Hannah Levintova
Special Projects Editor & reporter at Mother Jones focused on business investigations. Spreadsheets are my love language. hlevintova@motherjones.com, DM for Signal.
- Tresasury Sec Scott Bessent just told the House Financial Services Committee that there will be a Super Bowl ad this weekend for the new Trump accounts for babies. Who is paying for that pricey commercial?
- A secret family office is quite something. Wow.
- 🚨EPSTEIN'S SECRET FAMILY OFFICE REVEALED 🚨 Paul Barrett was Jeffrey Epstein's longtime private banker at JPMorgan What has never been reported until now: he set up a family office to trade on Epstein's behalf in the last years of the sex offender's life as.ft.com/r/8101f34a-f...
- Wow, this story. It is so telling of the news landscape we live in that a not-so-mini bank bailout seems to be happening as we speak and...almost no one has noticed.
- 🚨NEWS: The Fed has quietly delivered nearly HALF A TRILLION DOLLARS of no-strings-attached bank bailouts in the last few months, according to documents reviewed by The Lever. The new bailouts are already 60% of the amount of the financial crisis TARP bailout. www.levernews.com/the-federal-...
- I am so thrilled and grateful to get this funding from the McGraw business journalism fellowship @newmarkjplus.bsky.social to keep reporting on for-profit healthcare with @acleek.bsky.social ! www.journalism.cuny.edu/2026/01/inve...
- I talked to @jasonfurman.bsky.social about the Trump admin's decision to launch a first-in-history criminal inquiry into Fed chair Jay Powell—and what happened in other countries when leaders compromised central bank independence. (Tl;dr it wasn't good!) www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
- Reposted by Hannah LevintovaThe administration is freezing $10B in child care and anti-poverty funding in five states—putting care for hundreds of thousands of working-class families at risk. Cuts or delays this large will strain providers, disrupt quality care for children, and could force working parents out of their jobs.
- BREAKING: The Trump administration is suspending $10 billion intended for child care and poor families in five blue states. www.axios.com/2026/01/05/t...
- YES. Thayer Street businesses need our $ right now and East Side Pockets is the absolute GOAT. My go-to order is a gyro-falafel combo wrap! Also low-key the best waffle fries in Providence.
- Reposted by Hannah LevintovaProvidence people - I’m working on a story about how residents first learned about the Brown shooting. Word of mouth, social media, official alerts? Feel free to DM me if you’re willing to share your experience (would need to use your full name)
- Reposted by Hannah Levintovamay be biased because she's a friend, but this piece by @h-lev.bsky.social is the best piece I've read summing up the mood in Providence right now www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
- As a Brown alum and Providence resident, I have been trying to find the right words to capture the vast grief layered across this community and the people who love it. In the end, I’m not sure if it’s really, fully possible to articulate. But I tried: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
- And if I may—I deliberately put a lot of links to local coverage into this piece, from The Providence Journal especially. In moments like these, please read and subscribe to the local journalists doing this work! www.providencejournal.com/live-story/n...
- Reposted by Hannah LevintovaThe longer that the Brown shooter goes un-caught, the more room there will be for the spread of conspiracy theories, misinformation, AI junk, and all manner of racist/xenophobic speculation. This worries me. And we're already seeing it.
- Reposted by Hannah LevintovaA lovely, sad, and haunting piece about Providence and Brown University—before and after the shooting—from @h-lev.bsky.social.
- Reposted by Hannah LevintovaWhy does it matter that Pulte promoted $ZACK to his 3 million followers on X? As one expert told @h-lev.bsky.social, "The only people who make money are the people who usually get in before the coin is even launched.”
- Reposted by Hannah LevintovaNEW from @h-lev.bsky.social: Inside the curious case of FHFA head Bill Pulte and the memecoin $ZACK www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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- New from me: The mysterious tale of Bill Pulte and a memecoin named after Zack Morris from Saved by the Bell www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
- New from me: The mysterious tale of Bill Pulte and a memecoin named after Zack Morris from Saved by the Bell www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
- Reposted by Hannah LevintovaWith news that there is no suspect in custody for the Brown shooting, Providence isn't just a grieving city. It's an *anxious and scared* grieving city. A dreadful time. And all of this is magnified for folks at/affiliated with Brown U.
- Reposted by Hannah LevintovaProud of the BDH journalists serving the mission under tough and tragic circumstances.
- The new Real Housewives of Rhode Island trailer is at the perfect nexus of unhinged and deeply Rhode Island specific. 10/10 no notes! www.instagram.com/reel/DRIKraR...
- Reposted by Hannah LevintovaCongrats to Bill Pulte for being named this week's Washington Main Character (Non-Epstein Division)
- My latest: The flood of revelations this week against FHFA Director Bill Pulte will make your head spin! www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
- I grew up in Allston as part of a family of immigrants. BU students are temporary guests in a corner of Boston that has long been a hub for immigrants from around the world. To do this (and to claim allegiance to the neighborhood along the way) is abhorrent.
- Not only is the GCB the perfect dive bar, but it is also a nonprofit, plus the owners will let you throw a rager of a wedding reception (I would know!). Glad it is getting its time to shine: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/23/m...
- This July, @acleek.bsky.social & I made a radio show about a major hospital landlord named Medical Properties Trust. Now, we’ve unraveled MPT's aggressive effort to silence and surveil its critics as they tried to raise alarm, using docs leaked to @occrp.org www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
- MPT owns and rents out nearly 400 facilities globally. A few years ago, journalists and financial analysts began pointing out that MPT might be hiding the fact that its hospitals were struggling under high rents. Things got intense; a critic’s bank account was hacked: revealnews.org/podcast/medi...
- What we found when we went through these leaked docs, though, is a much broader effort. MPT amassed an army of crisis management professionals to protect its reputation, eventually working alongside 3 crisis PR firms, 5 law firms, and 2 private intelligence firms. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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View full threadInternal emails show MPT’s top executives referring to the Wall Street Journal reporter who was writing about them as a “deranged, pretend journalist” whose sources, they claimed, were “absolutely fake.” “I’m tired of this guy, wrote MPT’s CEO. “It’s time we go on the offensive.”
- Looks like Pulte filed his backdated Form 3 yesterday, the day we published my story. Better 7 months late than never! fanniemae.gcs-web.com/static-files...
- New from me: In March, FHFA director Bill Pulte made himself chairman of the board of Fannie Mae. But after, he did not file a required disclosure form tied to the role with the SEC—the same kind of paperwork error he has used to attack Trump's political foes. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
- Reposted by Hannah LevintovaNEW from @h-lev.bsky.social: As chairman of the board of Fannie Mae, Bill Pulte was required to file a disclosure form with the SEC. He didn’t.
- New from me: In March, FHFA director Bill Pulte made himself chairman of the board of Fannie Mae. But after, he did not file a required disclosure form tied to the role with the SEC—the same kind of paperwork error he has used to attack Trump's political foes. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
- Some of the wishes on this list include getting rid of state regulation of children's online safety (to decrease costs, ofc), ending *all* state regulation of banking, and eliminating minimum and fair-wage requirements. Quite the lineup!
- The Trump administration asked corporations to identify regulatory “burdens” — now they’re building a hit list of their most hated consumer protection laws. www.levernews.com/corporate-am...
- This account is journalism on weekdays, but Rhode Island clambakes on the weekends
- Reposted by Hannah LevintovaBill Pulte has weaponized his office to attack Trump’s political enemies, including economist Lisa Cook. However, critics argue that Pulte's abuse of office is "a far, far greater offense than any personal mortgage occupancy fraud by a federal official."
- This study, published earlier this month, is quite striking. Especially because studying the impacts of PE ownership on hospitals is quite hard. The industry is opaque; plus, PE firms buy and then sell off the properties so fast that it's hard to track when something is or isn't PE-owned.
- Medicare patients who get emergency surgery in private-equity hospitals are 42% more likely to die in the next 30 days, according to new research. www.marketwatch.com/story/medica...
- And it is one more data point showing how the private equity business model isn't compatible with providing the best patient care. I wrote about another example for our latest issue, that of the PE-fueled Steward Health Care: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
- I wrote about the rise and fall of Steward Health Care—fueled by a private equity firm, a real estate trust, & multimillionaire executives. The saga is a stunning indictment of what happens when financiers try to squeeze huge returns from the places that save people's lives. /1 shorturl.at/TcvV7
- I read about the death of Sungida Rashid in @bostonglobe.com, at what is to this day’s my family’s neighborhood hospital. She died after Steward hadn’t paid the bill for the device that could have saved her. I wanted to know how many more families there might be like hers. /2
- Brilliant data wizard @melissa.news scraped every malpractice, personal injury, and wrongful death case tied to Steward hospitals. @idgordon.bsky.social and I sifted through them, and found 469 cases involving 83 patient deaths. Plus, a troubling pattern of problems in labor and delivery…/3
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View full threadHer baby Lilly died. Lisa's lawyer filed a motion to compel Steward to turn over records so she could figure out if understaffing led to this delay. Her filing was *5 days* before Steward declared bankruptcy. That paused the case. Which means she can't get company records anymore. /10
- Reposted by Hannah Levintova@h-lev.bsky.social and @melissa.news scraped every malpractice, personal injury, and wrongful death case tied to Steward hospitals in nine states. We found 469 cases involving 83 patient deaths. The chain's bankruptcy means many of these patients can't pursue justice: bit.ly/455xC7O
- Reposted by Hannah LevintovaSungida Rashid died after giving birth at a Massachusetts hospital run by the for-profit chain Steward Health Care. She wasn't alone: @h-lev.bsky.social and @melissa.news uncovered 12 more instances of moms and newborns who died at these hospitals over the last 14 years: bit.ly/455xC7O
- Reposted by Hannah LevintovaIt's impossible to read this story about a mom dying after childbirth and not be devastated and furious about everything that @h-lev.bsky.social found in her jaw-dropping investigation about America's biggest for-profit hospital operator www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
- Reposted by Hannah LevintovaA DOGE staffer involved in dismantling the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau holds as much as $365,000 worth of shares of companies that the CFPB can regulate. Ethics experts say his actions are a potential violation of federal ethics laws.
- Reposted by Hannah LevintovaNever a bad moment to revisit our blowout issue on private equity, kicked off by this banger of an essay by @h-lev.bsky.social: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
- Reposted by Hannah LevintovaThe roughly $2.5 billion California's insurer of last resort (FAIR) said it had lined up for quick claim fulfillment in 2024 is not even half of its nearly $6 billion exposure in the now-charred Palisades. www.motherjones.com/environment/...
- Reposted by Hannah LevintovaThis is exactly what happened in 2001, driven by the tax preparation industry, in order to kill a public option for tax reporting. The goal, then and now, is to force citizens to pay private companies in order to do their tax returns. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-the-ta...
- Reposted by Hannah LevintovaTrump’s Treasury Secretary nominee comes to the post from the hedge fund world where he lost 90% of the approximately $6 billion of assets entrusted to him. Nine zero. www.reuters.com/business/fin...
- Reposted by Hannah LevintovaSo the Republican plan to pay for their tax cuts for the wealthy is to...you'll never guess...kick low-income people off their health insurance! Party of the working class over here. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/h...
- Always read @sarahzhang.bsky.social
- wrote about RFK Jr., vaccines, and my most enduring memory from college German class www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
- Reposted by Hannah LevintovaThe Fed has a problem on the right, where it is increasingly seen as an arm of the Democratic establishment rather than as an apolitical technocracy. The political donation patterns of Fed system staff and boards of directors don't help. www.axios.com/2024/11/18/f...
- Reposted by Hannah LevintovaI want to use bluesky to share pieces that taught me stuff. Here's a list of great stories today: www.motherjones.com/politics/202... via @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202... via @smencimer.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc... via @jerusalem.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Hannah LevintovaMatt Gaetz 1 month after Roe was overturned: "Why is it that the women with the least likelihood of getting pregnant are the ones most worried about having abortions? Nobody wants to impregnate you if you look like a thumb." www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2...
- Here goes the earnest personal intro! I’m Hannah Levintova, Special Projects Editor @motherjones.bsky.social, mom, and resident of the Best State™️, Rhode Island. Reporting on business, especially private equity, is my jam (I have an MBA), говорю по-русски. Other loves: 10-Ks, thrifting, New England
- Reposted by Hannah LevintovaI’m sure others have already observed this but it’s hilarious that an efficiency commission requires two co-chairs
- Reposted by Hannah LevintovaI feel like this site's demographics can be described as "still mad about the loss of Google Reader"
