INVESTIGATION FILE

The Foster Files

Dossier: Henry Foster III

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The Airbnb Play

How a $100,000 skate-park gift became 2.6 percent of a multi-million-dollar corporate campaign to kill a San Diego vacation-rental tax

Airbnb paid $100,000 to build a skate plaza in Encanto. It was three percent of the money Airbnb spent shaping San Diego politics during a vacation-rental tax fight that would have raised up to $133 million a year. The payment was legal. The disclosure was proper. The math is the scandal.
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The Question Nobody Had to Ask
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The Company He Kept
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