Steward’s evasion of creditors in its spectacular bankruptcy even includes the wrongful death settlement for a young mom.
Maureen Tkacik
Maureen Tkacik is investigations editor at the Prospect and a senior fellow at the American Economic Liberties Project.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
From the Folks Who Brought You the Death Panel Algorithm
Three executives from an AI ploy to deny health care to seniors are buying a troubled mega-practice from the bankrupt Steward Health. What could go wrong?
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Let Them Eat Invoices
Steward grifter Ralph de la Torre, supposedly under criminal investigation on two continents, is now telecommuting from Versailles.
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
The Domination Tour
Four decades of intensifying corporate concentration turned the music industry into a wasteland of institutionalized control and abuse. Are antitrust enforcers ready to reckon with that?
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
CrowdSuck
How did software designed to protect customers from paralyzing system disruptions instead cause what may be the most destructive software glitch in recorded history? A 2018 antitrust case holds some clues.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
The Assassin Amid the Undesirables
On the abiding despair of the failed Trump assassin’s post-COVID, private equity–looted nursing home
Posted inHousing
How an ‘Algorithm’ Turned Apartment Pools Green
RealPage, the rent-fixing software company currently under FBI investigation, also has apps for bogus fees, monetizing vacant apartments and inflating toxic property bubbles.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Why Is NIH Perpetuating Long COVID Denial?
Documents obtained by The Sick Times reveal the bastion of the medical establishment squandered a billion dollars on a long COVID study that seems suspiciously designed to fail.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Music Mafia’s Invincible ‘Poison Dwarf,’ in the Crosshairs at Last?
The DOJ says Live Nation has been colluding with its former chairman Irving Azoff to fix artist fees and ‘pimp’ Ticketmaster.
Posted inHousing
Hell Is an Underwater Landlord
Millions of tenants are trapped in a rotten cycle of overflowing trash, daily water outages, and a healthy rat population.
