Pete Kotz
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7 years ago | Longform
Imagine, in a moment of suspended disbelief, that your job pays 174 grand a year. And comes with a $1.3 million expense account. And a staff of 18 Ivy League yes-men whose sole duty is to bray loud and wide about the miracle that is you — wh...
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7 years ago
Featuring threesome seekers, cokehead judges, hockey dads from hell and, quite naturally, Wells Fargo...
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8 years ago
Photo courtesy of Mercy for AnimalsOne of the nearly 3,000 pigs at Country View Family Farms in Fannettsburg, Pennsylvania. The farm is a supplier for Hatfield Quality Meats, which is sold in twelve Northeastern states.This week's story, "The Ag G...
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8 years ago | Longform
Cody Carlson had no way of preparing for this moment. He was a Manhattan kid, days removed from working as an analyst for a business-intelligence firm, where he scrutinized corporations and their executives. Now he was standing in a bleak barn at ...
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8 years ago
Police in riot gear guard the dugouts, preparing for the worst with German shepherds at heel. This is Philadelphia in 1980, after all. It's the bottom of the ninth. Two strikes. Two out. Bases loaded. Human rocket Willie Wilson of the Kansas City ...
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9 years ago | Longform
You wouldn't know it by watching the news or reading the paper, but America's banks are on the largest crime spree the country has ever known. Let's go to the highlight reel, shall we? In July, Wells Fargo paid a $175 million settlement after the ...