Joe Eaton

Reporter  The Center for Public Integrity
jeaton@publicintegrity.org
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Before he joined the Center’s staff in 2008, Joe Eaton was a staff writer at Washington City Paper and a reporter at The Roanoke Times. He has written for Salon.com, USA Today, and The (Baltimore) Sun. Eaton graduated from the University of Michigan with a bachelor’s degree in English and earned a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Maryland.

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Forget stimulus checks; wealthy farmers raked in more than $49 million in federal funds between 2003 and 2006 that they may have been inelig

The Obama $800 billion stimulus package could stimulate headaches for environmentalists and smart growth advocates who fear that the urgency

The big winner in the $825 billion stimulus proposal revealed Thursday by House Democrats is roads. State road projects get a proposed at $

All fingers point at the housing mess as a primary trigger for the current recession, but so far the homebuilding industry has been left in

The Federal Trade Commission is cracking down on predators who prey on distressed homeowners facing foreclosure. The Commission has filed ci

In 2004, years before plummeting real estate values turned Fort Myers, Florida, into a top five foreclosure capital, appraiser Mike Tipton f

In 2007, New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo set out to investigate whether Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac purchased home mortgages bas

Nine days before new rules radically changing the appraisal industry are set to take effect, appraisers, lenders and real estate agents are

It’s been more than six weeks since new rules went into effect to clean up systemic abuses in the home appraisal business, but don’t ask an

In 2007, a mortgage lender flagged the work of veteran Florida home appraiser Jerome Woolf for review, a process that often leads to an appr

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