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Javier Loya, the co-CEO of Houston-based OTC Global Holdings and a minority owner of the Texans, will pay a $100 fine to drop a first-degree rape charge and six charges of sexual assault via lucia kassai

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Our gun series just won the Renner Award from IRE! Honored to be part of the amazing Bloomberg investigations team.

Elon Musk is now officially Austin’s largest private employer: Gigafactory Texas headcount is now 22,777, per the annual compliance report Tesla just filed with Travis County. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg

Sad to hear of the passing of Dr. Garrick Bailey, who was a wealth of knowledge for anyone seeking to learn more about Osage history.

I'm grateful for the time he spent with us while reporting In Trust. You can listen to one of those conversations here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…

Never seen a high-level bribery scheme laid out more vividly than Jack Farchy, maria clara and pathurtado's story. And by high I mean the Vitol Group was making half a trillion dollars a year! The world's fifth biggest company by revenue bloomberg.com/features/2024-…

New: The story of the poor indigenous Peruvians working —sometimes even for free— helping the world’s richest person sell $9,000 vicuña sweaters

It is the finest wool in the world, but in the Andes, they see none of the wealth bloomberg.com/features/2024-…

Xcel Energy acknowledged that its equipment was likely involved in igniting the Smokehouse Creek fire, now considered the worst wildfire in Texas history via Mark Chediak and Will Wade

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IMPACT: New York's attorney general files a $1.4 billion lawsuit against Yellowstone Capital, the cash-advance pioneer whose aggressive collection tactics @zekefaux and I exposed in 2018. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg

I plan to do this newsletter for just a couple of years, make a bunch of money to put kids through school and do all those things, and no one’s hurt. bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

Excited to get my first byline for Bloomberg!

ICYMI: I'm now covering cybersecurity and hacking as part of a global team at Bloomberg Technology. Know something interesting? Ping me.

New from me: “The poster child for tax arbitrage.” How a fast-growing ETF called BOXX mimics returns from Treasuries, but with much lower taxes. Gift link: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

BREAKING: The University of Alabama at Birmingham has paused IVF treatments as it examines a ruling by the state’s Supreme Court that determined that frozen embryos should be considered children.

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During our time in Georgetown, some Guyanese people described the incoming oil wealth as 'life-changing,' while others felt completely left out by the economic wave sweeping through the nation. Watch the interviews in our Bloomberg Originals mini-doc here: bloomberg.com/news/videos/20…

Today in interesting bedfellows: the Louisiana Oil & Gas Association and Louisiana Landowners Association teaming up here against Energy Transfer. ET and Williams traded blows this week over the issue, which we wrote about, linked in the thread below

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This past year I had the privilege of teaming up with Naureen S. Malik, who just won a Front Page Award for her energy coverage. You've probably read her work, but if you've ever wanted to know more about the reporter behind the byline, watch this video:

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Power Trader Challenges New Texas Grid Policy Over Price Spikes w/ ⁦Rachel Adams-Heard⁩ bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

1/ Zachary Mider and I have been digging into a sanctions mystery: why do many ships suspected of carrying Iranian oil get their insurance from a tiny company in NYC called American Club?

NEW: Records show Texas officials received repeated warnings last summer that the way the state was procuring backup electricity risked raising wholesale power prices w/ Naureen S. Malik and Alex Campbell

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Dan Patrick, who pushed Texas to blacklist BlackRock, called Larry Fink 'the king of Wall Street' at the Houstonian this morning as he seeks to drum up investment in new power generation via Amanda Albright and Naureen S. Malik

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