Anti-RealPage ordinances gaining popularity
As PESP has written about, RealPage remains the subject of an ongoing Department of Justice lawsuit, along with over 30 class action lawsuits. RealPage has been accused of…
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New housing policy analysis highlights strategies to combat the growing threat of corporate landlords
Wall Street watchdog PESP outlines state and local policy options for mitigating the impact of private equity and other institutional investors The Private Equity Stakeholder Project released the fourth installment of its Tools for Tackling Corporate Landlords…
Stephen Feinberg’s Cerberus owned military contractor that paid millions to settle government fraud suits
Feinberg could lead DOD after Cerberus-owned Dyncorp paid over $9 million to resolve DOJ lawsuits This week, it was reported that President-elect Donald Trump selected Stephen Feinberg to be his deputy Defense secretary. Feinberg is the Co-Founder, Co-Chief…
Billions of dollars of taxpayer money flowing to private equity firms contracted for detention, surveillance of immigrants
A new report released by the Private Equity Stakeholder Project (PESP) examines how a handful of private equity firms are playing an outsized role in the deportation and surveillance of millions of immigrants in the United States.
Revenue over Refuge: Private Equity in Immigrant Detention
To download a PDF version of this report, click here. Key Points Hundreds of millions of dollars are flowing from city and federal governments to private equity firms for goods and services used to…
2024 PESP Housing Policy Primer
The fourth installment of our Tools for Tackling Corporate Landlords policy analysis series is the 2024 PESP Housing Policy Primer, which consolidates emerging policy solutions to address the increasing corporate domination of housing…
Private Equity in Healthcare – PESP’s November 2024 Roundup
Each month, PESP’s Healthcare Team will be putting together a roundup that shares the latest news stories related to private equity in healthcare and highlights the work that our team has published in the last month. In the news…
Drug test billing fraud at private equity-owned labs
At least five private equity-owned laboratory companies have reached multimillion-dollar settlement payments since 2015 to resolve claims that they allegedly billed federal healthcare programs, including Medicare and Medicaid, for conducting excessive and medically unnecessary drug tests. These settlements combined total…
AFT Health Care : How Private Equity Has Looted Our Hospitals
PESP Healthcare Director Mary Bugbee authored an article in the Fall 2024 edition of the AFT Health Care magazine. In her article, Mary discusses how private equity has looted hospitals in the United States. She details how private equity…
More Perfect Union : “Private Equity’s Ruthless Takeover Of The Last Affordable Housing In America”
More Perfect Union explored the incursion of private equity and corporate landlords into manufactured housing in a recent video. More Perfect Union, September 18, 2024: “Private Equity’s Ruthless Takeover Of The Last Affordable Housing In…
Carrot producer linked to nationwide E. coli outbreak owned by Indiana private equity firm
As a pre-Thanksgiving outbreak of E. coli linked to carrots has left one person dead and dozens more sickened, private equity-owned Grimmway Farms has come under scrutiny. Owned by Zionsville, Indiana-based private equity firm Teays River Investments, Grimmway Farms is…
