Nicole Einbinder

An Insider investigation found that some of California’s highest-ranking education officials and leading public universities helped an elite private school in China seek preferential treatment for its students.

Pegasus California School served the children of the Chinese elite as a private boarding school in Qingdao, China. But with the help of California’s top education official, it became a part of a Southern California public school district.

Interviews with 16 former employees and thousands of pages of court records reveal an environment in which sexual harassment claims and racism were common.

Corizon Health, facing mounting debt, executed a controversial bankruptcy maneuver. Hundreds of prisoner’s medical malpractice claims were left in limbo.

David Jones, the chief bankruptcy judge for the Southern District of Texas, has requested to be reassigned from his cases — a week after Insider broke the news that he was in a romantic relationship with Elizabeth Freeman, a prominent Texas bankruptcy attorney.He is now under investigation, according to audio from a hearing today in US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas.“As you all know I have been the subject of a fair amount of media attention over the past week,” Jones told t…

David Jones has resigned his post as chief bankruptcy judge for the Southern District of Texas, according to news reports– a stunning turn of events for one of the country’s most powerful bankruptcy judges who has overseen a series of high-profile cases during his tenure.The resignation follows a week of controversy surrounding Jones: Less than two weeks ago Insider first reported that Jones was in a previously undisclosed romantic relationship with attorney Elizabeth Freeman, who had worked a…