Marshall Cohen
Senior Reporter at CNN
CNN reporter. I cover major legal cases and Congressional investigations, often with a focus on democracy, elections and disinformation. From Philly.
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cnn.com | Marshall Cohen |Alli Rosenbloom
Drake at the Raptors-Warriors game in Toronto in January. Cole Burston/Getty Images CNN — Drake claims he was defamed by Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl halftime show, and at the Grammy Awards, where over 100 million combined television viewers heard Lamar’s notorious diss track “Not Like Us,” according to court filings. The Canadian rapper levied the new allegations Wednesday in an expanded federal defamation lawsuit against his own record label, Universal Music Group.
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yahoo.com | Evan Perez |Alayna Treene |Marshall Cohen
The Internal Revenue Service is making plans to rescind the tax-exempt status of Harvard University, according to two sources familiar with the matter, which would be an extraordinary step of retaliation as the Trump administration seeks to turn up pressure on the university that has defied its demands to change its hiring and other practices. A final decision on rescinding the university’s tax exemption is expected soon, the sources said.
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news8000.com | Marshall Cohen |Rene Marsh
Washington (CNN) — A staggering 25% of Internal Revenue Service employees are planning to take buyouts and resign, according to three sources with direct knowledge of the matter. The deadline for IRS employees to accept the latest round of “deferred resignation” buyout offers was Tuesday morning. The latest numbers indicate that roughly 22,000 people want to take the offer, the sources said.
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local3news.com | Catherine Shoichet |Marshall Cohen
(CNN) — Undocumented immigrants who’ve been paying taxes in the US are facing an unsettling possibility: This year, that may be used against them. A recent data-sharing deal between the Internal Revenue Service and the Department of Homeland Security is sparking widespread concern in immigrant communities – though some details about how the deal could work haven’t been disclosed.
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local3news.com | Evan Perez |Alayna Treene |Marshall Cohen
(CNN) — President Donald Trump is set to name Gary Shapley, the former IRS criminal investigator who alleged that the Justice Department slow-walked the investigation of Hunter Biden, as acting commissioner of the IRS, three people briefed on the matter told CNN. Shapley provided whistleblower testimony to Congress, as Republicans claimed partisan bias by Justice officials had hindered the investigation of the son of President Joe Biden.
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Multiple senior career IRS officials refused to sign the controversial data-sharing agreement with DHS because of grave concerns about its legality, a source tells CNN. That's why Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent ended up signing it. w/ @Rene_MarshCNN https://t.co/skFzcND9CO
NEWS: Up to 50 senior IT professionals at the IRS were placed on administrative leave Friday as the Trump admin. finalizes plans to share data with ICE. Sidelined staffers were in key positions to safeguard taxpayer privacy, sources say. w/ @Rene_MarshCNN https://t.co/WVJni3wGIJ
JUST IN: Federal appeals court rules 2-1 that Trump can fire the MSPB chair (merit board for federal workers) and an NRLB member (labor board), for now, while their lawsuits play out. A win for Trump's efforts to control independent agencies. Both officials are Biden appointees.
