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Why Haven’t Bankers Been Punished? Just Read These Insider SEC Emails
by Jesse Eisinger This story was co-published with The New Yorker. It is not subject to our Creative Commons license. In the late summer of 2009, lawyers at the Securities and Exchange Commission were...
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New York Hospital to Pay $2.2 Million Fine for Allowing Filming of Patients...
by Charles Ornstein This story was co-published with The New York Times. NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital has agreed to pay a $2.2 million penalty to federal regulators for allowing television crews to...
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Foiled by FOIL: How One City Agency Has Dragged Out a Request for Public...
by Joaquin Sapien Ten months ago, three teenaged boys who had escaped from a group home in Brooklyn were arrested for the violent assault and rape of a woman in Manhattan. The boys had been placed in...
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Chat with the Lawyer Who Wrote the Nuisance Abatement Law and the Reporter...
In the 1970s, Times Square was a very different place, filled with streetwalkers, porn shops, and brothels disguised as fleabag motels. Efforts to clean up the neighborhood proved futile. Police would...
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The NYPD is Running Stings Against Immigrant-Owned Shops, Then Pushing For...
by Sarah Ryley for ProPublica and the New York Daily News, ProPublica Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment Donate Edwin Torres for ProPublica The NYPD is Running Stings Against Immigrant-Owned...
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Mexican Human Rights Defenders Say They Are Target of Smear Campaign
by Ginger Thompson Last Saturday, I was surprised and somewhat alarmed when an email came in from one of Mexico’s most prominent human rights defenders. “Can we talk?” read the subject line. “It’s...
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South Korean Slave Labor, Chicago’s Flawed Policing and More in MuckReads Weekly
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SRSLY: That Wild Alaskan Pollock Is Frozen Chinese Pollock?
by David Epstein SRSLY The best reporting you probably missed David Epstein Welcome to SRSLY, an (experimental) newsletter highlighting under-exposed accountability journalism. We'll distill the...
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Uncovering the Fiction of ‘Farm to Table’ Food
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Mexico Finds It Easier to Focus on Trump Than Its Own Failings
by Ginger Thompson This story was co-published with The New York Times. During my many years as a correspondent in Mexico, some of my best reporting happened around dinner tables. So on a recent trip...
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NY Lawmakers Discuss Tougher Oversight for Nurses
by Rosalind Adams, Jessica Huseman and Daniela Porat for ProPublica, New York legislators say they are discussing how to tighten regulation of nurses after a recent ProPublica investigation found...
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FDA to Massachusetts Group Home: Stop Shocking Disabled Residents
by Heather Vogell Federal officials have moved to ban the controversial electric shock device a Boston-area group home and school has used for decades on its disabled clients. In a 124-page document...
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Vietnam Vets Push VA to Link Bladder Cancer to Agent Orange
by Mike Hixenbaugh, The Virginian-Pilot, and Charles Ornstein and Terry Parris Jr., ProPublica, This story was co-published with The Virginian-Pilot. Alan Eller has spent more than a decade trying to...
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Wear Patterns: How What’s Missing Can Help Us See Data Better
by Lena Groeger Visual Evidence Data and design in everyday life Lena Groeger It started with some colored pencils. A little girl said her favorite color was pink. Her dad said he could prove her...
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Groups Mull Suits Over Police Stings Aimed at Immigrant-owned Stores
by Sarah Ryley for ProPublica, This story was co-published with the New York Daily News. The Bodega Association is considering a lawsuit against New York City in response to an investigation by the...
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For Nebraska’s Poor, Get Sick and Get Sued
by Paul Kiel This story was co-published with The Daily Beast. Two years ago, the president of Credit Management Services, a collection agency in Grand Island, Nebraska, presented a struggling local...
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Represent: Browse Lawmakers, Votes and Bills
by Derek Willis You can browse the latest votes and bills, see how often lawmakers vote against their parties and compare voting records.
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Sen. Cornyn Files Bill to Speed Texas Hurricane Study
by Kiah Collier, The Texas Tribune, This story was co-published with The Texas Tribune. U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, has filed legislation to expedite a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers study that will...
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NYPD Chief: Police ‘Will Continue to Aggressively Enforce Nuisance Abatement’
by Sarah Ryley and Rocco Parascandola for ProPublica, Police Commissioner Bill Bratton strongly defended the department’s use of nuisance abatement actions Thursday saying they were a critical law...
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SRSLY: Real Estate Vampires of Milwaukee
by David Epstein SRSLY The best reporting you probably missed David Epstein Welcome to SRSLY, an (experimental) newsletter highlighting under-exposed accountability journalism. We'll distill the...
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