Shayna Jacobs,
Shayna Jacobs is a federal courts and law enforcement reporter on the national security team at The Washington Post, where she covers the Southern and Eastern districts of New York. She previously covered courts and crime for the New York Daily News, including numerous high-profile arrests and lawsuits, as well as major news events like Hurricane Sandy. Jacobs has served as an assistant adjunct professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She graduated from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism with an MS and Montclair State University with a BA in History.
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The Daily's Verdict
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Bias
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Examples:
- The prosecution said Tuesday, particularly the veteran lawmaker’s ‘preposterous’ assertion that he didn’t know the piles of money and other treasures were in his bedroom closet because his wife kept its door locked.
Conflicts of Interest
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Examples:
- The prosecution said Tuesday, particularly the veteran lawmaker’s ‘preposterous’ assertion that he didn’t know the piles of money and other treasures were in his bedroom closet because his wife kept its door locked.
Contradictions
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Examples:
- Evidence found during a search warrant at Menendez’s home included over $480,000 in cash and some gold bars worth over $60,000 each.
- Menendez is accused of trying to have Philip Sellinger appointed as U.S. attorney in New Jersey to stop an investigation into real estate developer Fred Daibes.
- Menendez is charged with offering favors and influence in exchange for hundreds of thousands of dollars in gifts.
- Menendez promised to advance a resolution before the Foreign Relations Committee praising Qatar for its efforts to evacuate people from Afghanistan.
- Sen. Bob Menendez is on trial for 16 felony counts including bribery, extortion and acting as a foreign agent.
Deceptions
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Examples:
- Assistant U.S. Attorney Paul Monteleoni scoffed at the idea that Menendez’s wife, Nadine, secretly hoarded thousands of dollars she collected without his knowledge, saying ‘He obviously had access to the closet in his own bedroom.’
- The government's closing argument as Menendez’s two-month corruption trial nears an end reminded jurors of all they had seen and heard in testimony: the incriminating text messages, origins of all that cash and the value of the brick-sized ingots, as well as Menendez’s effort to handpick a New Jersey federal prosecutor who he believed would derail a friend’s 2018 indictment for bank fraud.
- What your common sense tells you is the cash and gold was part of a corrupt quid pro quo.
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Broke On: Tuesday, 14 May 2024On May 14, 2024, Michael Cohen, Trump's former lawyer, testified in a Manhattan criminal court about hush money payments to Stormy Daniels. Cohen provided evidence that Trump falsified business records to conceal these payments and was involved in their arrangement. Despite defense attempts to discredit him, Cohen remained composed and did not provide inconsistencies. 
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Former White House Communications Director Hope Hicks Testifies in Trump's Criminal Trial Over Alleged Business Record Falsifications
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