William Bender
Quick Strike Reporter at Philadelphia Daily News
Quick Strike Reporter at The Philadelphia Inquirer
Reporter @PhillyInquirer/@PhillyDailyNews, investigations team. Public corruption, gov't accountability, fraudsters, grifters. Tennis. 🎾🎾🎾
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2 weeks ago |
inquirer.com | William Bender |Ryan Briggs
Philadelphia Sheriff Rochelle Bilal disclosed this week that she is conducting an internal investigation into how her staff failed to notify city fleet officials that an SUV assigned to her deputy had allegedly been stolen and wrecked. But new details about the four-car crash in West Philly last summer — first reported Monday by The Inquirer — shed light on the bizarre series of events, while raising more questions about how the case was mishandled.
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3 weeks ago |
inquirer.com | Ryan Briggs |William Bender
Early one Saturday last August, a black 2024 Ford Expedition with police-style emergency lights was barreling through West Philly so fast residents could hear it coming from a block away. The twin-turbocharged engine roared as the driver stomped on the gas, heading eastbound on Cedar Avenue. Seeing the flashing lights, some residents assumed that a cop in an unmarked car was rushing to a crime scene.
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1 month ago |
inquirer.com | William Bender |Ryan Briggs
The chorus of voices calling for the end of two of Philadelphia’s so-called row offices is growing, with the city’s financial watchdog, the Pennsylvania Intergovernmental Cooperation Authority (PICA), the latest to reiterate the need to do away with these vestiges of colonial-era municipal governance.
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1 month ago |
inquirer.com | Ryan Briggs |William Bender
Philadelphia’s Land Bank may soon be able to actually buy land once again. For years, the quasi-governmental agency has been unable to perform one of its core functions — acquiring tax delinquent lots from sheriff sale for redevelopment. First, sales were suspended due to COVID-19, then came an opaque dispute between the Land Bank, Sheriff Rochelle Bilal and a private company she contracted to hold online auctions.
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1 month ago |
inquirer.com | Ryan Briggs |William Bender
The Pennsylvania Intergovernmental Cooperation Authority, Philadelphia’s fiscal watchdog, voted unanimously Tuesday to recommend the abolition of the city’s embattled Sheriff’s Office and the Register of Wills. The resolution, introduced at PICA’s monthly board meeting, calls on City Council and Mayor Cherelle L.
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