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Code Enforcement Looks Into Peppertree Living Conditions" class="vi2" /> New information on a local I- team investigation into the problem plagued Peppertree Apartments in Whitehaven. Transcript: Code Enforcement Looks Into Peppertree Living Conditions new information on a local i- team investigation ... into the problem plagued ... peppertree apartments in whitehaven. city code enforcement inspectors ... went door to door at the complex this afternoon ... assessing living conditions . the inspection sweep ... is part of a number of big changes the city made ... after our local -i team exposed ethics concerns surrounding the code enforcement manager in charge of the property. the city shut down that manager's ministry ... which was operating out of peppertree ... and removed him from overseeing today's inspection to avoid any conflicts of interest. here's investigative reporter maria hallas ... who broke the story ... reports from the inspection...

One day in August, 2016, the financier Carl Icahn made an urgent phone call to the Environmental Protection Agency . Icahn is one of the richest men on Wall Street, and he has thrived, in no small measure, because of a capacity to intimidate. A Texas- based oil refiner in which he had a major stake was losing money because of an obscure environmental rule that Icahn regarded as unduly onerous. Icahn is a voluble critic of any government regulation that constrains his companies. So he wanted to speak with the person in charge of enforcing the policy: a senior official at the E.P.A. named Janet McCabe . Icahn works from a suite of offices, atop the General Motors Building , in midtown, that are decorated in the oak-and-leather fashion of a tycoon’s lair in a nineteen-eighties film. During that decade, Icahn made his reputation as one of the original corporate raiders , pioneering the art of the hostile takeover and establishing himself as a human juggernaut—a pugnacious deal machine ...