Nine days after The Standard published its investigation, a woman was handed court papers at a party. Emilia London had alleged Michael "Mickey" Gerold sex-trafficked her for two years. Now he wanted a restraining order against her. Anya Schultz found that while SFPD reassigned the case three times, losing months to a detective who never pulled security footage and another who went out on disability, Gerold filed seven legal actions and threatened at least ten more. He denies everything and has not been charged. London's laptop is still in evidence. She is too afraid to ask for it.
Roy Cohn's advice to a young developer facing a federal housing discrimination suit in 1973 was to countersue the government for $100 million. A judge threw it out as frivolous. Trump signed the consent decree anyway two years later, then told everyone he had won. Kai Bird and Susan Goldmark follow the education that came after: the Commodore tax abatement, mob concrete at Trump Tower, a sister lifted to a federal judgeship by a phone call. Cohn kept no notes and taught his student not to either. In 2017, mid-investigation, Trump was still asking where his Roy Cohn was.
Three Americans have died in an al-Qaeda attack on US soil since 2001, killed by a Saudi flight student at a Florida naval base. The bill for preventing that came to $8 trillion. Graeme Wood took the question to people who study the group for a living and got two irreconcilable answers. Bruce Hoffman describes franchises taxing Somalia and nearly toppling Mali. Cole Bunzel sees a handful of old men issuing statements nobody reads. Nelly Lahoud's work on the Abbottabad files suggests bin Laden was improvising all along. Silence proves whichever case you already believed.
Thirty-four percent of ice sampled from convenience stores that bag their own came back positive for staphylococcus. Lauren Larson spent time with the people who make the rest of it, including a Reddy Ice CFO who tracks national mood through sales volume. He watched consumption fall last year when immigration enforcement kept Latino families from gathering. Ice cools concrete so highways do not crack. It keeps MD Anderson's research samples viable and stabilizes heat patients in Big Bend. Summers keep getting hotter and the supply chain is entirely local, which nobody has a plan for.
