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Home Buyer Beware
WWOR-TV reports "'Home Buyer Beware' is the blanket title for a series of investigations that uncovered a widespread pattern of deception by real estate operators, mortgage bankers, lawyers and appraisers, preying primarily on African-Americans and Latinos in urban neighborhoods."
Tags: TAPE NO TRANSCRIPT foreclosure; mortgage; HUD; Federal Housing Administration FHA Housing and Urban Development fraud inspections appraisals loan qualifications inflated valuations Mortgage Lending of America
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1999 IRE National Conference Show and Tell Tape #7
1999 IRE National Conference (Kansas City) Show and Tell Tape #7 is the seventh of a nine-part series. This tape includes: 1.) Tony Dastoli (WAGA-Atlanta) Telemarketers lying to school principals. 2.) Allison Gilbert (WWOR-UPN New York City) Pets in airplane cargo holds. 3.) Larry Yellen (WFLD-Chicago) Illegal gun sales. Guns cross county lines from suburb to city. 4.) Kathleen Johnston (WTHR-Indianapolis) "Guarding the Guardians" Millionaire heiress, Ruth Lilly, and the money being spent by her so-called caretakers. A case of fortune swindling. 5.) Dan McDonald (WBTF-?) Investigation shows how easy it is for minors to buy shotgun ammunition. Store clerks are supposed to check ID's, but only one place does it. 6.) Matthew McClure (CBC-Edmonton) ***only 5 minutes of a much longer piece*** Major restaurant chain fails to pay employees during so-called "training shifts," even though they are clearly doing all the jobs of a regular shift. 7.) Joel Grover (KCBS-Los Angeles) "Dirty Restaurants Revisited" Station uncovers inspectors bribing restaurant owners to get an A rating. The ratings system was inspired by last summer's dirty restaurant investigation.
Tags: TAPE; Kansas City; conference; no transcripts; IRE
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IRE Feed 4 "Investigate This"
A compilation of 17 stories, including: 1.) "Deadly Detectors" WFXT, Boston, tested smoke detectors against the clock. 2.) "Burning Secret" WSMV, Nashville, State troopers were temporarily blinded and burned with pepper spray to feel it's effects, but without knowing the deadly and unhealthy hazards of the spray. 3.) "Take the Money and Run" News 12 Long Island, Election candidates betting campaign money. 4.) "Steroids For Sale" KPRC, Houston, Steroids illegally prescribed and Houston Police as customers. 5.) "Behind the Badge" WTHR, Indianapolis, Convicted criminal Police Officers. 6.) "Daycare Criminal Checks" KTVK, Dallas 7.) "Candy man" KOMO, Seattle, Teacher uses minors for door-to-door candy sales, usually in violation of child labor laws. 8.) "Illegal School Vans" WEWS, Cleveland, Schools transporting children in unsafe and illegal vans instead of buses. 9.) "High Crimes, High School" WITI, Milwaukee 10.) "Life After Death Row" WRAL, Raleigh 11.) "Foul Air" WWOR, New York, Carbon monoxide poisoning in indoor ice rinks. 12.) "Hard Bounces" KTVK, Dallas, "Banks that practice check ordering, or cashing larger checks first, equaling more profits for banks and more fines for customers. 13.) "Investigating the IRS" KTVK, Dallas 14.) "Fake Degrees" WFXT, Boston, Fake universities giving fake degrees. 15.) "Who is Mr. Wright?" KOMO, Seattle, An illegit doctor with fake credentials. 16.) "Medical Secrets" News 12 Long Island, A woman with terminal breast cancer, a doctor who failed to diagnose it, and a hospital that protected the doctors and punished the whistle blowers 17.) "Military Secrets" WRAL, Raleigh, Military doctors without medical licenses.
Tags: TAPE; WFXT; WSMV; KPRC; WTHR; KTVK; KOMO; WEWS; WITI; WRAL; WWOR; News 12 Long Island
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Rudy's Ride
New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani has made a career of cracking down on bad drivers in the City. WWOR-TV decided to investigate the driving habits of his entourage.
Tags: TAPE
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Housing Corruption Scandal
The New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), the country's largest landlord, provides housing for New York City's poorest residents. WWOR-TV's investigation proved the Federal tax dollars that fund maintenance of these housing projects were used, at times, to line the pockets of a few Housing Inspectors. The residents suffer as a result.
Tags: TAPE
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No title (id: 8276)
WWOR-TV (Secaucus, N.J.) reports on the illegal video-gambling business in New York and New Jersey and how it is making millions of dollars per week for the mafia; finds that the machines are placed in blue-collar neighborhoods and are highly addictive, Aug. 5 - 7, 1991.
Tags: TAPE; NJ NY video gambling mafia
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No title (id: 8275)
WWOR-TV (Secaucus, N.J.) reports on the $60 million a year merchandise counterfeiting industry, and how it is robbing American industry of tens of billions of dollars; everything from computer software and perfume to soap and encyclopedias are counterfeited, Nov. 25 - 27, 1991.
Tags: TAPE
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No title (id: 7582)
WWOR-TV (Secaucus, N.J.) finds that the growing auto theft problem is caused by the increase in number of juvenile drug addicts who steal to support their habit; many of the cars stolen are shipped abroad; shows the ease by which a trained thief can steal a car, April 3, 1990.
Tags: TAPE; NJ Gilmartin Scurka Children
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No title (id: 7495)
WWOR-TV (Secaucus, N.J.) reveals how the foster care systems of New York City and New Jersey have been overwhelmed by the tripling of the foster care population in three years, caused largely by poverty, drugs, homelessness and abuse, Sept. 17, 1990.
Tags: TAPE; NJ Collum Scurka Gardner Perla child abuse adoption
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No title (id: 7454)
WWOR-TV (Secaucus, N.J.) examines the ticket-scalping underworld, which charges exorbitant prices for tickets to concerts, theater and sporting events; state laws are confusing and almost impossible to enforce, Nov. 12 - 14, 1990.
Tags: TAPE; NJ Kemp Bagala Brennan