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Why Millions Won’t Get Help From Big Mortgage Settlement
by Cora Currier The Obama administration is billing today's $25 billion agreement between most states and five banks that engaged in flawed or deceptive practices as a big win for struggling...
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Senators Slam Freddie on Bets Against Homeowners
by Jesse Eisinger Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., had sharp words for Freddie Mac's investment practices and conflicts of interest at a Senate Banking Committee hearing Thursday. The senator's concerns...
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Kumbaya to Confrontation: Colorado Redistricting Started With Best Intentions...
by Lois Beckett A version of this story was published in The Denver Post. Colorado was supposed to be an exception to the bitter fights over gerrymandering that define redistricting in much of the...
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Will Mortgage Settlement Avoid Repeating Obama’s Foreclosure Failures?
by Paul Kiel Yesterday, administration officials stood alongside state attorneys general to announce a $25 billion mortgage settlement. It was reminiscent of a big announcement by administration...
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Top MuckReads: Mosque Surveillance and Bain’s Political Preferences
by Blair Hickman Here are this week's top must-read stories from #MuckReads, ProPublica's ongoing collection of the best watchdog journalism. Anyone can contribute by tweeting a link to a story and...
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How (and How Not) to Jumpstart an Economy
by Michael Grabell This story is not subject to our Creative Commons license. This story is co-published by The New York Times Sunday Review. The author, ProPublica reporter Michael Grabell, has...
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Updated Recovery Tracker
by Jennifer LaFleur , Dan Nguyen and Joe Kokenge Once again, we’ve taken all the data used on the government’s stimulus Web site, Recovery.gov, spiffed it up and added thousands of other recovery...
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New Arrests in Murdoch Bribery Scandal Raise Question of U.S. Charges
by Lois Beckett This weekend, five more journalists from a Rupert Murdoch-owned British tabloid were arrested as part of an ongoing bribery investigation. The arrested journalists, all from The Sun,...
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CPAC Tips: How to Win Friends and Influence
by Kim Barker The big Republican names were all at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C., last week: Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul, Herman Cain,...
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Obama Housing Plans vs. Reality
by Cora Currier The Obama administration recently unveiled a string of proposals to help struggling homeowners and get the housing market back on its feet — part of the administration’s “We Can’t...
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California Congresswoman’s Redistricting Shenanigans Catch Eye of Ethics...
by Olga Pierce California Congresswoman Laura Richardson is under investigation by the House Ethics Committee for directing her staff to use government resources for redistricting work, according to a...
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Murdoch’s Circle: The Growing News International Scandal
by Lena Groeger From phone hacking to bribery, the corruption at News International has involved many players—increasingly, ones close to Rupert Murdoch. We’ve mapped out the players involved in this...
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Federal Rules to Disclose Fracking Chemicals Could Come with Exceptions
by Lena Groeger Last week several media outlets obtained the federal Bureau of Land Management's draft of proposed rules requiring fracking companies to disclose the chemicals they pump into the...
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How Citibank Dumped Lousy Mortgages on the Government
by Cora Currier .DC-note-container {margin-bottom: 12px;} Citigroup agreed yesterday to pay $158 million to settle a lawsuit over bad loans that the bank passed on to the Federal Housing...
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The Best, Most Revealing Reporting on the Foreclosure Crisis
by Blair Hickman The housing crisis in the U.S. has been going on nearly five years, with still regular revelations about misdeeds by banks and others. Here’s our roundup of standout reporting on the...
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Graphic: Who are the Super PACs’ Biggest Donors?
by Al Shaw An interactive chart showing the share of all contributions given by the top ten donors to each of the 12 largest super PACs.
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SEC Warns Top Banker of Charges Over Magnetar Deal
by Cora Currier According to The Wall Street Journal, the Securities and Exchange Commission has warned a top banker that it may bring civil charges against him for his role in creating a risky...
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Pioneering a Way to Distinguish Blood Disorders From Child Abuse
by Gretchen Gavett, Special to ProPublica Last year, as part of our ongoing investigation into the troubled state of death investigation in America, PBS "Frontline," ProPublica and NPR took a closer...
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Two Wall Street Players Ensnared in New Probe
by Jake Bernstein More than three years after the financial crisis, Wall Street watchdogs are still uncovering questionable actions rooted in that time. The latest revelation involves one of the more...
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Follow the Money: Payment Trail Reveals Challenges of Ridding Liberia of...
by Johnny Dwyer, Special to ProPublica This story was co-published with Foreign Policy. Last July, five months before she accepted the Nobel Peace Prize, Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf...
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