Notorious Airbnb Host Charged with Allegedly Running $8.5M Nationwide Scam
www.vice.com
Shray Goel is charged with running an Airbnb scam across 100 U.S. properties.

Notorious Airbnb Host Charged with Allegedly Running $8.5M Nationwide Scam | Shray Goel is charged with running an Airbnb scam across 100 U.S. properties.::Shray Goel is charged with running an Airbnb scam across 100 U.S. properties.

  • silverbax@lemmy.worldEnglish
    66·
    6 months ago

    Best part of the article:

    “Goel’s scheme was uncovered in an in-depth investigation by reporter Allie Conti in 2019, who detangled the plot after being double-booked at one of his properties in Chicago and receiving a suspicious last-minute cancellation. Conti was contacted by the FBI days after the article was published.”

    I wish there was more of this. Good investigative journalism has been one of the most powerful weapons in justice, and I fear it’s diminishing rapidly.

    • No_Ones_Slick_Like_Gaston@lemmy.worldEnglish
      22·
      6 months ago

      Investigative journalism died the day the local newspapers stopped selling their local markets and became megaphones of a few nationwide companies owned by the same politically well connected donors.

      And yes I fucking salivate everytime I read one of these articles.