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Denticaid: Medicaid Dental Abuse in Texas
A nearly two-year-long probe of Medicaid dentistry by WFAA’s Byron Harris discovered what authorities now say is a system of corporate fraud, propelled by Wall Street. News 8 found taxpayer money has gone to finance lavish lifestyles of dentists who have billed the government for unnecessary orthodontics and other procedures that, in many instances, harmed children. WFAA also uncovered a network of Medicaid recruiters who, for at least one clinic, lured children into a van with cash and food, had them sign their parents' names on treatment forms, then performed extensive and unnecessary work on their teeth without their parents’ permission. The FBI is currently investigating this and other Medicaid fraud schemes brought to light by WFAA's reporting.
Tags: Medicaid; dental health; fraud; corruption
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Brian Ross Investigates: Conduct Unbecoming
"In a year-long series of stories for World News and Nightline, ABC News' chief investigative correspondent and his team reported on a pattern of unbecoming and unethical behavior in offficial Washington that culminated in the revelation's of Congreeman Mark Foley's sexually-explicit internet messages with high school students who served as Congressional pages." Stories in the series also examine some of the consequences from the lack of an ethics code for the Supreme Court and a probe of unethical behavior of a retired U.S. General.
Tags: broadcast; financial disclosure forms; lobbyist Jack Abramoff; Congressman Tom Delay; Congressman Mark Foley; instant messaging; Congressional Pages; House Ethics Committee; Kyle "Dusty" Foggo; CIA; Air Force; Department of Defense Inspector General's Office; Federal Election Commission; Political Money Line; Federalist Sociey; legal ethics; Supreme Court; Congress; Pentagon; influence peddling; FBI; IRS; Brent Wilkes; Taxpayers for Common Sense; Keith Ashdown; Porter Goss; Thunderbirds; General T. Michael Mosely; Senator Tom Coburn; General Hal Hornburg; Project on Government Oversight; Danielle Brian; U.S. Trademark Office; General John Jumper; Blue Angels; midterm elections; access; Campaign Legal Center; Gerry Hebert; pay to play; House Caucus on Missing and Exploited Children; sexually explicit messages; sexual exploitation; graphic language; solicitation; Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert; Internet sex; FBI investigation; Congressman Tom Reynolds
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The New McCarthyism
The Progressive probes the threat to free speech after Sept. 11. "The FBI and Secret Service are harassing artists and activists. Publishers are firing anti-war columnists and cartoonists. University presidents are scolding dissident faculty members. And right-wing citizen's groups are demanding conformity."
Tags: democracy; human rights; freedom of speech; First Amendment; treason accusations; anti-war movement
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The Disconnected Cop
In a three-month investigation after the 9-11 attacks, Baseline examined the New York Police Department's information and communications capabilities, which were found to be outdated and, for many cops, inaccessible. Additionally, federal agencies were probed and the FBI, CIA and NSA systems were found to be in not much better shape.
Tags: communications; NYPD; 9-11; security; law enforcement; FBI; CIA; NSA; terrorism; information systems
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Superintendent for Sale
"Longtime state schools superintendent misused thousands of dollars in public and private funds. (The) superintendent made more than 1,700 personal phone calls on a state-issued credit cars. He accepted more than $99,000 from a nonprofit organizations whose contributors included some ofof the largest corporations in the states. ... He billed the state for such items as chartered plane flights and accepted free trips and hotel rooms from numerous corporations."
Tags: state government; travel; conflict of interest; nonprofit; education; grand jury investigation; misuse of funds; expense account; telephone calling card and private office phone recors; expense reimbursement forms; closed door meetings; FBI probe; reverse directory look-up; FOIA
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Living Life on Speed Dial
The Cleveland Plain Dealer tells the story of Michael Stevens, a flashy, smoothing-talking entrepreneur with connections to the mob. Stevens is the focus of a number of "multistate federal probes into guns, organized crime and a potential multimillion-dollar scam of long-distance telephone companies."
Tags: Cleveland; Ohio; Michael Stevens; guns; organized crime; fraud; business; long-distance telephone companies; FBI
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The Fall of Insurance Commissioner Chuck Quackenbush
The series "disclosed misconduct on the part of Chuck Quackenbush, California's second elected insurance commissioner." The reporter found out that he "made secret deals with major insurance companies that allowed them to escape fines for mishandling hundreds, perhaps thousands, of claims relating to the devastating 1994 Northridge earthquake." The stories reported that "Quackenbush had ignored recommendations form his legal staff that some of the big insurers in the state be fined hundreds of millions of dollars for mishandling Northridge claims. Instead, Quackenbush and his senior staff bullied insurers into "donating" more than $ 12 million to nonprofit foundations he created." The reporter found confidential documents to prove that the state regulator "used public funds and the power of his office to create a political slush fund, directed by highly paid consultants, to further his quest for higher public office." Quackenbush used some of the money to "repay his wife for personal loans she made to her failed state Senate campaign." After the misconduct had been revealed, the commissioner faced state's and federal probe of corruption and finally resigned. The reporter found out that in his "final days as insurance commissioner, Chuck Quackenbush approved contracts obligating California taxpayers to pay more than $ 1 million in legal fees to lawyers representing his commissioner and his top staff in investigations of wrongdoing."
Tags: politics; campaign; contributions; donations; political finance reports; Department of Insurance; foundations; nonprofit; television advertising; corruption; earthquake; California; impeachment; taxpayers; FBI
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FBI Probes Espionage at Clinton White House
This article examines the FBI counterintelligence tracking "a daring operation to spy on high-level U.S. officials by hacking into supposedly secure telephone networks." The article explains that the spying took place because of lax telephone-security procedures at the White House.
Tags: government; espionage; FBI; counterintelligence; White House
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Russian Mob Series/ FBI Tracked Alleged Russian Mob Ties of Giuliani Campaign Supporter; San Francisco Bank Linked to Laundering Probe at Bank of New York
These reports are the first two in an investigative series about "how billions of dollars are entering the U.S. from the former Soviet Union. Emigres from Russia and other former Soviet states are being tracked by US and international law enforcement, but cases against alleged ties to Russian organized crime are rare."
Tags: Money laundering FBI Federal Bureau of Investigations KGB embezzlement
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State of the Union
"Dateline NBC's four-part report took a comprehensive look at the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees union - a labor union representing some of the lowest-paid employees in the country, whose leaders have for decades been the subject of organized crime and corruption probes.... Dateline followed a group of daring union reformers, led by a bartender and a waiter, as they waged a campaign to wrest control of their local chapter in Chicago.... Dateline's report also focused on the latest federal probe into (union boss Edward) Hanley and the union and a little-known report that detailed a litany of financial abuses by Hanley, his family and union associates...."