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Cop's Book Says Sean Combs, Suge Knight Ordered Tupac and Biggie Killings
The LA Weekly investigation provided the public with the first big break in nearly a decade in the 14-year-old unsolved murder cases of rap superstars Tupac Shakur and Christopher "Biggie Smalls" Wallace.
Tags: Tupac, Biggie Smalls; Sean Combs; LA Weekly; Rap
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Barry Minkow 2.0
The LA Weekly found that Barry Minkow was duping investors for the second time, while the media looked the other way. Using thousands of pages of court documents, public companies' financial reports, and real estate records, the Weekly discovered a pattern of Minkow shortening stocks his Fraud Discovery Institute was about to issue critical reports on, sending the stocks plummeting.
Tags: Barry Minkow; fraud; extortion; libel; SEC
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Homicide in LA
This series is a story about a serial killer on the loose in South Los Angeles. The story broke after a lead from the one and only surviving victim, who agreed to meet only with LA Weekly. LA Weekly kept the story alive by helping detectives by writing stories and keeping the existence of the serial killer alive. Though, after the story had gone away, 20 years later it has reappeared as the serial killer struck again.
Tags: murders; LAPD; police; mystery; Grim Sleeper; Southern California; court; law enforcement; detectives
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Billboards Gone Wild
LA Weekly was the first newspaper in Los Angeles to seriously investigate a decade-long losing battle by Los Angeles City Hall to reign in illegal billboards.
Tags: billboards; city government; Los Angeles; Clear Channel; CBS Outdoors; LED billboards
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Donald T. Sterling's Skid Row Mirage
According to advertisements he distributed in the media, Los Angeles Clippers basketball owner Donald T. Sterling was building a new homeless center in downtown LA. But after L.A. Weekly did some investigating, they found he wasn't close to constructing anything. In fact, he was still looking for a homeless service provider to raise the $50 million needed to build the Donald T. Sterling Homeless Center.
Tags: homeless centers; celebrity; fundraising; construction; false advertising; wealthy; media scam; public relations
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The Town the Law Forgot
LA Weekly chronicled "the intersection of organized crime and public corruption in the Hispanic suburbs of Los Angeles County and in revitalized downtown Los Angeles. ... The overarching conclusion is that local law enforcement's piecemeal approach to gang and drug-related crime is not sophisticated enough to make a dent."
Tags: crime; drug; urban; elected officials; attorneys; political operatives; lobbyist; corruption; police department; city
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Skid Row Series
LA Weekly reporter Sam Slovick profiles the extra-vulnerable inhabitants of Los Angeles' Skid Row: children (called "skids") and the elderly.
Tags: skids; homeless children; Union Rescue Mission; Central City Community Outreach; Project Safe Sleep; Saaint VIncent's Cardinal Manning Center for the Homeless; United COalition East Prevention Project; Healing Hands Medical Group
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Broken Bridges: Did City Hall's plan to fight gangs bankroll a gangster?
Ex-gang member and alleged Mexico Mafia member Hector Marroquin, Sr. founded a gang-prevention program in Los Angeles in 1997 that was supported by nearly $1.5 million from the City COuncil. Using FOIA requests and over 50 interviews, L.A. Weekly reporters Jeffrey Anderson and Christine Pelisek point out that the program had no oversight, no means of measuring its success in keeping children out of gangs. They also uncovered nepotism, and evidence suggesting Marroquin was a member of the Mexican Mafia while he ran the anti-gang program.
Tags: L.A. Bridges; gang intervention programs; Hector Marroquin; Networks Organizing for Gang Unity and Neighborhood Safety; N.O. G.U.N.S; L.A. County Probation Department; Mexican Mafia; drug trade; FOIA; Community Development Department; DEA; Drug Enforcement Administration; L.A. Sherriff's Department; Diversified Strategies for Organizing; People Works, Inc.; Central Recovery Development Project; Toberman Settlement House;
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The death of Keisha
The author investigated the death of LaKeisha Brown in the custody of Alexander Youth Services Center. The girl's repeated requests for help over a period of days were brushed off by nurses at the juvenile lockup, and they were by the facility supervisors. The only medical attention she received the day of her death was some Advil and a puff of her inhaler. The medical examiner found that Keisha had died a slow death from blood clots in her lungs that had been there for a minimum of two days and up to two weeks.
Tags: juvenile facilities; Department of Justice; LaKeisha Brown; medical intervention; Youth Services; FOIA
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Ill- Suited for War
The LA Weekly looks at how prepared American soldiers are in the face of toxic chemicals being used in Iraq. As this reporter reveals, soldiers who served in the 1991 War have fallen ill, some permanently disabled. This report also finds out that with the present design of suits the soldiers are equipped with, they could physically perform for just 20 minutes especially with the prevailing high temperatures in Iraq.
Tags: biological warfare; Iraq War; gulf war; operation desert storm; 1991 war; Saddam Hussein; American soldiers in Iraq; suits to protect against chemical warfare