Nick Muscavage
@muscavage.bsky.social
Legal and regulatory reporter at Agenda, a Financial Times Specialist publication covering corporate boards. Member of the FT Specialist Guild and WGAE.
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Data Shows Far Fewer SEC Investigations Since Inauguration Day
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Data Shows Far Fewer SEC Investigations Since Inauguration Day
Project 2025 Has Landed Hard at the SEC
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December 15, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Data Shows Far Fewer SEC Investigations Since Inauguration Day
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US prison reform campaigns focus on solitary confinement www.ft.com/content/59dc... via @financialtimes.com
US prison reform campaigns focus on solitary confinement
Excessive use of isolation — whether to punish prisoners or for convenience — is in the spotlight
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December 9, 2025 at 7:05 PM
US prison reform campaigns focus on solitary confinement www.ft.com/content/59dc... via @financialtimes.com
The White House is exploring measures to curb the influence of proxy advisers and index-fund managers, wading into a debate raised by CEOs including Elon Musk and Jamie Dimon www.wsj.com/finance/regu...
Exclusive | White House Explores Rules That Would Upend Shareholder Voting
Officials are discussing limits on influential proxy advisers including ISS and index-fund giants such as BlackRock.
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November 12, 2025 at 3:10 PM
The White House is exploring measures to curb the influence of proxy advisers and index-fund managers, wading into a debate raised by CEOs including Elon Musk and Jamie Dimon www.wsj.com/finance/regu...
A federal judge granted the Justice Department’s request to drop criminal charges against Boeing over two fatal 737 MAX crashes, despite objections from some victims’ families www.wsj.com/business/air...
Judge Agrees to Dismiss Boeing Criminal Case Tied to 737 MAX Crashes
The federal judge in Fort Worth, Texas, agreed with the Justice Department’s request despite objections from some victims’ families who wanted the case to go to trial.
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November 7, 2025 at 3:38 PM
A federal judge granted the Justice Department’s request to drop criminal charges against Boeing over two fatal 737 MAX crashes, despite objections from some victims’ families www.wsj.com/business/air...
Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show www.reuters.com/investigatio...
Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show
Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, and it internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day, company documents show.
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November 7, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show www.reuters.com/investigatio...
What Elon Musk needs to unlock a $1 trillion Tesla pay package www.wsj.com/business/aut...
The Hurdles Elon Musk Must Clear to Unlock $1 Trillion in Tesla Pay
Tesla shareholders must consider a complex web of stock-price milestones and operational goals.
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November 6, 2025 at 2:24 PM
What Elon Musk needs to unlock a $1 trillion Tesla pay package www.wsj.com/business/aut...
How the Trump companies made $1bn from crypto www.ft.com/content/2ea2... via @financialtimes.com
How the Trump companies made $1bn from crypto
The president and his family have built a rapidly growing digital assets empire which has been fuelled by the administration’s industry-friendly policies
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October 16, 2025 at 1:30 PM
How the Trump companies made $1bn from crypto www.ft.com/content/2ea2... via @financialtimes.com
Trump Administration Authorizes Covert C.I.A. Action in Venezuela www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
Trump Administration Authorizes Covert C.I.A. Action in Venezuela
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October 15, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Trump Administration Authorizes Covert C.I.A. Action in Venezuela www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
US demands EU dismantle green regulations in threat to trade deal www.ft.com/content/678f... via @financialtimes.com
US demands EU dismantle green regulations in threat to trade deal
Washington wants American companies to be exempted from rules such as having to draw up climate transition plans
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October 8, 2025 at 2:50 PM
US demands EU dismantle green regulations in threat to trade deal www.ft.com/content/678f... via @financialtimes.com
As the judges remark in their opinion, the use of generative AI by lawyers is now everywhere, and when it is used in ways that introduce fake citations or fake evidence, it is bogging down courts all over America (and the world), per @404media.co
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18 Lawyers Caught Using AI Explain Why They Did It
Lawyers blame IT, family emergencies, their own poor judgment, their assistants, illness, and more.
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October 3, 2025 at 2:58 PM
As the judges remark in their opinion, the use of generative AI by lawyers is now everywhere, and when it is used in ways that introduce fake citations or fake evidence, it is bogging down courts all over America (and the world), per @404media.co
www.404media.co/18-lawyers-c...
www.404media.co/18-lawyers-c...
Why law firms want to recruit more data scientists www.ft.com/content/0b89...
Why law firms want to recruit more data scientists
AI is making new demands on lawyers but do they need to learn programming?
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September 19, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Why law firms want to recruit more data scientists www.ft.com/content/0b89...
Want your company’s merger approved? Pay a MAGA influencer.
A former Trump appointee alleges the DOJ is letting firms buy exemptions from anti-monopoly laws.
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A former Trump appointee alleges the DOJ is letting firms buy exemptions from anti-monopoly laws.
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Want your company’s merger approved? Pay a MAGA influencer.
A former Trump appointee alleges the DOJ is letting firms buy exemptions from anti-monopoly laws.
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August 25, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Want your company’s merger approved? Pay a MAGA influencer.
A former Trump appointee alleges the DOJ is letting firms buy exemptions from anti-monopoly laws.
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A former Trump appointee alleges the DOJ is letting firms buy exemptions from anti-monopoly laws.
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Intel and the Trump administration are discussing the possibility of the U.S. government taking a financial stake in the chip maker www.wsj.com/tech/us-stak...
The U.S. Is Discussing Taking a Stake in Intel
The deal talks follow President Trump’s public call for the replacement of CEO Lip-Bu Tan over his ties to Chinese businesses.
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August 15, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Intel and the Trump administration are discussing the possibility of the U.S. government taking a financial stake in the chip maker www.wsj.com/tech/us-stak...
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NEW: Nathan Albers once co-owned a company that schemed to hire and conceal undocumented workers.
Now his company could make hundreds of millions from work on the nation's largest detention camp.
“The irony is thick,” said a former DHS official.
Now his company could make hundreds of millions from work on the nation's largest detention camp.
“The irony is thick,” said a former DHS official.
His Former Company Got Caught Employing Undocumented Workers. Now He’s Profiting Off an Immigrant Detention Camp.
Disaster Management Group is one contractor behind the nation’s largest detention camp, to be built at Fort Bliss. It’s run by Nathan Albers, who previously co-owned a company that pleaded guilty to a...
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July 25, 2025 at 11:15 AM
NEW: Nathan Albers once co-owned a company that schemed to hire and conceal undocumented workers.
Now his company could make hundreds of millions from work on the nation's largest detention camp.
“The irony is thick,” said a former DHS official.
Now his company could make hundreds of millions from work on the nation's largest detention camp.
“The irony is thick,” said a former DHS official.
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U.S. Treasury Department is now accepting Venmo and PayPal payments from those who want to donate money to reduce the nation's $36.7 trillion debt — NYP
July 25, 2025 at 5:43 PM
U.S. Treasury Department is now accepting Venmo and PayPal payments from those who want to donate money to reduce the nation's $36.7 trillion debt — NYP
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Please read this first-person essay from Lanae Tipton, an incarcerated journalist in Texas with a desperate plea for air conditioning in prisons. She’s watched women seize on the floor from the heat. As one prison staffer said, “I vomited blood.”
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I Watched a Woman Nearly Die in a Cell Across From Mine. Texas Prisons Need Air Conditioning.
More than two-thirds of Texas’ 100 prisons don’t have air conditioning — that can mean the difference between life and death.
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July 25, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Please read this first-person essay from Lanae Tipton, an incarcerated journalist in Texas with a desperate plea for air conditioning in prisons. She’s watched women seize on the floor from the heat. As one prison staffer said, “I vomited blood.”
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Meta trial becomes test of board culpability over corporate scandals www.ft.com/content/19a5...
Meta trial becomes test of board culpability over corporate scandals
Delaware court to hear testimony from Mark Zuckerberg, executives and directors in rare case that begins this week
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July 14, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Meta trial becomes test of board culpability over corporate scandals www.ft.com/content/19a5...
T-Mobile tells FCC it's scrapping DEI as it waits for deal approvals from the agency www.businessinsider.com/fcc-tmobile-...
T-Mobile tells FCC it's scrapping DEI as it waits for deal approvals from the agency
Other companies that have pulled back on DEI practices in recent months include Salesforce, Amazon, Google, and Target.
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July 10, 2025 at 4:59 PM
T-Mobile tells FCC it's scrapping DEI as it waits for deal approvals from the agency www.businessinsider.com/fcc-tmobile-...
The need for lawyers to master the tech tools is well-established. Now, with generative AI, law firms and law schools alike are focusing more than ever on how the next generation of lawyers will broaden their skills. www.ft.com/content/5b00...
Skills to future-proof a legal career
Law students must learn how to oversee work done by generative AI
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June 25, 2025 at 1:56 PM
The need for lawyers to master the tech tools is well-established. Now, with generative AI, law firms and law schools alike are focusing more than ever on how the next generation of lawyers will broaden their skills. www.ft.com/content/5b00...
Big law firms’ adoption of generative artificial intelligence is well under way across the globe, but their corporate clients say they are yet to see cost savings. In fact, the price for outside legal services continues to rise. www.ft.com/content/cba8...
Law firm clients seek clarity on AI’s potential to cut costs
Companies are yet to see savings from the new technology as bills for legal work continue to rise
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May 29, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Big law firms’ adoption of generative artificial intelligence is well under way across the globe, but their corporate clients say they are yet to see cost savings. In fact, the price for outside legal services continues to rise. www.ft.com/content/cba8...
Tiny Company With China Ties Announces Big Purchase of Trump Cryptocurrency www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/u...
Tiny Company With China Ties Announces Big Purchase of Trump Cryptocurrency
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May 14, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Tiny Company With China Ties Announces Big Purchase of Trump Cryptocurrency www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/u...
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The health care conglomerate is facing mounting financial problems – and ongoing consumer anger over high costs and denied claims.
UnitedHealth Group abruptly replaces CEO Andrew Witty, deepening a terrible year
The health care conglomerate is facing mounting financial problems – and ongoing consumer anger over high costs and denied claims.
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May 13, 2025 at 3:52 PM
The health care conglomerate is facing mounting financial problems – and ongoing consumer anger over high costs and denied claims.
Tesla’s Board Chair Made $198 Million Selling Stock as Profit Fell www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/b...
Tesla’s Board Chair Made $198 Million Selling Stock as Profit Fell
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May 13, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Tesla’s Board Chair Made $198 Million Selling Stock as Profit Fell www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/b...
Microsoft Drops Law Firm That Made a Deal With Trump From a Case www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/b...
Microsoft Drops Simpson Thacher & Bartlett Law Firm from a Case
The tech giant instead engaged a firm that is fighting the president’s executive orders, Jenner & Block, in a sign that those firms can still attract clients.
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May 2, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Microsoft Drops Law Firm That Made a Deal With Trump From a Case www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/b...
Five Years After He Escaped in a Crate, Fugitive Carlos Ghosn Is Teaching Business Strategy www.wsj.com/business/aut...
Five Years After He Escaped in a Crate, Fugitive Carlos Ghosn Is Teaching Business Strategy
Ghosn lives in Lebanon where he teaches business strategy and avoids arrest warrants from Japan and France
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April 28, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Five Years After He Escaped in a Crate, Fugitive Carlos Ghosn Is Teaching Business Strategy www.wsj.com/business/aut...