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Stories by Heather Vogell
Posted Feb 8, 2022, 7:25 am
Heather Vogell
/ProPublica
Amid a national housing crisis, giant private equity firms have been buying up apartment buildings en masse to squeeze them for profit, with the help of government-backed Freddie Mac. Meanwhile, tenants say they’re the ones paying the price. ... Read more»
Posted Jan 21, 2022, 2:35 pm
Heather Vogell
/ProPublica
A new legal filing by New York’s attorney general this week accused former President Donald Trump’s company of misleading lenders about the financial health of its landmark downtown Manhattan skyscraper, 40 Wall Street, while seeking to renew the building’s mortgage.... Read more»
Posted Oct 16, 2019, 10:45 am
Heather Vogell
/ProPublica
The president’s businesses made themselves appear more profitable to lenders and less profitable to tax officials. One expert calls the differing numbers “versions of fraud.” ... Read more»
Posted Jun 20, 2014, 11:12 am
Heather Vogell
/ProPublica
Carson Luke, a young boy with autism, shattered bones in his hand and foot after educators grabbed him and tried to shut him into a “scream room.” Kids across the country risked similar harm at least 267,000 times in just one school year. ... Read more»