Los Angeles Issue
LA’s scandal response: status quo
By Matthew Blake | January 21, 2021 03:00PM
The FBI brought down the hammer last year on Jose Huizar’s alleged criminal enterprise, stating that the former Los Angeles City Council member milked developers for more than $1 million in payments and gifts,...
LA’s scandal response: status quo
Los Angeles
LA’s biggest real estate stories of 2020
By Hiten Samtani | December 31, 2020 03:00PM
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. It was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.” Charles Dickens sure nailed...
LA’s biggest real estate stories of 2020
Los Angeles
The secrets still to come in the FBI’s Jose Huizar investigation
By Matthew Blake | December 24, 2020 06:00PM
It was the fall of 2017 and Los Angeles City Council Member Jose Huizar needed a word with a...
The secrets still to come in the FBI’s Jose Huizar investigation
Los Angeles Archive
“Casino Loyale”: Developers, ex-LA deputy mayor indicted in Huizar corruption scandal
By Matthew Blake | December 01, 2020 04:45PM
Real estate developers and a former Los Angeles deputy mayor have been charged in the two-year-long corruption case centered around ex-L.A. City Council member...
“Casino Loyale”: Developers, ex-LA deputy mayor indicted in Huizar corruption scandal
Los Angeles
Inside LA’s opaque program to house homeless in hotels
By Matthew Blake | October 30, 2020 12:30PM
UPDATED, Jan. 5, 2021: Less than a year ago, black SUVs and international tourists crowded the L.A. Grand Hotel...
Inside LA’s opaque program to house homeless in hotels
Los Angeles Archive
To live and bribe in LA: The sweet past and sticky present of Carmel Partners
By Matthew Blake | Research By Jerome Dineen | September 23, 2020 04:30PM
Is Carmel Partners a cartoonishly nefarious developer or merely an opportunistic one caught in the wrong place at the...
To live and bribe in LA: The sweet past and sticky present of Carmel Partners
National Issue
Inside LA’s biggest real estate corruption scandal in recent history
TRD Staff | July 09, 2020 07:30AM
The clock was ticking for a developer’s big downtown Los Angeles debut. Carmel Partners was looking to get its...
Inside LA’s biggest real estate corruption scandal in recent history
