Related Practices & Jurisdictions The prospect of climate change, and the corresponding elevated risks to various forms of property and investments, are increasingly beginning to be priced in to widening swathes of the economy. While the energy sector–particularly fossil fuel production–was first identified as an industry likely to be impacted […]
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The Harlem investor in the Benjamin campaign finance scheme
Photo: Seth Wenig/AP/Shutterstock Lieutenant Governor Brian A. Benjamin resigned this afternoon, just hours after he was arrested and charged in Manhattan federal court with bribery, fraud, and falsification of records in connection with his unsuccessful 2021 run for New York City comptroller. The indictment accuses Benjamin of conspiring “to direct […]
Real estate investor erases years of home equity for poor, Black, more
Many were older or Black homeowners in distress. Some were vulnerable to a Reconstruction-era property law abused so often that it has been rewritten in other states, but not North Carolina. And most were left embittered or poorer by their encounters with Buncombe County real estate investor Robert Perry Tucker […]