Fannie and Freddie’s Foreclosure Barons
My latest investigative piece at MotherJones.com. A few days after this story came, the Florida Attorney General’s Economic Crime division opened an investigation to the David Stern law firm. Read more about that here. *** LATE ONE NIGHT IN February 2009, Ariane Ice sat poring over records on the website of Florida’s Palm Beach County. She’d been at it for weeks, forsaking sleep to sift through thousands of legal documents. She and her husband, Tom, an attorney,... Read More
The Illusion of Recovery in Subprime America
That’s the gist of my new piece published today at TomDispatch.com. While there’s plenty of projections and guesses on how long it’ll taking the housing industry to recover, far fewer are the firsthand, boots-on-the-ground reports on how struggling homeowners are faring right now with explosive interest rates, underwater mortgages, and uncooperative servicers or lenders. Today’s piece, I hope, will offer that perspective, a story in three acts set in the... Read More
