The vulture capital capital: Inside private equity’s takeover of Hartford, Connecticut

When private equity firms bought up Connecticut’s hospitals, local paper, and mobile home parks, they extracted hundreds of millions in profit. Now the city is trying to fight back before there’s nothing left to strip.

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When private equity bought the struggling hospital where Marilyn Anthony works, she says things quickly took a turn for the worse. One of the first things to go were the daily changes of patients’ bed linens, important for........

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