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This is somewhat unrelated to the story, but I am happy and proud of the Post-Gazette for digging into this. The PG is my hometown newspaper -- although I haven
by exogeny 5y ago
This is somewhat unrelated to the story, but I am happy and proud of the Post-Gazette for digging into this. The PG is my hometown newspaper -- although I haven't lived in Pittsburgh for fifteen years, it's still home -- and they like most newspapers have been absolutely gutted by layoffs and piss-poor management. You might recall a controversy a few years ago about their firing of the political cartoonist because he refused to be pro-Trump as the owners wished.
Local news is critical for reasons I hope I don't need to explain here, as are investigative departments that dig in deep and uncover things like this. The PG (IIRC) got a Pulitzer for their work on the Penn State/Jerry Sandusky scandal some years back and it makes me proud to see them still doings like this, the Block family be damned.
- jtsuken 5y agoThis specific article is terribly written, however. I've spend over 5min trying to get the gist of the story. Which seems to be: A business owner with a background in oil and metals asked the bank he owned to fund levereged-buy-outs of rundown US steel factories, some of which had accidents, some of which later shut down. DOJ and the prosecutors in Ukraine investigate if the schemes used in the process of take-over could be fraudulent.
- selimthegrim 5y agoThis story has been covered many times, the unique bit is interviewing the steelworkers.
- jtsuken 5y agoWhich is exactly my point, the article and the clickbaity headline sound like a detailed report about a newly uncovered scheme, but there is actually very little information about what happened.