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There are lead paint lawsuit settlements, many are structured settlements, agreements delivered monthly payments across decades to protect vulnerable recipients from immediately spending the money. unfortunately, that has spawned a highly aggressive largely unregulated secondary market in which companies come in to buy the rights to those years and years of payments for a lump sum -- a lump sum far less than the value of those payments, no matter how you slice it. here's a classic example from the present day value of that is $338,000. still a huge amount of money.

Suddenly, investigators thought they'd solved the mystery. it looked to be a phenomenon called pica. the word comes from the latin name for magpie, a bird that eats almost anything. >> pica is a condition particularly of children but not always of children. it's sort of a craving for food items to eat. lead paint often tastes sweet. so here's a little malnourished girl who's never had enough food. and it became pretty clear she was probably picking up chips of paint and then sucking on them or chewing on them. >> samples of paint from the porch showed levels of lead 37 times the legal limit. t...

Managers who lease buildings constructed prior to 1977, they are required to provide general lead paint warning notices. >> to prove that they had been informed, tenants must sign these disclosure documents. the landlord provided photocopies of these documents and signed an affidavit saying they were legitimate. investigators weren't so sure. >> the tenants advised us that they had not signed those documents. we're actually looking at them to see if they were forged. >> document experts compared signatures from the documents to known signatures of the tenants. the signatures were exact matches...

>> welcome back. it's time now for the massey memo. we showed you former gangster left where i rosenthal's house. if you are booing an historic home or even just an old home, well, you need to look out for certain thing. in some cases you can get tax credit if you are restoring the property, and, of course, historic homes, well, by their very nature, they're old, and therefore, they need repairs. do this for me. look for a qualified contractor and get multiple bids. make sure they work on aged or historic homes. get a detailed home inspection with a licensed and bonded inspector. these histori...

That flag. >> demand some ways, that is the great battle to be won in some ways, the concentration of wealth and power, even through this era of tremendous progress which i think is giving some of the fire to bernie sanders. i want to take a second. just take a look -- there's the white house, you know in rainbow colors. folks celebrating outside of the stonewall. tonight i'm going to leave here i'm going to go to the retirement party of my father. he was a jesuit and then he was a community organizer, and he spent years as a community organizer and worked the last 20 years in the new york cit...