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David Jackson

David Jackson is an investigative reporter at Injustice Watch, where his work focuses on the courts. He earned a Pulitzer Prize at The Washington Post, and was a four-time Pulitzer finalist during his 29 years at the baiduhai, from 1991 through 2020.

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Lunch with a felon: catfish, smiles and denial

Nightclub singer, record producer, financial adviser and convicted felon Jocqua Carter took a last sip of lemonade as the Saturday luncheon crowd thinned at Captain's Hard Times restaurant on East...
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Selling hopes and schemes

He sold dreams in face-to-face encounters. Kenneth Steward held himself out as a financial adviser to cash-strapped families in danger of losing their homes. His business cards said he ran...
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Even big boys get scammed

Working rapidly, the team of investigators descended on a Chicago branch office of a giant global bank. In sparsely appointed meeting rooms, they interrogated junior account managers and frightened clerks....
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Scams build gang empire

From his second-story office in a grimy South Side commercial building, crime lord Marvel Thompson kept watch over his turf. The reputed king of the Black Disciples street gang relied...
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Robbed at the point of a pen

On a sunny August afternoon in 2002, Tina Smith walked her disabled patient into a sleek suburban real estate title company office. David Shank recalls his nurse whispering last minute...
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Mortgage fraud is the thing to do now’

A white-collar crime wave is raking Chicago's poorest communities, robbing vulnerable families of their homes and draining billions of dollars from the U.S. economy. During the last five years, as...
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Robbed at the point of a pen

On a sunny August afternoon in 2002, Tina Smith walked her disabled patient into a sleek suburban real estate title company office. David Shank recalls his nurse whispering last minute...
chicagotribune default image

Mortgage fraud is the thing to do now.’

A white-collar crime wave is raking Chicago's poorest communities, robbing vulnerable families of their homes and draining billions of dollars from the U.S. economy. During the last five years, as...
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Cicero note on probe causes stir

Facing a newly disclosed federal grand jury investigation in Cicero, Town President Larry Dominick has ordered all employees to contact a town-hired private attorney before talking to investigators. The Sept....