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"Tracking a Terrorist"
After the Sept. 11, 2009, FBI raids in New York, the 9Wants to Know team caught wind that a Denver man was connected with the national terror plot. They were the first team to interview the suspected terrorist. They tracked down the chemicals he planned to use and how he planned to carry out his attack.
Tags: Najibullah Zazi; terrorist; Denver; FBI raids
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Race Gap Found in Pothole Patching
The Milwaukee Department of Public Works was found to have clear geographical and racial disparities in how it allocated city workers to fix potholes throughout the area. A database of pothole locations with repair times were mapped out by the reporters and U.S. Census data was used to assess the poor response times.
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Lender Loophole
"In the midst of the mortgage loan crisis in our country, the WFSB-TV I-Team uncovered that the 20-thousand plus mortgage loan officers in our state are not very closely regulated." Kyle Gwynn, a mortgage loan officer, is a registered felon in Florida for stealing several thousand dollars, yet he was working for 18 months in Connecticut without begin registered.
Tags: home mortgaging; felon; mortgage loan crisis; loan officers; unregistered loan officers
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Sealed Records
KLAS investigated Arash Hashemi, who was accused of torturing and almost killing his girlfriend's young daughter, and found that all his criminal cases were sealed.
Tags: court; records; sealed records; child abuse; deportation;
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Good Time Credit
Nevada legislature passed AB510 to reduce prison overcrowding by "granting 'good time credits' to nonviolent, non-sexual offenders." However, what the public wasn't told was that it would apply to all felons on parole.
Tags: sex offenders; parole; felons; violent felons; prison; overcrowding; convicts; AB510
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Bus Drivers
"The Channel 8 I-team investigated the criminal histories of all of Clark County School Bus Drivers. Major findings include: 13% of drivers had come in contact with the courts, either arrested, cited or charged with a crime, 5% of those resulted in convictions, including 6 convictions for driving under the influence."
Tags: bus drivers; criminal convictions; database searches; criminal records; DUI; public safety; children safety
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Timeshares: No Matter How You Slice Them, Buyers Pay a Price
With major corporations now involved, timeshare buyers face "high-pressure sales tactics, expensive financing, convoluted reservation systems, volatile and steep annual fees and questionable management and a dismal resale market in which owners virtually must give away their units in order to get rid of them." Even as major lawsuits have been field in recent years on behalf of timeshare buyers, "most states do little to regulate the industry and ensure that timeshare units are accurately represented and that the reservation systems are fairly administered."
Tags: timeshares; housing market; timeshare financing; property loans; timeshare resale
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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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Series on Kyle "Dusty" Foggo
A former CIA Director hand-picked Kyle "Dusty" Foggo, a mid-level bureaucrat, to be the CIA's number three man, the Executive Director. Foggo misused his influence to favor his friends, including a leading conspirator in a federal bribery case.
Tags: bribe; Central Intelligence Agency; Porter Gross; Brent Wilkes; defense contractor; Randy Cunningham
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Stolen House
Public records revealed that nine months after the death of Morris Rozet, his home had not been probated, but that he had in fact sold his house to Calvin Wynn for $100,000. Interviews with Wynn found that he hadn't paid for the home, or recieved keys to it. He broke in through the back door and began to renovate the property, working with borrowed money for the house he didn't own.
Tags: Morris Rozet; Calvin Wynn; property; realty; renovation