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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.  

   For reporting about banks or the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA), click here for ICP's weekly CRA Report. Click here for a description of some of ICP’s current campaigns, and here for a recent CBS MarketWatch article on the Fair Finance Watch.  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.

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   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 sample chapters, here for fast ordering and delivery, and here for other ordering information.

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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 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 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 31, 2023, Decrypt, "Judge Mulls Delaying Bankman-Fried's Court Date Amidst Defense Pleas," by Mattis Meichler," "Will Sam Bankman-Fried’s trial be postponed?  This question has gained momentum following a virtual hearing held Wednesday, with reports from Inner City Press and Reuters showing that Judge Lewis Kaplan might be open to the idea," https://decrypt.co/154425/judge-mulls-delaying-bankman-fried-court-date-amidst-defense-pleas


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