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Search results for "bid-rigging" ...
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Watchdog website and its web pages
The Oklahoman/NewsOK.com started this project in 2008 with the Right to Know page, a collection of databases developed internally to go along with stories and links to relevant public information. That site became part of the Watchdog page in 2009. In 2010, the staff continued to evolve the Watchdog page with "mini-sites" of investigative topics, such as a political corruption case at the Oklahoma Legislature; the staff's FOI fight over the birth dates of public employees; and allegations of bid-rigging with a married lawmaker and lobbyist for a private company seeking a state juvenile justice contract. Other "mini-sites" under Watchdog include ongoing coverage of the state Department of Human Services and the federal stimulus package.
Tags: continuous coverage; online; watchdog; bid-rigging; Department of Human Services; federal stimulus; FOI; Right to Know
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NewsChannel 5 Investigates: High-Dollar Highways
This year-long, in-depth investigation reveals secrets of Tennessee's multimillion-dollar highway construction industry, including possible bid-rigging. The findings uncovered hundreds of millions of dollars being doled out in state and local highway contracts without competition, threats and intimidation being used to discourage companies from crossing into 'territory' controlled by highway contractors, and blatant manipulation of zoning laws.
Tags: highway; tax money; threats; road; highway construction industry; bidding; department of transportation; fraud; bribery; state contracts; FOIA
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Scottsdale School Board: Meetings, Money and Misspending
The Scottddale School District misspent tens of millions of dollars. School administrators are accused of bid-rigging, accepting kickbacks from vendors and violating state open meetings law. Administrators may have also tried to cover-up the abuses for almost a year and a half and interfered with the Attorney General's investigation.
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Police Bid - Rigging
This report on the felony conviction of a former police officer for organized fraud is the culmination of a 1997 investigation into bid-rigging at a Central Florida police department. Reporters found a police chief allowed his most-trusted employee to resign quietly, rather than face an internal investigation, even though there was evidence of ethical lapses. He was steering tens of thousands of dollars in computer puchases to a company run out of his home, ostensibly by his wife.
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The Times-Picayune investigates campaign contributions to local officials and their apparent connection to no-bid public contracts being awarded to contributing businesses. (Oct. 13, 1996)
Tags: Cooper CAR That's what friends are for Contest entry Politics bid-rigging Local government 36 pgs.
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Arizona Republic reveals Arizona Gov. Fife Symington's chief of staff improperly telephoned a bidder with close ties to the governor. Soon after the call, the investigation found the firm cut its bid by more than 400 thousand dollars and won a 1.5 million dollar contract. Cellular phone records used. Criminal investigations and a reform of the state procurement process ensued after publication, 1994.
Tags: AZ Sidener Bid Rigging in Arizona State Government; 12 pgs.
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Morning Call (Allentown, Penn.) discloses problems at a local public television station, including shake-ups of the board of directors and bid-rigging at charity auctions, September 1993 - January 1994.
Tags: PA WLVT-TV 43 pages
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Greensboro (N.C.) News and Record conducted a computer-assisted investigation which showed North Carolina dairies were rigging bids on school milk contracts and defrauding the schools out of $8 million; the dairies split the state up into exclusive areas of operation and did not compete with each other for bids; no evidence was uncovered to indicate that school officials knew of the bid rigging, March 1, 1992.
Tags: NC CAJ
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Village Voice (New York) reveals how the Bureau of Land Management of the Department of the Interior wastes tax dollars and environmentally sensitive land through poor management that benefits only ranchers, miners and lumber companies; shows bid-rigging to help favored entrepreneurs, including a major contributor to the GOP; selling public lands for amounts vastly less than their market value; assembling an internal employee spy network to inform on internal whistleblowers, Oct. 6, 1992.
Tags: Sullivan Wild Horses
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer looks at U.S. Forest Service timber sales on the Olympic Peninsula; details how log-stealing and bid-rigging are common; reports that loggers, truck drivers and bidders cheat the federal government routinely, November - December 1987 and June 13 - 20, 1988.