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A free press is a prerequisite for democracy, and objective and incisive reporting can only help low income people, redlined and excluded communities. Inner City Press/Community on the Move, as its name connotes, is also engaged in journalism, in use of the Freedom of Information Act, and has an understanding of the time and other constraints reporters are under. This page is intended to help (or, where applicable, bring balance to) journalists’ reporting.
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Below on this page is a list of some articles. For a less
newsy approach, see "Community Reinvestment in a Globalizing
World: To Hold Banks Accountable, From The Bronx to Buenos Aires,
Beijing and Basle," by Matthew Lee, in Organizing Access to
Capital: Advocacy and the Democratization of Financial
Institutions, Prof. Greg Squires, ed.,
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2003. Some of the
articles listed below are available for free on the Internet, all
are available on Lexis-Nexis and in other news data bases, or, if
necessary, from
ICP.
See, in November 2021, Inner City Press' book "Belt and Roadkill,"
here And, in July 2022, Brutal Kangaroo: CIA
and Josh Schulte, here
ICP has previously published Predatory
Bender, a (double) book about
the inner city-relevant topics of subprime lending, and corporate
fraud. The Washington
Post
of
March 15, 2004, calls Predatory Bender: America in the
Aughts "the first novel about predatory lending;" the London
Times of April 15, 2004, "A Novel Approach," said it "has a
cast of colorful characters." The Pittsburgh
City Paper says the 100-page afterword makes the
"indispensable point that predatory lending is now being
aggressively exported to the rest of the globe." Click here
for that
review; click here for
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of banks not (for now) listed on the Current
Campaigns page; contact us
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mlee [at] innercitypress.org). ICP also advocates and reports
concerning the Federal
Reserve, environmental
justice, global inner
cities, and, since September 11, 2001, a more general Finance Watch,
and more recently reports on
the United Nations, where Inner City Press is accredited
media. The first page of
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Sept 18, 2023,
CoinTelegraph, "Lawyer who
laundered $400M from OneCoin scam denied new trial: Report,"
by Tom
Mitchelhill, "money launderer Mark Scott's motion denied.
How many
years?" https://cointelegraph.com/news/onecoin-lawyer-laundered-proceeds-scam-denied-new-trial
Sept 14, 2023, CoinTelegraph, Former Celsius exec
pleads guilty to criminal charges," by Turner Wright, ,
"CRYPTO
CRIMES: #Celsius' Mashinsky Co-Defendant Pleads Guilty Now
Cohen-Pavon To Be
Sentenced Dec 11," https://cointelegraph.com/news/former-celsius-exec-pleads-guilty-criminal-charges
Sept 12, 2023,
Express (Sweden), "Sebastian Greenwood is sentenced to 20
years," by
Leif Brannström, "'Sebastian Greenwood targeted inexperienced
people,'
federal prosecutor Nick Folly said in court, according to
Inner City Press
reporter Matthew Russell Lee, https://www.expressen.se/ekonomi/konsument/krypto-svenskens-fangelsechock/
Sept 8, 2023, International Business Times, "First FTX
Whistleblower Pleads Guilty To Federal Criminal Charges," by
Nica Osorio, "Ryan Salame pleaded guilty to the campaign finance
charges that DOJ dropped as to Sam Bankman-Fried, Inner City
Press shouted question on his way out of court," https://www.ibtimes.com/first-ftx-whistleblower-pleads-guilty-federal-criminal-charges-forfeit-15b-3711155
Sept 14, 2023, CoinTelegraph,
Former Celsius exec pleads guilty to criminal charges," by
Turner Wright, , "CRYPTO CRIMES: #Celsius' Mashinsky
Co-Defendant Pleads Guilty Now Cohen-Pavon To Be Sentenced Dec
11," https://cointelegraph.com/news/former-celsius-exec-pleads-guilty-criminal-charges
Sept 7, 2023, Business Insider, "exchange's collapse ahead of
Sam Bankman-Fried's trial," by Jacob Shamsian, " Salame agreed
to pay back $5 million to creditors trying to pull money from
the ruins of FTX, according to Inner City Press," https://www.businessinsider.com/ftx-ryan-salame-guilty-plea-sam-bankman-fried-trial-2023-9
Sept 6, 2023, CoinTelegraph, "Tornado Cash co-founder pleads not
guilty to all charges: Report," by Turner Wright, "According to
a Sept. 6 thread on X (formerly Twitter) from Inner City Press,
Storm pleaded not guilty before a judge in the U.S. District
Court for the Southern District of New York," https://cointelegraph.com/news/tornado-cash-cofounder-pleads-not-guilty
Aug 22, 2023, Coin Telegraph "FTX’s Sam
Bankman-Fried pleads not guilty to fraud charges: Report," by
Prashant Jha, "AUSA: We'd like to exclude time until the
trial, October 3. Mark Cohen for SBF: We'd like to raise two
topics regarding the MDC," https://cointelegraph.com/news/ftx-s-sam-bankman-fried-pleads-not-guilty-to-fraud-charges-report
Aug 22, 2023, CoinDesk, "Ex-OpenSea
Executive Nate Chastain Gets 3 Months in Prison for
Insider Trading," by Elizabeth Napolitano, "Inner City
Press first reported the sentencing Tuesday," https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2023/08/22/ex-opensea-executive-nate-chastain-gets-3-months-in-prison-for-insider-trading/
Aug 22, 2023, The Block, "Former OpenSea product manager
accused of insider trading sentenced to three months in
prison," by Sarah Wynn, "Nathaniel Chastain, a former head
of product at OpenSea, was sentenced to three months in
prison and fined $50,000 on Tuesday, according to Inner
City Press," https://www.theblock.co/post/246864/former-opensea-product-manager-accused-of-insider-trading-sentenced-to-three-months-in-prison
Aug 21, 2023, WhyNow (UK), "Dealer behind fatal dose given
to Michael K Williams handed 10-year sentence," by Harvey
Solomon-Brady Posted "Inner City Press asked Williams'
nephew Dominic Dupont what the thought. He: Nobody won
here today," https://whynow.co.uk/read/dealer-behind-michael-k-williams-fatal-dose-handed-10-year-sentence