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Legislators, Regulators Call for Additional Scrutiny of Mortgage-Lending Industry After Markup Investigation Finds Disparities
Minnesota attorney general warns lenders: Don’t be surprised if you’re investigated
Challenging technology to serve the public good.
Malena Carollo investigates broken systems and wrongdoing.
Her most recent investigation found that a sweeping change to an algorithm deciding who gets a life-saving liver transplant hurt patients in several poorer, more rural states in the South and Midwest. Other states, however, benefited significantly—including several whose transplant leaders orchestrated the change behind the scenes. The investigation was copublished with The Washington Post.
Her previous work prompted an investigation by the Florida Attorney General’s office into an auto lender’s predatory practices, highlighted a state-sanctioned loan program saddling homeowners with significant debt, and showed that Florida’s largest power company was among the deadliest for customers. Her work was the basis for an episode of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.
Malena mentors other journalists through the Investigative Reporters & Editors program with Journalism Mentors.
She earned her master’s degree at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where she studied investigative and data reporting and practical digital security. When she isn’t working, she enjoys hiking. She is based in Florida.
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Minnesota attorney general warns lenders: Don’t be surprised if you’re investigated
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau advised screening agencies to stop error-prone practice
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The move comes after a Markup and New York Times series revealed screening agencies relying on faulty information to deny people homes
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The multi-agency effort will target redlining—including digital redlining through black-box algorithms
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Vaccine cards don’t actually contain very much sensitive information, but you can protect it nonetheless
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Mortgage companies affiliated with the nation’s three largest home builders were at least twice as likely to deny applicants of color as similar White borrowers
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