A new court filing suggests Tyler Robinson was in police custody hours before he ‘confessed’ to Discord buddies and ‘surrendered’ to a cop friend. Is he a patsy after all?
Maureen Tkacik
Maureen Tkacik is investigations editor at the Prospect and a senior fellow at the American Economic Liberties Project.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Who Wrote the 25th Amendment?
It turns out he’s still alive, and still teaching at Fordham Law. We had some questions about an amendment that wasn’t written to meet a moment like this.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Private Credit Cartels
Wall Street wants you to believe AI is to blame for the incipient credit crisis. But the crappy software loans spooking investors are the products of old-economy greed and brazen collusion.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Private Equity’s Great Escape
The industry bought companies for too much money and made a bunch of bad loans. Now they’re scrambling to avoid the reckoning.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Live Nation Settlement Spurs Chaos in Court
The deal contains a fairly useless set of conditions. More than two dozen states vow to continue fighting.
Posted inLaw and Justice
What You Won’t See at the Live Nation–Ticketmaster Trial
A Biden-appointed judge substantially narrowed the government’s bid to break up the music monopoly, and suppressed a few topics we’d really like to see play out on the stand.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Newspapers Did Not Kill Themselves
New docs say Jeffrey Epstein collaborated with the Russian mob to loot the New York Daily News, then tried to help Mort Zuckerman discard it when reporting became inconvenient.
Posted inSports
The Roots of the Youth Sports Gold Rush
Steve Griffin got in on the ground floor with the John D. Rockefeller of youth sports. The climb out of the basement taught him that finance and kids’ sports are a toxic mix.
Posted inPolitics
Impeach President Miller
The mastermind of the Trump regime’s descent into gangsterism is arguably more dangerous than the Orange One himself.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
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