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Private equity giant Blackstone continues to face bad press due to a Department of Labor investigation that revealed widespread child labor at Packers Sanitation Services (PSSI), which the firm acquired in 2018. While Blackstone and PSSI frame child labor as…
There is a disturbing pattern in Blackstone-owned rental properties in Florida. In at least 33 cases over the last year at properties owned by Blackstone’s single family rental subsidiary Home Partners of America, Blackstone filed to evict the tenant and…
In light of the growing investor interest in healthcare and the risks associated with private equity ownership of healthcare companies, the Private Equity Stakeholder Project is tracking private equity-backed healthcare acquisitions. Below is a list of private equity healthcare…
Private equity investors in healthcare finally face the music as their highly leveraged companies face downgrades and defaults on a large-scale Private equity’s use of debt to fund its healthcare investments is becoming a major liability for its portfolio companies…
Next week, private equity and real estate giant The Blackstone Group will hold its Global Real Estate LP Conference and Global Private Equity LP Conference at the luxurious The Boca Raton resort in Boca Raton, Florida. The resort…
PESP contributed to a CBS 60 Minutes segment on Blackstone’s child labor at its meatpacking plants. CBS 60 Minutes, May 7, 2023: From stakeouts to warrants: How federal investigators found more than 100 children cleaning slaughterhouses…
Fox13 in Utah looked at how some Salt Lake City apartments owned by investment firms and managed by large corporations impose multiple, often unaffordable fees on top of rent in order to generate more income. Fees are a feature of…
PESP’s and United for Respect’s May Day action and Labor Rights platform were featured in an investigative piece by Truthout…
Click here to sign on to PESP’s platform for Labor Rights. Download a copy of our Labor Rights platform here. The private equity industry must correct its course and improve its treatment of workers. Focused on…
A committee in Frederick, Maryland has recommended changes to the city’s rules for licensing rental properties. The committee’s suggestions fall in line with recommendations outlined in Private Equity Stakeholder Project’s recent report, “Tools…
Corrupt guards at the Mangaung Correctional Centre, operated by a subsidiary of multinational security company G4S, allowed a convicted murderer and rapist to run fraudulent schemes by computer for years while he was locked up, and helped him…
Columbus, Ohio’s NBC4 featured a story about PESP’s recent report that looked at Progress Residential, a landlord with more than 1,100 properties in central Ohio. NBC4, April 17, 2023: Report calls for changes by ‘predatory’ central Ohio…
