Investigative Reports

Greenlining Series: Uncle Sam opens bank vault
This is the third part of a series produced by CalWatchdog and the Examiner regarding the Berkeley-based Greenlining Institute, a low-income housing advocacy group that critics say intimidates banks and helped cause the housing meltdown. By TORI RICHARDS Congress gave Fannie Mae and Freddi...
Greenlining Series: Born in civil rights era
This is the second part in a series of articles about the radical Greenlining Institute produced by CalWatchdog and the Examiner. APRIL 14, 2010 By TORI RICHARDS and MARK TAPSCOTT It’s often said that even the best of intentions can go awry and that may well be an apt description of t...
Greenlining Series: Radical group’s legal heists
  APRIL 12, 2010 By TORI RICHARDS This series was produced by CalWatchdog and the Examiner. We will run additional parts during the coming week. It’s been called a bunch of shakedown artists, a growing menace, and a cousin of ACORN, the disgraced, disbanding national activist group ...
Fraud plagues state stimulus funds
APRIL 8, 2010 By TROY ANDERSON The board of directors’ retreat at a luxury casino: $8,300. The price tag for their bottled water: $2,300. And let’s not forget their facial tissue: $460. These are just a few of the $542,478 in disallowed expenditures made by the Economic Opportunity ...
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