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Bankruptcy Maze
The story shows how navigating the complex system of bankruptcy court records can uncover tantalizing details.
Tags: bankruptcy; assets; court records; trustee
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City Assets: Financial meltdown prompts reporting of flawed San Diego real estate records
The authors describe how they built their own database of property records to help them understand San Diego's confusing real estate problems. The authors go on to explain how their database brought to light many discrepancies in the city's own records, and how the investigation forced San Diego's government to clean up its act.
Tags: real estate; property; city maintenance; city government; computer-assisted reporting
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Federal Money: Security officials equally confounded by list documenting state's critical assets
First Dalmer describes the super-strict regulations guarding Iowa's list of critical assets to protect in the face of a terrorist attack. Dalmer points out how some of the locations were very unexpected, and how others that should be on the list were neglected. Even the officials he interviewed did not understand why certain places, like a windmill museum, were on the list.
Tags: homeland security; terrorism; targets; federal grant money
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Boston Globe's probe details shady accounting
A six-part investigative series by The Boston Globe unveiled widespread abuse of private charitable foundation assets by their officers and directors. The Globe also found that such charitable organizations operate with little scrutiny because the IRS only audits a tiny percentage of the 60,000 private charitable foundations in the United States.
Tags: nonprofits; charities; foundations; IRS
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Prowling through Mormon power
Devonda Byers reviews "America's Saints: The Rise of Mormon Power" by Robert Gottlieb and Peter Wiley, a book rise of the influence of the Mormon church, which has more than 5 million members worldwide.
Tags: religion; nonprofit status; assets; income