This is a follow-up story after the House Financial Services Committee convened a hearing based in large part on our reverse mortgage investigation.
Seniors were sold a risk-free retirement with reverse mortgages. Now they face foreclosure.
This is a 15-monthlong investigation I did with USA Today’s national investigative team and three Grand Valley students.
Mack Herron's Death and Reverse Mortgage Anxiety
The late Mack Herron and his sister Barbara at their family home in January 2015. The prospect of being homeless due to problems with a reverse mortgage his mother had purchased troubled Herron, who died in December at age 67.
Chicago native Mack “Mini-Mack” Herron used money he made playing professional football to help buy a house for his mother on the city’s West Side in the 1970s.The prospect of losing the home to an alleged reverse mortgage scam may have contributed to his death at age 67 last month, according to relatives.
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Perhaps the most disturbing image from the Laquan McDonald dashcam video released Tuesday is the wisps of smoke. They waft off the 17-year-old’s body while he is crumpled in a heap after being shot multiples times, allegedly by indicted Chicago Police Officer Jason Van Dyke.
Read moreRIP, Gail D'Angelo aka AnniAbbi
Gail D'Angelo with her son Vinnie, my best friend in high school.
If you’re lucky, and I mean very lucky, you have a second mother like Gail D’Angelo.
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