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Jun 3

Big Food, Big Profits, Big Lies levernews.com/big-food-big-p…

"While blaming inflation for rising prices, the country’s biggest food and restaurant companies are raking in billions and showering shareholders with payouts."

"Tyson Foods more than doubled profit margins between 2021 and 2022 after hiking prices for beef, pork, and chicken by upwards of 30 percent. The company — which is currently being investigated by the federal government for child labor violations and paid $10.5 million to settle allegations of price fixing in Washington state — claims it raised prices because it needed to offset increased costs in labor, transportation, and grain for animal feed..." more

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julie k. brown

@jkbjournalist

Jul 25, 2023

BREAKING: (warning: explicit content) Woman files lawsuit against Leon Black, alleging she was trafficked to him by Epstein and Maxwell when she was 16. The woman, who has Autism and a form of Down Syndrome, says she was severely beaten and raped by the former CEO. (more)

The woman, now in her late 30s, says that Epstein and Maxwell trafficked her to other powerful older men in the early 2000s, and that they were assisted by others who recruited her at a cheerleading camp. The lawsuit comes as the Senate Finance Committee opens a probe into (more)

Black's financial dealings with Epstein -- and after Black paid a $62.5 million cash settlement to the USVI to help scuttle a lawsuit against him by the U.S. Territory's Attorney General.

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julie k. brown

@jkbjournalist

Jun 3, 2023

There is nothing in these records that dispel anything about Epstein's death. In fact, the BOP records don't even say how they found his body. They tried to "wake" him up when they found him unconscious. Who does that to a hanging man? apnews.com/article/jeffre…

adding: it's the wording of "waking" him up. You would use that word if they found him laying on the floor or in bed, not hanging. Since they also don't include any interviews with the guards who found him, or any inmates, who knows what happened in that cell.

These records raise more questions than they answer. Too many missing pieces to the story, too many pages that reveal nothing yet were needlessly duplicated many times over.

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julie k. brown

@jkbjournalist

May 31, 2023

NEW: My new project: A collaboration between Temple University's Logan Center for Investigative Reporting and The Philadelphia Inquirer -- "Unexcused: The Absentee Crisis in Philadelphia Schools." (More) inquirer.com/education/inq2…

“There’s really something about Philly that makes you think you can’t do anything outside of this,” said Bowens, who was living in the back room of a bakery when she was 16. “..this is where you’re just bound to stay. Especially if you’re in the streets.” (more)

“I had a client who was living on her own, a 16-year-old girl. Her family just wasn’t taking care of her," said Amber Fullwood a social worker with Congreso. "They were also homeless. So she wasn’t going to school, she was working and trying to live.” (more)

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julie k. brown

@jkbjournalist

Apr 30, 2023

This story misses a very important aspect to Epstein’s crimes: federal prosecutors (with the help of Epstein’s lawyers) covered up the scope of his crimes — Epstein was charged and served time for solicitation of a single girl — therefore enabling him to(1 wsj.com/articles/jeffr…

2. This allowed Epstein to tell all these wealthy and politically connected people that he simply made one mistake. — and that he paid for it. (More)

3. While there was coverage BACK in 2006 about many more victims, the reality is HE WAS NEVER charged with any other crimes and worse, he was able to reinvent himself as someone who had the money and power to solve huge social, economic and health problems. More

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julie k. brown

@jkbjournalist

Apr 1, 2022

@McClatchy

Today I’m joining my Miami Herald colleagues in a one-day work stoppage as we demand a fair contract from @McClatchy. We need to protect local journalism.
I support My colleagues’ requests for fair pay, maternity leave and reimbursement for the high costs of equipment & travel.

It’s well past time for corporate executives to support the rank & file journalists who sacrifice so much of their lives to put out a newspaper that they can be proud of. I for one spent years making ends meet by using check cashing stores. I drove a car with no windows. 2

Our photographers are subsidizing our company because they are not paid enough for equipment and gas. It’s time to fix this. It’s time for a fair contract.

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