Industry Funds EPA's Recent Safety Study for Pesticides in Drinking Water: Peer Review vs. Lobbyists

Agency Says Company’s Evidence ‘Scientifically More Robust’ than Independent Research By Danielle Ivory Huffington Post Investigative Fund Companies with a financial interest in a weed-killer sometimes found in drinking water paid for thousands of studies federal regulators are [...]

"Too Big to Jail?" | Banks Escape Fraud & Borrowers Face Charges | Video

Executives unscathed as regulators let banks report criminal fraud By David Heath Huffington Post Investigative Fund The financial crisis has spawned hundreds of criminal prosecutions for alleged fraud. Yet so far, defendants have been mostly minor players such [...]

Electronic Health Systems Carry Libel Risk

By Fred Schulte and Emma Schwartz Huffington Post Investigative Fund One day in March 2009, hospital workers misread small print on a computer screen, causing them to dispense 10 times the prescribed dose of a drug. Result: The [...]

Housing: Subprime Loans Under The Obama Plan

VIDEO: The Fate of a Subprime Loan: Can This Man Hold On to His Mortgage? By Christine MacDonald Special to Huffington Post Investigative Fund 10:25 am | 22 Dec 2009 Second of two articles about the  roots of [...]

Zombie Banks: The Commercial Real Estate Crisis

Are ‘Zombie Buildings’ the Next Economic Calamity? Bad Loans for Commercial Real Estate Threaten Regional and Community Banks By Christine Spolar and Lagan Sebert from Huffington Post Investigative Fund & Disseminated by The Erie Wire While the overall [...]

The Credit Rating Agency Story

How Credit Raters Fended Off Oversight From Congress and SEC By Ben Protess and Lagan Sebert of the Huffington Post Investigative Fund & Disseminated by The Erie Wire 2:49 pm | 11 Nov 2009 Editor’s Note: This is [...]