Investigative reporter for @GlobeSpotlight. Formerly @MiamiHerald. Tampa native. @UF grad. Signal: jaf.59 | Encrypted email: [email protected]
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Tony Richards II failed to disclose that he had purchased a house from two developers whom he awarded $1.4 million in grants. The Globe found that the developers went on to submit a series of bogus invoices.
✍️ w/@GordonRussell1
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‘A massive betrayal’: Former Steward Health Care clinicians face financial ruin as insurer implodes trib.al/NiKXivT
Impact from the latest @GlobeSpotlight investigation by @GlobeKayLazar @neena_hagen & @TriciaNadolny:
Massachusetts regulators moved to revoke licenses of all 12 RegalCare nursing homes
✍️ Lazar & @GordonRussell1
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From @GlobeSpotlight: After a New Jersey man bought up nursing homes around Massachusetts, some of the state's best-rated facilities fell to among the worst.
Patient care plummeted. Veteran staff fled. And the state kept letting him buy more. trib.al/wnSGCbM
ALT Text on the card reads: “The Boston Globe Spotlight. He’s buying Mass. nursing homes, cutting budgets, and driving down care. The state keeps signing off.”
In case you’ve been living under a rock and missed this, a must-read from @Annalisa_Quinn
A lesbian bar in Greenfield eased its stringent mask mandate, a decision that has splintered the queer community in the city and beyond. trib.al/FyZjBWs
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A South Shore heating and air conditioning contractor is accused of defrauding Mass. ratepayers of nearly $8 million in Mass Save funds. trib.al/QIHNmLC
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Heat-pump contractor accused of ‘staggering fraud’ of nearly $8 million from Mass Save bostonglobe.com/2026/09/22/m… via @BostonGlobe @StephanieEbbert
Heat-pump contractor accused of ‘staggering fraud’ of nearly $8 million from Mass Save
✍️ @StephanieEbbert
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Last Ditch Bar in Greenfield wanted to build community. They got a firestorm instead.
✍️ @Annalisa_Quinn
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I'm the @BostonGlobe's new sports investigative reporter. Seeking untold stories of money, power, misconduct at all levels of sports in Boston & beyond.
Tips: [email protected] or Signal at aaron_leibowitz.01. I take confidentiality seriously. bostonglobemedia.com/aaron-l…
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The Miami Herald without a Miami City Hall reporter… unfathomable.
I am one of the reporters who lost their jobs in the wave of McClatchy layoffs last week
Covering Miami City Hall has been fulfilling and challenging in the best way possible. Thanks to everyone who’s followed my work at @MiamiHerald these last 4 years
Stories I loved covering:
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Our coverage won’t recover from McClatchy’s slashing of two dozen essential Herald journalists.
It also upended peoples’ lives & families reliant on Herald loved ones to pay tuition, medical costs and bills.
Support our laid off colleagues here:
gofundme.com/f/support-laid-…
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If you’ve valued Miami Herald coverage and want to help with a fundraiser for newsroom staff who lost their jobs in mass layoffs imposed by the Herald’s owner, there is a GoFundMe page below. gofundme.com/f/support-laid-…
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We would appreciate any and all help for our colleagues, who are stellar journos and people. We are a lesser place without them.
Yesterday, a combined 23 guild journalists from the Miami Herald, El Nuevo Herald and Bradenton Herald were laid off by McClatchy.
We have launched a GoFundMe to help our colleagues, whose livelihoods and families have been upended by this decision. gofund.me/85e427c56
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This is one of the bleakest media layoff memos I’ve seen in 12 years covering the industry. Ugh.
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A really sad day. This is the paper that made the nation care about Jeffrey Epstein and helped uncover the Hope Florida scandal alongside @TB_Times.
Florida needs the @MiamiHerald
The @MiamiHerald eliminated 30 positions today including excellent City of Miami beat reporter @tessriski & legend @kaufsports.
The Miami Beach beat reporter was open but won’t be filled.
Is the Miami Herald going to cover the City of Miami anymore?
Local journalism matters.
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Really tough news for Florida journalism.
The @MiamiHerald eliminated 30 positions today including excellent City of Miami beat reporter @tessriski & legend @kaufsports.
The Miami Beach beat reporter was open but won’t be filled.
Is the Miami Herald going to cover the City of Miami anymore?
Local journalism matters.
Very sad & disheartened to see so many hard-working journalists in Miami laid off today. Same for sibling papers in Bradenton, Lexington, KC & others. @mcclatchy & its hedge fund owner Chatham Asset Mgmt have decimated local news orgs & killed essential local coverage.
The @MiamiHerald eliminated 30 positions today including excellent City of Miami beat reporter @tessriski & legend @kaufsports.
The Miami Beach beat reporter was open but won’t be filled.
Is the Miami Herald going to cover the City of Miami anymore?
Local journalism matters.