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Broken Shield: Police force fails to protect state’s most vulnerable residents
Decades ago, California created a special police force to investigate crimes and unexplained injuries inflicted upon some of society’s most vulnerable citizens – men and women with severe autism and cerebral palsy living in taxpayer-funded institutions. This police force, the Office of Protective Services, works exclusively at state developmental centers that have been the scene of horrific abuses. We sought to bring this story to readers in many forms, from working on all platforms, distributing condensed versions and delivering broadcast video stories to our partners, to creating a graphic novel video on one particularly human story -- a woman who was raped, apparently by a janitor. We also created an ebook of the series of stories and an interactive tracker that detailed key milestones of legislation drafted and signed into law. Producing this work on every platform helped to maximize audience reach and heighten the impact.
Tags: Autism; cerebral palsy; taxes; taxpayers; Office of Protective Services; abuse
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Bath Salts
Using hidden camera, Dateline infiltrated a national network of Bath Salts distribution demonstrating the deceptive marketing practices intentionally used to skirt the law.
Tags: bath salts; hidden cameras; drugs
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Brian Ross Investigates: Jesus Rifle
The U.S. military bars the proselytizing of any religion by troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. However, an ABC News investigation found that the U.S. military had been distributing thousands of weapons to U.S. troops that were inscribed with coded references to Bible passages about Jesus Christ.
Tags: Jesus; guns; military; Afghanistan; Iraq; Trijicon; army
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Charity Paid Leaders $2.5M
Angel Food Ministries Inc. is a charity that distributes discount groceries to people in need. However, the founding Georgian family received $2.5 million in pay to operate the organization. Questions surrounding whether the charity is completely legitimate surfaced when further investigation revealed insider loan activity in the charity as well.
Tags: Angel Food Ministries; groceries; charity; 2.5 million; pay; family; insider loans; leaders; organization; operation; Georgia;
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The Tuition Tax Credit
"Arizona began a groundbreaking tax credit program that steered public revenue to private hands to distribute private-school scholarships." This program was to help the poor obtain the same educational opportunities and lower the cost of education. But this isn't the case, which this series reveals in multiple articles, because the poor still attend public schools.
Tags: Tax Credit; Public revenues; Private-school; Scholarships; Poor; Public schools; Nonprofit organizations; State; Federal; Education; Arizona; FOIA
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Under the Radar
Every year the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has been given a grant, which then will be distributed to airports. The question is where does this money come from and how is it spent? The answer to the first half is the commercial-airline passengers, who pay the ticket taxes which in turn becomes the grant. The second part of the question is answered by not the improvement of airline travel, but rather the private pilots who fly corporate and recreational planes.
Tags: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA); Federal fund; grants; airports; planes; airlines; commercial-airline; passengers; ticket taxes; pilots; private airplanes; flights
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Grants, Graft and Greed at Workforce West Virginia
Mary Jane Bowling, an employee at the Workforce West Virginia office, secretly distributed federal grant money to her son's company, Comar, Inc. Martin Bowling then used the money to pay for travels to conferences that ultimately helped expand his company. Reporter Eric Eyre later exposed an attempted cover-up of the mishandled money by Mary Jane Bowling and her housemate, Christine Gardner, who ran the West Virginia State University's Economic Development Center in Charleston.
Tags: MetroValley Magazine; WVSU; Comar; Christine Gardner; Mary Jane Bowling; Martin Bowling; Albert Hendershot; Zi.ma; Mandi Felty
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Afghanistan: Corrupted by Drugs
The three-part series tracks the distribution of heroin and opium out of Afghanistan throughout Central Asia. The narcotic industry in Afghanistan exists securely under the foster care of U.S. forces while feeding the epidemic-sized hunger for heroin in Russia.
Tags: Tom Lasseter; narcotics; Russia; Afghanistan; Asia; heroin; opium; drugs; economy; trade; military; Tajik;
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"Dodik/RS Development Bank"
CIN reporters investigated a Bosnia-Herzegovina SIPA report that accused Republika Sprska Prime Minister Milorad Dodik of abusing his power by awarding financial "tenders" to friends. The CIN found flaws in the initial SIPA report. Reporters also reveal Dodik's control of the Investment-Development Bank of RS and detail their questionable loan distributions.
Tags: Bosnia-Herzegovina; SIPA; State Investigation and Protection Agency; Milorad Dodik; Investment-Development Bank of RS; Republika Sprska Prime Minister
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Undercover Inside Ghana's "Mad House"
A reporter spends seven months undercover in Ghana's major psychiatric hospital. In a series of four stories, he uncovers the "neglect and abuse" of patients by the staff, as well as the purchase and distribution of narcotics within the hospital walls.
Tags: mental; patients; psychiatric; hospital; Burkina