ST. LOUIS — The FBI in 2018 opened an investigation into NorthSide Regeneration and its real estate deals involving a now-lapsed Missouri tax credit program that funneled more than $40 million in credits to the developer and companies associated with it, documents obtained by the Post-Dispatch confirm.
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