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Our Money, Their Failures
A six-week investigation by The Virgin Islands Daily News into the people and the money connected to the U.S. Virgin Islands governor's proposal for a $55 million sports complex. The investigative report was published on one day across 11 pages and achieved the result of stopping the project and forcing the governor to pledge no further contracts without vetting the principals. In the case of the sports complex that the governor and some V.I. senators were trying to push through, the investigation uncovered misrepresentations and a string of financial failures by a number of the private parties in the deal with the governor.
Tags: Government; governor; Virgin Islands
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Jim Greer: GOP Collateral Damage
An investigation of how the Florida Republican Party including the President of the Senate, The Speaker of the House, and many powerful leaders lied and worked to undermine the Chairman of the Party, Jim Greer, in order to keep Gov. Charlie Crist from getting the U.S. Senate nomination and how it spent millions of dollars in contributions and lied about when it was caught.
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The Blow the Whistle Project
A U.S. senator killed a crucial piece of legislation by using a maneuver known as a "secret hold." This tactic allows lawmakers to act anonymously and evade accountability.
Tags: secret hold; Congress; whistleblower
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Side Effects
The author examines the conflicts of interest within the medical community and the influence of pharmaceutical companies on doctors and researchers. The series shows the dangerous consequences that come when drug companies pay doctors and researchers to endorse their products. An inquiry by a U.S. Senate committee, as well as policy reform at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health were results of this investigation.
Tags: pharmaceutical companies; drug companies; medicine; conflict of interest; doctors
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Making Mistakes: Absentee Ballot Investigation
The story reveals problems with the counting of absentee ballots for the 2008 US Senate election recount. Apparently, absentee ballots were being accepted and counted, even though they didn’t follow the strict rules of the state. The final margin of victory was “312 votes”. Not a large number and leads to suspicion, which has made way for changes in the way future votes will be counted.
Tags: Al Franken; Norm Coleman; Senator; state government; general elections; senate seat; election judge
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Blago Hit Up Burris for Cash
This series reveals how US Sen. Roland Burris changed his sworn testimony regarding his contacts with Rod Blagojevich. The series also revealed the US senator lied and then he lied about lying. All of this on top of one of the biggest political stories of the year with Blagojevich and Burris.
Tags: politicians; politics; corruption; perjury; payment; cash; donations
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Dianne Feinstein Series
U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein was the chair of the Military Construction Appropriations subcommittee from 2001 to 2005, and during that time she micromanaged $1.5 billion in construction projects around the world that were contracted to her husbands companies.
Tags: MILCON; Daddy Warbucks; CBRE Richard Ellis; Michael Klein; Perini; URS; conflict of interest; senator; appropriations
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Politicizing the Justice Department
McClatchy's Washington Bureau found that "White House political operatives had intervened in the firing of nine U.S. Attorneys." In their places, were appointed attorney's who agreed with the administrations.
Tags: Justice Department; Senate; U.S. Attorney; Congress; Alberto Gonzales; Karl Rove; Paul McNulty; David Iglesias; Bush administration
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University of Louisville let Steve Henry go after work complaints
"The story outlined the reasons Dr. Steve Henry, a former Kentucky lieutenant governor and a candidate for governor and U.S. Senate, was no longer practicing medicine at the University of Louisville's hospital. Henry had essentially been fired after surgical residents working under him complained he repeatedly missed surgical procedures he was supposed to supervise and on several occasions was not available while on call."
Tags: Steve Henry; surgery; candidate lies; uncredited practioner; falsifying information
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How A Long Island Nursing Home Got It's Way
"Ten Filipino nurses at a nursing home in Smithtown, Long Island were charged with endangering patients for resigning en masse to protest working conditions." Further investigation showed that U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer helped the home, which had "contributed more than $75,000 to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee."
Tags: FOIA; senate; nursing home; medical care; Philippines; nurses; campaign contributions; Democrats; SentosaCare; politics