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Inside National Grid's Secretive $25 Million
The reporters exposed a secret fund controlled by local power company National Grid. An add-on charge to each customer's monthly bill built a $25 million slush fund for two utility officials to spend on favored economic development projects.
Tags: electric company; utility fee; energy; rates; no-bid contract; favoritism
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System Failure
"In June 2006, the auditor general of Newfoundland and Labrador began filing blockbuster reports on the spending habits of the province's politicians. The money is question came from their constituency allowances- a type of expense account that had long been derided as a type of political slush fund."
Tags: MHA; Derek Green; M.O. Morgan; Lloyd Snow; Douglas Oldford; Beaton Tulk;
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Scandal At UMDNJ
"A series of investigative and enterprise stories into how the University of Medicine and Dentistry of new Jersey violated the public's trust- which uncovered widespread fraud and abuse at the nation's largest public health sciences university, ranging from the payment of illegal kickbacks to cardiologists for patient referrals, to inside deals that threatened a bio-research lab deemed crucial to the security of the New York metropolitan area. The stories led to federal and state investigations, dozens of resignations, likely indictments, and a governor's task force now seeking to restructure the university."
Tags: university; dentistry; health science; New York; bio-research; slush fund; money;
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Betrayal Of Trust
The investigation delved into the actions of a nonprofit foundation that was initially created to help students choose careers but became the private slush fund for the new foundation president.
Tags: nonprofit foundation; FOIA; financial discrepancies; federal investigation; FOIA
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Money for Nothing
The author investigated the South Dallas/ Fair Park Trust Fund, a city-funded entity designed to foster the growth of businesses in a part of the city that has gone into decay. The author found that the city of Dallas has spent $6 million over 15 years funding businesses that have gone bankrupt.
Tags: business; real estate; public safety; slush fund; urban development; city government
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Slush Funds
"This series of stories reveals that the three men who run New York's state governments have stuck state taxpayers with more than $1 billion in debt over the last seven years for a series of secretive slush funds under their tight control. State leaders use money to reward political friends and punish enemies. They use the money to keep rank and file legislators obedient. The stories show many examples of millions pent on failed or dubious projects." The investigation also found that the state gets around the constitutional requirement that voters approve new debt and that the grant-granting system is closed and political.
Tags: FOIA; state government; grants; funds; taxpayers; debt; slush fund; money; misspent
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New York Slush Funds
The three men who run New York's state government have stuck state taxpayers with more than $1 billion in debt over the last seven years for a series of secretive slush funds under their tight control. State leaders use the money to reward political friends and punish enemies. They use the money to keep rank-and-file legislators obedient. The stories show many examples of millions spent on failed or dubious projects.
Tags: taxpayers; Gov. George Pataki; Sheldon Silver; Joseph Bruno; New York City Catholic art museum; debt; Empire State Development Corp.; State of New York; New York taxpayers; Carnegie Hall; National Baseball Hall of Fame; Carrier Dome; Roswell Park Cancer Institute; Centers for Excellence; Empire Opportunity Fund; Junior Museum; capital-improvement programs; Community Enhancement Facilities Assistance Program; Strategic Investment Program; Senate Majority leader; borrowing money; legislators; public money; Kraft Foods; Guardian Industries; Canadian American Transportation Systems; Division of Human Rights; National Museum of Catholic Art and History; New York Susquehanna and Western Railroad; Dormitory Authority; IRS; Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum; Bard College; YMCA; New York's Public Officers Law; Central New York Regional Market; campaign donations; borrowed-money grants
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Favoritism in School Contracts
This investigation revealed that the director of the Ohio School Facilities Commission received favors from companies to which he awarded unbid contracts as part of the state's #3 billion program to build and renovate schools. Furthermore, the investigation showed how an ongoing campaign fund controlled by the governor to campaign on state issues was a slush fund for companies doing business with the state. Almost 90 percent of the school design and construction management contracts went to firms that contributed to the fund.
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New Scandals in L.A. Court
Insight reports on "an alleged slush fund for the L.A. Superior Court Judges Association and the possible extortion of civil litigants by some officers of the court."
Tags: L.A. Superior Court Judges Association; civil litigants; LASCJA; court; law; corruption
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World Business Review Investigation
Bob Garfield reports that the "World Business Review" television program hosted by former Secretary of State Alexander Haig was not the business-news magazine it was posing as to colleges and universities in order to keep tapes of the programs on their library shelves. This was rather a weekly infomercial, charging "interviewees" for their appearance and collaborating with those paying clients in fashioning "interview" questions. Garfield also found that the show was using a slush fund, with a fictitious corporate title, to circumvent federal regulations about paying time and advertising on public TV.
Tags: Alexander Haig; universities; libraries; infomercial; public television; corruption; TAPE; RADIO; transcript