um these are a couple of the indulgences i'm now reading from the article that chicago landowner suzy b wilson and her sister allegedly paid for a maserati a luxury condo with millions of dollars illegally raked in for more than 1 000 neglected and distressed properties they owned throughout the south and west sides how does it get to this point well mina bloom i guess i'll start there how long have you been working on this investigation

It's been three years, John, so it's been kind of a while.

Yeah, Susie B. Wilson has been dubbed the city's worst landowner.

I can tell you a little bit more about her.

So she and her sister, Svedlana Doss, they bought hundreds of properties, mostly on the south and west sides of the city, mostly vacant lots.

beginning in the 1990s through Cook County tax and scavenger sales.

And my reporting partner, Casey, and I, we actually first learned about Susie and her sister back in 2023 when we were reporting on rats in Chicago.

So what have you learned through the now public records, I assume, of the bankruptcy filing?

In addition to the stay at home orders that, you know, in a lot of cases locked people in their house or in their neighborhood with their abusers.

Exactly, exactly.

And I was going to get to that.

So there were the lockdowns as well, where people were basically trapped at home with their abusive partners.

And so you've got the economic stressors that I was referring to earlier.

You've got the lockdowns.

And so domestic violence, very high at the height of the pandemic.

I guess my question is like, what hole does Chicago public school try to plug first in this equation?