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Month: December 2022

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The Texas serial killer, parts 2 and 3 — a victim survives, the jury won’t convict

December 20, 2022 Bob Sullivan 0

“Mother had gone to lunch that week with her friends and she said…I may need to move. These people are dying around me.  I didn’t realize it was not a joke.” Dozens of older Americans were murdered — in the end, the victims might really number into the hundreds — [Keep reading]

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In Conversation: With SBF arrest, is crypto having a Lehman Brothers moment or a Bernie Madoff moment?

December 14, 2022 Bob Sullivan 0

No one knows when an investment bubble will burst, but in retrospect, there’s often a single event that comes to symbolize the beginning of the end — as the Lehman Brothers implosion is now forever intertwined with the collapse of the housing bubble and the Great Recession.  It’s understandable that [Keep reading]

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A serial killer on the loose at senior living facilities — deaths overlooked as ‘natural causes’

December 2, 2022 Bob Sullivan 0

Dianna Tannery: “I was more… horrified just knowing that… that she didn’t die peacefully in her sleep. That her last few minutes was struggling and trying to breathe. So I think about that every night.” Loren Adair: “My brother and I both started having nightmares. I would have visions of [Keep reading]

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BOB SULLIVAN is a veteran journalist and the author of four books, including the 2008 New York Times Best-Seller, Gotcha Capitalism, and the 2010 New York Times Best Seller, Stop Getting Ripped Off! His latest, The Plateau Effect, was published in 2013, and as a paperback, called Getting Unstuck in 2014. He has won the Society of Professional Journalists prestigious Public Service award, a Peabody award, and The Consumer Federation of America Betty Furness award, and been given Consumer Action’s Consumer Excellence Award.

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