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KMOV: Welfare Withdrawal Fraud
Thousands of Missouri tax dollars spent in casinos, strip clubs, and bars.These are Missouri welfare cards being accessed for cash at ATMs in some bizarre places. The state can’t tell you how nearly $100 million of your tax dollars are actually spent because what’s purchased with that cash isn’t tracked, but the ATM locations are recorded. News 4 spent the last two years digging into this issue and continues to find plenty of red flags.
Tags: Taxes; taxpayers; welfare cards
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Secret Service Strip Club: El Salvador
Seattle-based investigative reporter Chris Halsne tracks down a reluctant source in El Salvador to expose allegations that getting drunk, partying with strippers, and paying for sex with third-world prostitutes is part of the U.S. Secret Service culture. This investigative series is aired just weeks after agents were caught in Columbia with hookers – and just days after Homeland Security Director announced to Congress that Columbia was an isolated incident.
Tags: corruption; U.S. Secret Service; El Salvador; Seattle
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War Zone: The Destruction of an All-American City
The hour-long documentary War Zone: The Destruction of an All-American City takes an unprecedented look at the impact of corruption on the East St. Louis, Illinois area, one of the poorest and most violent communities in America. The program was broadcast twice during prime time; Tuesday night at 8 pm on August 28, and the following Saturday night at 7 pm. This project was the result of an ongoing decade-long probe of government waste, corruption, police misconduct, and violence in East St. Louis and the surrounding villages by investigative reporter Craig Cheatham. Our documentary begins with a detailed look at police misconduct and corruption, how it has contributed to the breakdown of public safety in the East St. Louis area, and why local politicians tolerated such outrageous behavior by their officers. The second part of our documentary focuses on the impact of derelict and vacant housing, the slumlords who own the property and the people who live in some of the worst housing in the metro area. Our investigation also uncovered new connections between politicians and legendary slumlord Ed Sieron, who was business partners with a longtime mayor. In addition, KMOV revealed that of the 500 mostly rundown properties that Sieron owns in East St. Louis, only 13 were cited for code violations. That lack of accountability for the notorious slumlord, empowered him and made the people living in his homes feel powerless. War Zone also exposes the way East St. Louis communities have sold their economy to vice-driven businesses like strip clubs, liquor stores, a casino, and convenience marts that had a long history of selling illegal synthetic drugs. Our investigation found that nearly all of these businesses failed to employ a significant number of East St. Louis residents, even though they received millions of dollars in tax incentives that are paid by East St. Louis residents. At the same time East St. Louis is handing out tax breaks to wealthy out-of-town businessmen, it repeatedly refused to provide the same tax incentives for local residents who wanted to create family friendly businesses that would employ people living in the East St. Louis area.
Tags: government corruption; police misconduct; violence; politicians; community; local business
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Fiesta Bowl Under Fire; BCS The Money. The Games
The Republic's investigation resulted in the discovery of violations of state and federal campaign finance laws at the Fiesta Bowl and widespread financial mismanagement, including employees being reimbursed for taking luxurious out-of-town trips and visits to strip clubs.
Tags: The Republic; State and Federal Campaign Finance Law; Fiesta Bowl; BCS
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"Fiesta Bowl Under Fire" "BCS The Money. The Games"
Discovery of violations of state and federal campaign finance laws at the Fiesta Bowl and widespread financial mismanagement, including employees being reimbursed for taking luxurious out-of-town trips and visits to strip clubs. The investigation of the BCS found that public universities lose money playing in BCS games; bowls spend heavily on gifts for schools' top athletic officials; pay for the highest executives at the BCS bowls more than doubled since they reunited in the late 1990s; and three of the top bowls accepted large government subsidies even as their revenue and assets have grown.
Tags: BCS; Fiesta Bowl; college; football; fraud; financial mismanagement
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They Got the Sheriff
Orange County, Calif Sheriff Mike Carona was praised for values and ethics on a national level. However Moxley found that he had connections with a strip club owner "tied tot he Chicago Mafia," slept with women on duty and "promoted officers based on personal loyalty not competence."
Tags: police; sheriff; Mike Carona; mafia; strip club; Las Vegas; Orange County; Lebanon; anti-terrorism training exercises; police department
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When it Comes to Cooper's Proposed Restaurant, Questions Abound
"A high-profile, controversial strip club mogul is pressing forward with construction of what he insists will be an Italian restaurant in a family-oriented Memphis suburb. Details surrounding the development- and about the man himself and his past dealings- suggest otherwise."
Tags: strip club; restaurant; family
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Sex Slaves in America
The story is "the culmination of a year long investigation into the underreported epidemic of the forced trafficking of educated foreign women into the United States to work in the growing sex industry of massage parlors, strip clubs and cantinas in major American cities."
Tags: human trafficking; sex slaves; sex industry; sex rings; Detroit strip clubs; Houston cantinas; San Francisco's massage parlors; human rights violation
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Crime Magnets
This investigation used FBI Uniform Crime Report data to show that most of the crime in Tucson occurs in the North side of the city. The violence -- which can be explained by a combination of poverty, prostitution, drug dealing and strip clubs -- is so bad that many people choose to move away rather than work to change the situation. The findings contradict the perception that the predominately Hispanic South side of Tucson, where gang violence is prevalent, is the most dangerous area of the city.
Tags: crime; CAR; UCR data; red-light district; neighborhood associations; police; crime control. statistics
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The Wrong Man
Brian Kelley, a decorated undercover CIA officer was investigated by the FBI to the point of nearly destroying his life, and his career. Kelley was the wrong man. The man the FBI actually arrested was Robert Hanssen, for selling secrets to Russia. Breaking his silence, Kelley spoke to 60 Minutes about his ordeal and about efforts by top FBI officials to keep their mistakes secret.
Tags: TAPE; spy; FBI; CIA; secret; CIA officer; arrest; agent; undercover officer; Justice Department; spy catcher; spy map; secret evidence; top secret; espionage; KGB; Brian Kelley; Robert Hansen; strip club; strip joint; porn sites; diamonds; mole; capital offense; capital crime; investigator.