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Lisa Cavazuti

Lisa Cavazuti is an investigative reporter for the NBC News Investigative Unit.

Lisa Cavazuti is an investigative reporter for the NBC News Investigative Unit.

Latest from Lisa Cavazuti

131d ago

A former Native American boarding school reckons with its dark past

A former Native American boarding school reckons with its dark past
182d ago

Paradise lost: Inside Peru's emergency zone

Illegal gold mining in southeastern Peru has fueled the destruction of a massive swath of rainforest and the killing of dozens of environmental activists.
182d ago

Paradise lost: Inside Peru's emergency zone

Illegal gold mining in southeastern Peru has fueled the destruction of a massive swath of rainforest and the killing of dozens of environmental activists.
364d ago

'Biggest fraud in a generation': The looting of the Covid relief plan known as PPP

The official in charge of Covid relief tells NBC News' Lester Holt that programs like PPP were structured in ways that were "an invitation" to fraudsters.
364d ago

Doctor fired from ER warns about effect of for-profit firms on U.S. health care

Two-fifths of U.S. emergency departments are run by for-profit firms owned by private equity. Some doctors say a tight focus on profits can hurt health care.
398d ago

'Zone Rouge': An army of children toils in African mines

How mica mined by kids in Madagascar ends up in products used by millions of Americans.

Payday lenders can send borrowers into tailspin. How one woman broke free.

One day, Jennifer Williams borrowed $200 from a payday lender. Years later, she was still struggling to escape what she called "quicksand." Then she got help.

How a federal push to stop Chinese scientists from stealing U.S. secrets has sputtered in court

The U.S. government encouraged U.S. and Chinese scientists to work together. Now rules violations have become criminal charges — but they aren't sticking.

'Seized by some invisible hand': What it feels like to have Havana Syndrome

A doctor said "it's like you aged 20 years all at once," said Kate Husband, diagnosed with a brain injury "related to a directional phenomenon exposure.”

The hidden scourge of 'wage theft': When higher profits come out of workers' pockets

Wage theft affects vulnerable workers, those desperate for pay and willing to take temporary jobs, the undocumented and those paid by subcontractors in cash.

Watchdog report blasts FBI for 'fundamental errors' in Larry Nassar sex abuse investigation

The report places much of the blame on a now-retired FBI agent who sought a job with the U.S. Olympic Committee.