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Con-Men: Grant Chasers Plague Katrina Aid
This series investigates the malfeasance and graft inside Louisiana's $750 million home elevation grant program, a federally financed effort to help Katrina victims rebuild safer homes.
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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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Sweetheart Deals
This investigation looked at "county-owned land deals in Prince George's County. They found that most of the deals - worth millions of dollars - went to people with close ties to County Executive Jack B. Johnson, including a business partner, golfing buddy, a former business partner and campaign contributors. Many of the deals were not put out to bid."
Tags: housing market; real estate; corruption; preferential treatment; favoritism; graft; sweetheart deals
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War Profiteers?
This CBS 60 Minutes segment uses the story of two men with no experience who were awarded multi-million dollar contracts from the Provisional Coalition Authority in Iraq as a lead into the allegations of war profiteering by larger companies like Halliburton and Kellogg, Brown and Root.
Tags: Iraq; Afghanistan; Middle East; Green Zone; corruption; graft; fraud; kickbacks; bribery; waste; Army Rangers; breach of contract; Custer Battles; Scott Custer; Mike Battles; Ambassador Paul Bremer; Colonel Richard Ballard; Frank Willis; procurement; war profiteers; Coalition Provisional Authority; Coalition Authority's Ministry of Finance; Colonel Philip Wilkinson; Robert Isaacson; Cayman Islands; Justice Department; whistleblower lawsuit; Halliburton; Kellogg, Brown and Root; KBR; Senator Byron Dorgan; Special Inspector General Stuart Bowen;
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Tennessee Waltz: Legislation for sale
Times reporters exposed fraud and graft among Tennessee state legislators, and an FBI investigation of the matter. The state's ethics watchdog agency was found to be passive and ineffectual, failing to audit legislators, or keep records or enforce regulations.
Tags: state government; watchdog; corruption; lobbying; fraud; graft; state legislature; ethics; bribery; lobbyists; FBI
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First in Flight, but last in mercy
The Baltimore Sun reports on the trial of Melissa Marvin, a 30-year who killed four while driving drunk in Kitty Hawk, N.C. Marvin was charged with murder, in addition to driving while intoxicated. Marvin was convicted of four counts of second-degree murder and one count of "assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury" and sentenced to 60 years in prison without parole. Sjoerdsma, a attorney/mediator and freelance journalist writes that "by grafting murder law onto DWI cases, North Carolina may be running roughshod over traditional notions of justice."
Tags: DWI; murder; North Carolina; alcohol; Melissa Marvin; justice; legal system; courts; crime
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Scarce Goods: Justice, Fairness and Organ Transplantation
Koch's book examines the origins of scarcity of blood and graft organs. The main finding is that the problem has existed at least since a famous legal case of U.S. v. Holmes, 1842, which dealt wit the question of lifeboat ethics - "who should die so that others might survive?" Koch looks at the lifeboat ethics' modern application to the distribution of transplantable organs. Using mapping software, the author reveals that "the scarcity of organs is exacerbated, where not created, by racial and regional inequalities inherent in the American health care and transplant system."
Tags: BOOK; Department of Health and Human Services; United Network for Organ Sharing; race; ethnicity; minorities; National Organ Transplant Act; justice; poverty; health insurance; GIS
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Hate Club
Time investigates the terrorist "world-wide web" Al-Qaeda, whose leader is believed to be Osama bin Laden. The story package reveals background details for most of the organization's leaders. The special report tells how al-Qaeda has been sprawling all over the world in the last two decades. Some major findings are that terrorists might have been using publicly accessible websites to hide their instructions, and that the organization might have presence in Bosnia, plotting to attack Nato military facilities there.
Tags: Afghanistan; September 11; World Trade Center; Osama bin Laden; Islam; Muslims; jihad; Ayman Al-Zawahiri; Internet; religion; violence
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Washington (D.C.) City Paper reveals the extent of the patronage, political control and graft that is involved with who gets the district's contracts on its lottery, July 9, 1993. # DC Symmes GTECH LTE D.C. Data
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Money laid to waste by Kootenai official
"Kim Yerxa enjoyed life as a high-roller during his two years as director of the solid-waste department of Kootenai County, Idaho. Unfortunately, county taxpayers often paid the bill. The Spokesman-Review/Spokane Chronical documented 15 instances of how Yerxa routinely lavished work clothes and other perks on his staff, favored friends and relatives with jobs, and used county equipment and vehicles as his own."
Tags: Cronyism; graft; malfeasance; corruption; local government county government nepotism