Patrol agents who are sometimes already at the scene, the @syracuse.com investigation shows.”

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Trump is seeking to deport another graduate student who is legally in the country, lawsuit says Badar Khan Suri, a fellow at Georgetown, says he is being punished because of the suspected views of his wife, a U.S. citizen with Palestinian heritage.

SCOOP: Hooded ICE agents snatched Indian-born Georgetown postdoc Badar Suri from Rosslyn street Monday, per court filing. Like Khalil, linked to pro-Palestinian views & Rubio 'foreign policy' power, lawyer says. Then whisked to Louisiana. w/ @kyledcheney www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

New York City paying $500,000 a month to indicted developer who could testify against Mayor Eric Adams The Adams administration has continued to pay the hotel company of Weihong Hu, a developer accused of funneling illegal campaign donations to the mayor

SCOOP: Eric Adams’ admin is paying $500K a month in public funds to an indicted developer who could testify against him + top allies

This is the same developer who let the mayor’s son stay overnight with a woman in a taxpayer-funded room at her hotel:
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Yesterday, I published an investigation into a secretive & abusive NYPD unit led by Mayor Eric Adams’ buddies.

Adams has embraced the unit, the Community Response Team, even after NYPD officials raised red flags.

This is what that has wrought.

**All caught on video we obtained.**

THREAD.

NYC Mayor Eric Adams—who is seeking the dismissal of his federal corruption charges and has publicly pledged to collaborate with Trump’s migrant crackdown—did not respond to requests for comment.

DoJ demands New York migrant shelter give up names of people living there Subpoena issued to Manhattan hotel asks for ‘a list of full names of aliens currently residing’ at the site

BREAKING: The Department of Justice has sent a criminal subpoena to a NYC migrant shelter hotel demanding they give up the names of the families living there—per document obtained by @theguardian.com

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National Cancer Institute Employees Can’t Publish Information on These Topics Without Special Approval Vaccines. Fluoride. Autism. Communications involving these and 20 other “controversial, high profile, or sensitive” topics will get extra scrutiny under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

NEW: Vaccines. Bird Flu. COVID. Autism. Peanut Allergies. Fluoride. Environmental justice. Cancer Moonshot.

These and other “controversial" or "sensitive” topics will get extra scrutiny at the National Cancer Institute under RFK.

From me + @lisalsong.bsky.social:
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Florida congressman investigated for alleged DC assault as police probe their own handling D.C. police confirm they are investigating an alleged assault by Florida Rep. Cory Mills, a Republican representing a district northeast of Orlando, calling it an active criminal investigation.

The DC police last week sought to arrest a sitting member of Congress, a Florida Republican, for physically assaulting a woman in DC. But the US attorney’s office didn’t sign off on it. www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/f...

‘He’s selling the city’: behind Eric Adams’s New York City administration The mayor of America’s largest city is caught up in a swirl of indictments, immigrants, Rikers and Donald Trump

Eric Adams ran on protecting immigrants. Now he’s helping Trump deport them.

My latest on the mayor’s conversion:
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‘It’s a money game to them’: a son takes on UnitedHealth over his elderly father’s care Robby Martin has joined a lawsuit against UnitedHealth after the insurance giant cut off his father’s nursing home coverage – five days later his father died at home

NEW: United Healthcare cut off this 82 year-old’s rehab coverage though his family says he could barely walk.

The family appealed + won. But United cut his coverage again—then again.

He gave up. He died 5 days later:
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In May, @theguardian.com reported on how a reverend—a good friend of NYC Mayor Eric Adams—got Adams’ administration to reverse a construction safety order on behalf of a real estate developer.

Now the FBI has raided both the reverend’s home + the developer’s hotel:

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