Walmart, America’s largest retailer, has long been a facilitator of fraud on a mass scale, a ProPublica investigation has found.

More than $1 billion in fraud losses were routed through the company’s financial services between 2013 and 2022.
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A school district mailer described the schools as “overcrowded,” “aged” & said students “need modern, safe, and secure schools.”

That was illegal, said the county prosecutor.

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'The counter-argument of the plastics industry was inescapable, from wall-sized ads at the airport to billboards on trucks that cruised around the downtown convention center.
Their message: Curtailing plastic production would spell literal doom.'
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Visitors to the UN's conference on the plastic crisis were inundated by pro-plastic messaging like these posters.

But the industry's real influence was felt behind closed doors, where connected insiders were given access to vital negotiations.
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Those 'industry reps were not the sideshow; they were welcomed into the main event.'

I wanted to give readers a sense of what it feels like to attend a UN #PlasticsTreaty meeting. Photos by the talented James Park.

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'Reporters trying to inform the public and hold governments accountable were completely shut out.'

Plastic, Plastic Everywhere — Even at the UN’s “Plastic Free” Conference
by ProPublica's Lisa Song is @lisalsong.bsky.social
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New: Plastic, Plastic Everywhere — Even at the UN’s “Plastic Free” Conference

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brilliant piece by Lisa Song is @lisalsong.bsky.social on corporate influence at UN plastic treaty negotiations and the failure [so far] to take conflicts of interests seriously

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Toxic fumes from plastic burning in landfills makes workers sick, a Kenyan waste picker told ⁦Lisa Song is @lisalsong.bsky.social⁩ They wake up with swollen necks, joints that don’t work and mysterious tumors. He came to Ottawa to fight for protective gear and health care. propublica.org/article/plasti…

“With such high stakes, I asked the INC Secretariat — the staff at the UN Environment Programme who facilitated the negotiations process — why they hadn’t set rules on conflict of interest or transparency. They told me that wasn’t their job” 1/ propublica.org/article/plasti…

New: At a conference meant to address the plastic crisis, pro-plastic messaging was inescapable. Meanwhile, industry insiders — some positioned as government delegates — were given access to vital negotiations.
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“ProPublica has found the NYPD site for allowing the public to track officers’ misconduct is shockingly unreliable. Cases against officers frequently vanish from the site for days — sometimes weeks — at a time,” writes Sergio Hernández via ProPublica.

Great to see WBUR ProPublica project cited by the Supreme Court.

Heartbreaking & urgent doc about the effects of a broken immigration system that separates families and forces children to grow up too fast. Amazing work by Gerardo del Valle+ProPublica team.
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