Samuel Rubenfeld (he/him)
@srubenfeld.bsky.social
senior reporter, financial crime and corruption, MLex.
Talk for hours, I hardly know ya
But I, I'm listening
https://www.mlex.com/mlex/financial-crime
Talk for hours, I hardly know ya
But I, I'm listening
https://www.mlex.com/mlex/financial-crime
Pinned
now that the skyline is more populated, I am going to be more intentional about how I use this site.
Reintroduction: I am a senior reporter for MLex, covering financial crime and corruption. I am often in court.
Otherwise, I read a lot of news, watch a lot of NY sports and listen to a lot of music
Reintroduction: I am a senior reporter for MLex, covering financial crime and corruption. I am often in court.
Otherwise, I read a lot of news, watch a lot of NY sports and listen to a lot of music
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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
Alex Karp, the billionaire CEO of Palantir who has recently pivoted to the political right, “seems a case study in the way ideology often follows self-interest,” our columnist Michelle Goldberg writes.
Alex Karp, the billionaire CEO of Palantir who has recently pivoted to the political right, “seems a case study in the way ideology often follows self-interest,” our columnist Michelle Goldberg writes.
Opinion | Palantir C.E.O. Alex Karp Finds a Safe Space With Trump
A tech billionaire professes to hate identity politics, but they seem in some ways to consume him.
nyti.ms
November 11, 2025 at 4:20 AM
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
Alex Karp, the billionaire CEO of Palantir who has recently pivoted to the political right, “seems a case study in the way ideology often follows self-interest,” our columnist Michelle Goldberg writes.
Alex Karp, the billionaire CEO of Palantir who has recently pivoted to the political right, “seems a case study in the way ideology often follows self-interest,” our columnist Michelle Goldberg writes.
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This is why life insurance usually timely pays out claims—it is a functional market, bc it can deny coverage.
The basic problem of health insurance: if you want sick people to be able to get insurance, then the insurance product ceases to be traditional insurance, bc the insurer cannot price risk. Once you accept that sick people should get insurance, you must accept some variety of a socialized system.
Rick Scott told me his plan would be to take all of the remaining ACA subsidies and redistribute them to HSA accounts and people can then buy whatever insurance a state certifies. Basically a repeal/replace.
He denied when I asked wouldn’t that create two-tiered system where sick pay much more…
He denied when I asked wouldn’t that create two-tiered system where sick pay much more…
November 11, 2025 at 4:35 AM
This is why life insurance usually timely pays out claims—it is a functional market, bc it can deny coverage.
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Indonesia’s president on Monday anointed the late dictator Suharto as a national hero, in what many said was a stunning move of revisionist history.
He Was Known for Kleptocratic Rule and Bloodshed. Now Suharto Is a National Hero.
Indonesia’s president bestowed the honor on the dictator Suharto, who died in 2008, in what many said was a stunning move of revisionist history.
nyti.ms
November 11, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Indonesia’s president on Monday anointed the late dictator Suharto as a national hero, in what many said was a stunning move of revisionist history.
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Cops are great
a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers
November 11, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Cops are great
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Exclusive: China plans to ease the flow of rare earths to the U.S. by designing a system that will exclude companies with ties to the U.S. military while fast-tracking export approvals for other firms.
Exclusive | China Hatches Plan to Keep U.S. Military From Getting Its Rare-Earth Magnets
Beijing is considering a “validated end-user” system that would facilitate the export of such materials.
on.wsj.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Exclusive: China plans to ease the flow of rare earths to the U.S. by designing a system that will exclude companies with ties to the U.S. military while fast-tracking export approvals for other firms.
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Goodall's willingness to go into detail about how the members of the BBC board who hired the author of the leaked Telegraph were also involved in launching an unfounded inquiry that led him to exit the BBC (and led to Newsnight's gutting) is whew -- goodallandgoodluck.substack.com/p/the-truth-...
The truth about impartiality at the BBC
And the hysteria of the current "crisis"
goodallandgoodluck.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Goodall's willingness to go into detail about how the members of the BBC board who hired the author of the leaked Telegraph were also involved in launching an unfounded inquiry that led him to exit the BBC (and led to Newsnight's gutting) is whew -- goodallandgoodluck.substack.com/p/the-truth-...
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In this week's roundup: A big FDA announcement on menopause, what the recent elections mean for reproductive freedom, Kim Davis flops but efforts to undermine marriage equality continue, and fetal personhood laws continue apace.
FDA Drops Barriers to Menopause Treatment, Supreme Court Denies Kim Davis: November 10 News Roundup
Plus, what you missed on Autonomy News last week.
www.autonomynews.co
November 10, 2025 at 9:37 PM
In this week's roundup: A big FDA announcement on menopause, what the recent elections mean for reproductive freedom, Kim Davis flops but efforts to undermine marriage equality continue, and fetal personhood laws continue apace.
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Nearly three decades after eliminating the virus, Canada has lost its measles-free status, making it the first nation in the Americas to lose it since 2019 amid a broader resurgence of the vaccine-preventable respiratory virus around the world.
Canada loses measles-free status amid resurgence of virus in Americas
Canada virtually eliminated measles in 1998. Now, a disease that doctors in the country knew only from textbooks is back.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Nearly three decades after eliminating the virus, Canada has lost its measles-free status, making it the first nation in the Americas to lose it since 2019 amid a broader resurgence of the vaccine-preventable respiratory virus around the world.
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A must-read for all sorts of reasons, especially its cataloging of all the ways Trump is silencing dissent
Over the last 10 months, the federal government has cracked down on political expression with a persistence and viciousness reminiscent of some of the darkest periods of U.S. history. Welcome to the Third Red Scare.
The First Amendment Won’t Go Quietly
Welcome to the third Red Scare.
www.theatlantic.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:20 PM
A must-read for all sorts of reasons, especially its cataloging of all the ways Trump is silencing dissent
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Here is the requested take: publiccomment.blog/p/mamdani-th...
November 10, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Here is the requested take: publiccomment.blog/p/mamdani-th...
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Gaddafi's youngest son released after 10 years in Lebanese detention
Gaddafi's youngest son released after 10 years in Lebanese detention
The Lebanese authorities seized Mr Gaddafi, now 49, in 2015 and held him without trial.
www.bbc.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Gaddafi's youngest son released after 10 years in Lebanese detention
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Three former San Antonio police officers were acquitted on Monday of all charges related to the fatal shooting of a woman who appeared to be having a mental health crisis when they were dispatched to her apartment in 2023. nyti.ms/4qRnvvT
3 San Antonio Officers Acquitted in Fatal Shooting of Woman in 2023
Melissa Perez, 46, swung a hammer in their direction and appeared to be in distress in her home when the officers arrived, officials said.
nyti.ms
November 10, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Three former San Antonio police officers were acquitted on Monday of all charges related to the fatal shooting of a woman who appeared to be having a mental health crisis when they were dispatched to her apartment in 2023. nyti.ms/4qRnvvT
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President Donald Trump has asked the US Supreme Court to overturn the verdict in a $5 million civil case that found he sexually abused and defamed magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll. https://cnn.it/3JUPkmg
November 10, 2025 at 10:48 PM
President Donald Trump has asked the US Supreme Court to overturn the verdict in a $5 million civil case that found he sexually abused and defamed magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll. https://cnn.it/3JUPkmg
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Re-upping this on life inside the DOJ Miami office that’s become ground zero for Trump enemies prosecutions: resignations, recruiting outsourced to a voter fraud conspiracist, crim chief walled off after Posobiec post. Tensions continue to rise. My story:
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
DOJ Miami Office Readies Conspiracy Probe Into Trump Enemies (2)
The South Florida US attorney’s office is recruiting prosecutors and restructuring its chain of command in preparation for a grand jury investigation expected to target former Justice Department offic...
news.bloomberglaw.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Re-upping this on life inside the DOJ Miami office that’s become ground zero for Trump enemies prosecutions: resignations, recruiting outsourced to a voter fraud conspiracist, crim chief walled off after Posobiec post. Tensions continue to rise. My story:
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
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The Justice Department has lost thousands of experienced attorneys since the start of the Trump administration and has backfilled a fraction of the open jobs, with the process snarled by a lack of qualified candidates, bureaucratic delays and hiring freezes.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Justice Department struggles as thousands exit — and few are replaced
The Justice Department has lost thousands of experienced attorneys and backfilled a fraction of the open jobs, in part because of a lack of qualified candidates.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 PM
The Justice Department has lost thousands of experienced attorneys since the start of the Trump administration and has backfilled a fraction of the open jobs, with the process snarled by a lack of qualified candidates, bureaucratic delays and hiring freezes.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Ammon Bundy-associate is a no-show at Idaho Supreme Court appeal
www.courthousenews.com/ammon-bundy-...
www.courthousenews.com/ammon-bundy-...
Ammon Bundy-associate is a no-show at Idaho Supreme Court appeal
Diego Rodriguez and anti-government activist Ammon Bundy had been found liable, to the tune of $52 million, for organizing a smear campaign against the hospital that treated Rodriguez's grandchild.
www.courthousenews.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Ammon Bundy-associate is a no-show at Idaho Supreme Court appeal
www.courthousenews.com/ammon-bundy-...
www.courthousenews.com/ammon-bundy-...
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It would be much easier to codify Bivens and allow everyone -- not just Republican senators -- to sue federal officials for alleged rights violations
Buried inside the deal to reopen government is a provision that would give Senators private right of action to sue for millions in damages over their phone records being analyzed by Jack Smith's team.
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
Shutdown Deal Would Let Senators Sue Over Jack Smith Searches
Senators whose phone records were sought by Special Counsel Jack Smith would gain authority to sue for millions in damages under a provision buried in the Senate-advanced deal to reopen the government...
news.bloomberglaw.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 PM
It would be much easier to codify Bivens and allow everyone -- not just Republican senators -- to sue federal officials for alleged rights violations
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British pro-Palestinian commentator Sami Hamdi, who is being held by U.S. immigration authorities, is set to be released, his family said on Monday, a fortnight after he was detained midway through a national speaking tour.
UK pro-Palestinian commentator set to be released from US detention, his family says
British pro-Palestinian commentator Sami Hamdi, who is being held by U.S. immigration authorities, is set to be released, his family said on Monday, a fortnight after he was detained midway through a national speaking tour.
reut.rs
November 10, 2025 at 11:01 PM
British pro-Palestinian commentator Sami Hamdi, who is being held by U.S. immigration authorities, is set to be released, his family said on Monday, a fortnight after he was detained midway through a national speaking tour.
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A felon whose sentence Trump commuted in the final hours of his first term has been sentenced to 27 months in prison after being accused of a range of criminal conduct — including physical and sexual assault — since Trump freed him.
Jonathan Braun had a long history of violence.
Jonathan Braun had a long history of violence.
Felon Freed by Trump Is Sentenced Again, This Time to 27 Months
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:05 PM
A felon whose sentence Trump commuted in the final hours of his first term has been sentenced to 27 months in prison after being accused of a range of criminal conduct — including physical and sexual assault — since Trump freed him.
Jonathan Braun had a long history of violence.
Jonathan Braun had a long history of violence.
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"Which of These Endangers Jews?"
New art at @truthdig.com ft. Zohran Mamdani and Jonathan Greenblatt:
www.truthdig.com/cartoons/whi...
New art at @truthdig.com ft. Zohran Mamdani and Jonathan Greenblatt:
www.truthdig.com/cartoons/whi...
November 10, 2025 at 7:55 PM
"Which of These Endangers Jews?"
New art at @truthdig.com ft. Zohran Mamdani and Jonathan Greenblatt:
www.truthdig.com/cartoons/whi...
New art at @truthdig.com ft. Zohran Mamdani and Jonathan Greenblatt:
www.truthdig.com/cartoons/whi...
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Switzerland nears deal to cut US tariffs to 15% after business push on.ft.com/4nNeTDO
Switzerland nears deal to cut US tariffs to 15% after business push
European country hopes to reduce levy from 39% after business leaders stepped in to drive the talks forward
on.ft.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Switzerland nears deal to cut US tariffs to 15% after business push on.ft.com/4nNeTDO
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Lebanese authorities released the son of late Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi on Monday after he paid a $900,000 bail, ending his 10-year detention for allegedly withholding information about a missing Lebanese cleric, security officials and a member of his defense team said. https://cnn.it/4iciIRX
November 10, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Lebanese authorities released the son of late Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi on Monday after he paid a $900,000 bail, ending his 10-year detention for allegedly withholding information about a missing Lebanese cleric, security officials and a member of his defense team said. https://cnn.it/4iciIRX
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Jury selection begins in trial of ex-Cuomo aide accused of covertly working for China @uebey.bsky.social
www.courthousenews.com/jury-selecti...
www.courthousenews.com/jury-selecti...
Jury selection begins in trial of ex-Cuomo aide accused of covertly working for China
Linda Sun was formerly a high-ranking aide in New York’s government. Now, she and her husband face potential prison time, accused of taking bribes from Chinese officials.
www.courthousenews.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Jury selection begins in trial of ex-Cuomo aide accused of covertly working for China @uebey.bsky.social
www.courthousenews.com/jury-selecti...
www.courthousenews.com/jury-selecti...
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“No other countries have followed the United States in withdrawing from the Paris climate agreement, but the Trump administration is using a mix of lobbying and economic threats to thwart emissions-cutting and environmental initiatives around the world.” — apple.news/AVqou9Os1T_S...
U.S. skips COP30 climate conference, lobbies to sink new global deals — The Washington Post
The Trump administration is using lobbying and economic threats to thwart emissions-cutting and environmental initiatives around the world.
apple.news
November 10, 2025 at 11:58 PM
“No other countries have followed the United States in withdrawing from the Paris climate agreement, but the Trump administration is using a mix of lobbying and economic threats to thwart emissions-cutting and environmental initiatives around the world.” — apple.news/AVqou9Os1T_S...