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The Real Estate Meltdown
"Did Appraisers Juice the Market?" showed how appraisers overstated home values. Using disciplinary records and interviews, Shanklin and McClure found appraisers who exaggerated condo sizes, appraised homes without seeing them and stated that condos were worth the $240,000 sales price even though the price was padded with $40,000 of incentives. The "Subprime Mess" package was based on more than 2 million records and showed how unconventional loans moved from low-income, inner city neighborhoods to the burgeoning suburbs. "How Investors Helped Overheat the Market" explored the role of investors in Central Florida's real estate meltdown by analyzing hundreds of data records and found that sales of non owner-occupied homes grew from 25 percent of all local residential sales in 2002 to 70 percent in 2006.
Tags: real estate; investors; lenders; purchase prices; subprime loans; adjustable-rate loans; high-interest loans; housing scam; vacant housing; condo conversion; development; property values
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Juiced in the Valley
"Juiced in the Valley is a series of reports exposing the illegal prescribing of anabolic steroids by a group of doctors at Revolution Medical Centers in Phoenix, Arizona."
Tags: steroid use; prescription fraud; clinics; overdose; suicide; performance-enhancing drugs
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Dodd Uses Wall Street 'Juice' to Outraise His Rivals
"Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd, D-Conn., used his position to raise millions of dollars from the banking industry for his presidential campaign."
Tags: campaign finance; pesidential; Wall Street; democrat
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Juice vs Justice
According to the Los Angeles Times, Las Vegas Justices rule on matters in cases where they have received donations from lawyers or defendants, without disclosing their financial interests or relationships, and without withdrawing when a conflict of interest exists. The Los Angeles Times reports "A common perception among a dozen out-of-state lawyers interviewed about their experiences in Nevada courtrooms is that justice in Las Vegas is just another form of legalized gambling." The Times reported this series because more than a quarter of all visits to Las VEgas are made by Southern Californians, and over a third of alll business relocating to Nevada come from California.
Tags: Blackstone; judicial corruption; good-old-boy culture; Las Vegas; Nevada Supreme Court; political fundraising; financial contributions; juice; disclosure; campaign funds; endorsements; pay-to-play
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"Trucking food and wastewater"
This investigation uncovered a trucking company that hauled orange juice and other citrus products in tankers used earlier to haul slightly radio-active wastewater from a state environmental cleanup project. The investigation noted a federal law passed in 1990 to prevent truckers from carrying food and nonfood products in the same tanks, which prompted both an FDA investigation and Congressional efforts to better enforce the Sanitary Food Transportation Act.
Tags: trucking; tankers; wastewater; food safety; shipping; transportation; sanitation
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Family Feud
The Florida Trend looks at the controversies that have teared apart the "once a billion-dollar family empire that encompassed Sunkist juice, Peoples Gas, Lykes hot dogs and meats, First Florida Banks and half-a-million acres of cattle ranches" in Florida. The story reports how 81 Lykes family shareholders have "dragged the once-formiddable, and always private Lykes Bros. company into court over their fair share of a shrunken empire." The author finds that regardless of the lawsuit's outcome, the future of the company is at risk.
Tags: stocks and bonds; courts; litigation; shareholders; privacy; trade; real estate assets; Credit Suisse First Boston; valuation
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Show of Hands: In Drive to Unionize, Casino Dealers Defy A Las Vegas Tradition. Their Old Bosses Took Care Of Them; Then, Sin City Became a Corporate Town. Less 'Juice' and Fewer 'Tokes'
Dealers in Vegas are making moves to unionize as their once-key position at casinos erodes under new corporate management. But in a town where housekeepers and waitresses are union members, casino executives are dead-set against a dealers' organization. They say they need the flexibility to rearrange dealers during gamblers' streaks. Dealers find that tips ('tokes') are taxed more, wages have not kept up with the cost of living, pensions are paltry, based on $5.15 hourly wages, young and attractive new dealers are given prime slots and better tables than senior dealers, fewer big stake games occur as Vegas turns into a mecca for tourists on buses, and changes in ownership have cost dealers their seniority.
Tags: casinos; AFL-CIO; Teamsters; union; labor; Mob; Organized Crime; perks; tips; the Strip; consolidation
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How safe is our food?
A year and a half ago, Sarah Witmar was among the children who almost died from drinking contaminated apple juice. San Jose Mercury News West reports on the E. coli outbreak and how it's changing attitudes toward what we eat and drink.
Tags: Contamination FDA Food and Drug Administration Public Health Department
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WCCO-TV conducted the most comprehensive study ever done on milk and juice in Minnesota schools, to ensure they contained the promised amount. The station tested more than one thousand containers and found companies shorting schools on their contracts--in one case by 12 percent. (Feb. 26, 27, March 14, 1995)
Tags: Kramer Burger Young CAR Coming up short Contest entry Fraud Education 43 pages TAPE
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Washington (D.C.) Times goes undercover to expose how easily the district's drug testing of those on probation can be fooled; the reporter, posing as a person on probation, submitted apple juice and other people's urine, based on which the clinic deemed him drug free, Aug. 23, 28 - 29 and Dec. 13, 1989.
Tags: Boyle