George Joseph
@georgejoseph94.bsky.social
Investigative reporter for The Guardian US
“By their fruits, you will know them.”
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Email: george.joseph@theguardian.com
“By their fruits, you will know them.”
Signal: 929-486-4865
Email: george.joseph@theguardian.com
“As UnitedHealth Group faces government investigations and changes in federal payments that have hurt its results, it is turning to an increasingly common Washington playbook: hiring Donald Trump’s allies”:
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Exclusive | UnitedHealth Is Spending Big on Trump Allies to Fix Its Washington Problems
The largest U.S. health insurer’s Medicare business faces investigations and policy threats.
www.wsj.com
September 14, 2025 at 3:04 PM
“As UnitedHealth Group faces government investigations and changes in federal payments that have hurt its results, it is turning to an increasingly common Washington playbook: hiring Donald Trump’s allies”:
www.wsj.com/business/uni...
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Israel justified its strike on the Nasser Hospital, which killed six journalists and more than a dozen others, by claiming a "Hamas" camera was set up there.
The location they attacked is where Reuters and the AP livestream.
From me and others (see byline/contribs)
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/w...
The location they attacked is where Reuters and the AP livestream.
From me and others (see byline/contribs)
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/w...
Israel Says It Attacked Gaza Hospital to Destroy Camera Placed by Hamas
www.nytimes.com
August 26, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Israel justified its strike on the Nasser Hospital, which killed six journalists and more than a dozen others, by claiming a "Hamas" camera was set up there.
The location they attacked is where Reuters and the AP livestream.
From me and others (see byline/contribs)
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/w...
The location they attacked is where Reuters and the AP livestream.
From me and others (see byline/contribs)
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/w...
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BREAKING: Eric Adams Advisor Winnie Greco Handed a CITY Reporter Cash Stuffed in a Bag of Potato Chips
www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/20/w...
www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/20/w...
Eric Adams Advisor Winnie Greco Handed a CITY Reporter Cash Stuffed in a Bag of Potato Chips
THE CITY reported the incident to law enforcement and was promptly contacted by the Brooklyn U.S. attorney’s office.
www.thecity.nyc
August 20, 2025 at 11:38 PM
BREAKING: Eric Adams Advisor Winnie Greco Handed a CITY Reporter Cash Stuffed in a Bag of Potato Chips
www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/20/w...
www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/20/w...
Senators Ron Wyden & Elizabeth Warren are asking UnitedHealth to hand over company records about its attempts to reduce hospitalizations for nursing home residents—following our investigation:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Senators seek UnitedHealth records on push to curb nursing home hospitalizations
Ron Wyden and Elizabeth Warren sent a letter to the healthcare conglomerate on Thursday citing a Guardian investigation
www.theguardian.com
August 7, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Senators Ron Wyden & Elizabeth Warren are asking UnitedHealth to hand over company records about its attempts to reduce hospitalizations for nursing home residents—following our investigation:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Declarado culpable el expresidente de Colombia Álvaro Uribe por soborno de testigos en actuación penal
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.
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July 28, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Declarado culpable el expresidente de Colombia Álvaro Uribe por soborno de testigos en actuación penal
@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:
www.thecity.nyc/2025/07/24/e...
“I don’t really work. Where would I get this much money?” one supposed Adams donor said:
www.thecity.nyc/2025/07/24/e...
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.
www.thecity.nyc
July 24, 2025 at 2:05 PM
@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:
www.thecity.nyc/2025/07/24/e...
“I don’t really work. Where would I get this much money?” one supposed Adams donor said:
www.thecity.nyc/2025/07/24/e...
“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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www.wsj.com/us-news/prot...
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.”
www.wsj.com
June 11, 2025 at 2:51 PM
“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.”
www.wsj.com/us-news/prot...
www.wsj.com/us-news/prot...
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:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
And Sen @wyden.senate.gov launches his own investigation into the healthcare giant:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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
www.theguardian.com
June 11, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
And Sen @wyden.senate.gov launches his own investigation into the healthcare giant:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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...
Company tactics resulted in delayed/avoided hospitalizations for seniors who needed care. One suffered permanent brain damage:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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
www.theguardian.com
May 21, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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...
Company tactics resulted in delayed/avoided hospitalizations for seniors who needed care. One suffered permanent brain damage:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
This follows a @us.theguardian.com investigation into one of the state’s most expensive chains:
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
www.theguardian.com
May 12, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
This follows a @us.theguardian.com investigation into one of the state’s most expensive chains:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Journalism matters. This follows reporting by @georgejoseph94.bsky.social, @wcraft.bsky.social, and @jessicaglenza.bsky.social 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
www.theguardian.com
May 12, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Journalism matters. This follows reporting by @georgejoseph94.bsky.social, @wcraft.bsky.social, and @jessicaglenza.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
“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.”
www.syracuse.com/news/2025/04...
www.syracuse.com/news/2025/04...
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.”
www.syracuse.com
April 21, 2025 at 3:23 PM
“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.”
www.syracuse.com/news/2025/04...
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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...
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.
www.politico.com
March 19, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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...
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:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
This is the same developer who let the mayor’s son stay overnight with a woman in a taxpayer-funded room at her hotel:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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
www.theguardian.com
March 19, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
This is the same developer who let the mayor’s son stay overnight with a woman in a taxpayer-funded room at her hotel:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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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.
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.
March 13, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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.
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.
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
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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
www.theguardian.com
March 12, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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.
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
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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
www.theguardian.com
March 12, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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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:
www.propublica.org/article/nati...
These and other “controversial" or "sensitive” topics will get extra scrutiny at the National Cancer Institute under RFK.
From me + @lisalsong.bsky.social:
www.propublica.org/article/nati...
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.
www.propublica.org
March 10, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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:
www.propublica.org/article/nati...
These and other “controversial" or "sensitive” topics will get extra scrutiny at the National Cancer Institute under RFK.
From me + @lisalsong.bsky.social:
www.propublica.org/article/nati...
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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...
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.
www.nbcwashington.com
February 25, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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...
Eric Adams ran on protecting immigrants. Now he’s helping Trump deport them.
My latest on the mayor’s conversion:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
My latest on the mayor’s conversion:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
‘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
www.theguardian.com
February 21, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Eric Adams ran on protecting immigrants. Now he’s helping Trump deport them.
My latest on the mayor’s conversion:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
My latest on the mayor’s conversion:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The family appealed + won. But United cut his coverage again—then again.
He gave up. He died 5 days later:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘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
www.theguardian.com
February 13, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The family appealed + won. But United cut his coverage again—then again.
He gave up. He died 5 days later:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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:
www.thecity.nyc/2024/11/27/a...
Now the FBI has raided both the reverend’s home + the developer’s hotel:
www.thecity.nyc/2024/11/27/a...
November 28, 2024 at 1:07 AM
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:
www.thecity.nyc/2024/11/27/a...
Now the FBI has raided both the reverend’s home + the developer’s hotel:
www.thecity.nyc/2024/11/27/a...
New: Federal agents raid hotel owned by developer accused of funneling straw donations to NYC Mayor Eric Adams + scoring millions in city contracts as a result.
The raid follows a months-long investigation into the developer by me + colleagues:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
The raid follows a months-long investigation into the developer by me + colleagues:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
Federal agents raid hotel owned by Eric Adams supporter linked to suspicious donations
Weihong Hu, a New York City hotel developer, was previously the subject of a joint investigation by the Guardian, the City and Documented
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2024 at 11:26 PM
New: Federal agents raid hotel owned by developer accused of funneling straw donations to NYC Mayor Eric Adams + scoring millions in city contracts as a result.
The raid follows a months-long investigation into the developer by me + colleagues:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
The raid follows a months-long investigation into the developer by me + colleagues:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...