{"product_id":"the-killing-fields-of-east-new-york-the-first-subprime-mortgage-scandal-a-white-collar-crime-spree-and-the-collapse-of-an-american-neighborhood-9781638934011","title":"The Killing Fields of East New York: The First Subprime Mortgage Scandal, a White-Collar Crime Spree, and the Collapse of an American Neighborhood","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn this groundbreaking work of investigative journalism and true crime, Stacy Horn sheds light on how the subprime mortgage scandal of the 1970s and a long history of white-collar crime slowly devastated East New York, a Brooklyn neighborhood that would come to be known as the Killing Fields. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOn a warm summer evening in 1991, seventeen-year-old Julia Parker was murdered in the Brooklyn neighborhood of East New York. An area known for an exorbitant level of violence and crime, East New York had come to be known as the Killing Fields. In the six months after Julia Parker's death, 62 more people were murdered in the same area. In the early 1990s, murder rates in the neighborhood climbed to the highest in NYPD history. East New York was dying. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut how did this once thriving, diverse, family neighborhood fall into such ruin? The answer can be found two decades earlier. In response to redlining and discriminatory housing practices, the Johnson administration passed the Housing and Urban Development Act in 1968. The Federal Housing Authority aimed to use this piece of legislation to help low-income families of color finally achieve homeownership. But they could never have predicted how banks, lenders, realtors, and corrupt FHA officials themselves would use the newly passed law to make victims of the very people they were supposed to help, and the devastation they would leave in their wake. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA compulsively readable hybrid of true crime and investigative journalism, \u003ci\u003eThe Killing Fields of East New York\u003c\/i\u003e reveals how white-collar crime reduced a prospering neighborhood to abandoned buildings and empty lots. Following the dual threads of the hunt for the network of criminals behind the first subprime mortgage scandal and the ensuing downfall of East New York, Stacy Horn weaves a compelling narrative of government failure, a desperate community, and ultimately the largest series of mortgage fraud prosecutions in American history. \u003ci\u003eThe Killing Fields of East New York\u003c\/i\u003e deftly demonstrates how different types of crime are profoundly entangled, and how the crimes committed in nice suits and corner offices are just as destructive as those committed on the street.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Stacy Horn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Gillian Flynn Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/03\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.50w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781638934011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eStacy Horn\u003c\/b\u003e is a journalist and author of nonfiction books, including \u003ci\u003eDamnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad \u0026amp; Criminal in 19th Century New York\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Restless Sleep: Inside New York City's Cold Case Squad\u003c\/i\u003e. Her last book, described on\u003ci\u003e The Bowery Boys\u003c\/i\u003e podcast as \"your page-turning horror read for the summer,\" turned out to be excellent preparation for the horror read she was to write next. Mary Roach has hailed her for \"combining awe-fueled curiosity with topflight reporting skills,\" while others have described her work as \"immaculately researched\" and \"several notches above the typical reporter's insights.\" Horn's commentaries have been heard on NPR's \u003ci\u003eAll Things Considered\u003c\/i\u003e, and she lives in New York City.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Stacy Horn \/ Paperback \/ English","offer_id":47792949723293,"sku":"9781638934011","price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_158c51a1-4bb3-4393-b502-2db62072e4d3.jpg?v=1774985366","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/the-killing-fields-of-east-new-york-the-first-subprime-mortgage-scandal-a-white-collar-crime-spree-and-the-collapse-of-an-american-neighborhood-9781638934011","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}