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First NBC banker Ashton Ryan lays out his defense in fraud trial

First NBC banker Ashton Ryan lays out his defense in fraud trial

David Hammer

First NBC banker Ashton Ryan lays out his defense in fraud trial

First NBC’s spectacular $1 billion collapse in 2017 forced federal insurance to cover customers’ losses and cost the bank’s public stockholders millions.

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David Hammer

Behind the Key Decision That Left Many Poor Homeowners Without Enough Money to Rebuild after Katrina

National politics spawned a Hurricane Katrina rebuilding program based on pre-storm home values, leading to disparities between rich and poor.
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A Tale of Two Cities: Rebuilding from Katrina was not equal for all

A groundbreaking analysis of nearly 92,000 rebuilding grants statewide shows critics were right all along: Road Home shortchanged people in poor neighborhoods.
David Hammer

What is New Orleans doing to address its most troubled blighted spots

For years or even decades they have been embarrassing eyesores on the cityscape, and more recently have become magnets for crime and in some cases death traps.

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