Aaron Glantz's new book Homewreckers: How a Gang of Wall Street Kingpins, Hedge Fund Magnates, Crooked Banks, and Vulture Capitalists Suckered Millions Out of Their Homes and Demolished the American Dream has been reviewed by the NY Times.❝ Aaron Glantz knows that he’s living the dream — the good guy who does well in the morality play of American real estate.
A journalist and a third-generation San Franciscan, Glantz has been able to live affordably in the outrageously expensive city of his birth by dint of a savvy investment in a foreclosed home 10 years ago, after the housing market went bust. You don’t even have to feel too sorry for the tenants he evicted from the house, which included the previous owner who was foreclosed on; they turned out to be grifters, having spent years flipping that house and others between themselves, defaulting on the mortgages and then selling to one another to reap the windfall of inflated prices. Glantz and his wife, then pregnant with their first child, received an $8,000 check as part of the Obama administration’s stimulus package; they used the money to remodel their new home, effectively putting people to work while building their nest egg … [RevealNews.org]
 | AARON GLANTZ is a Pulitzer Finalist, Peabody & duPont Award-winning journalist, & author of several books, including Homewreckers. Watch him discuss the "Fake News Fight Back" below, and learn more about booking Aaron for your next event today. |
