The IRE Resource Center is a major research library containing more than 23,250 investigative stories — both print and broadcast. These stories are searchable online or by contacting the Resource Center directly (573-882-3364 or rescntr@ire.org) where a researcher can help you pinpoint what you need. Browse or search the tipsheet section of our library below. Stories are not available for download but can be easily ordered by contacting the Resource Center:
Search results for "tax payer money" ...
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Bruton's $800 Million Incentive
Bell takes a look behind the scenes to see how a billionaire NASCAR track owner was able to get "$80 million in incentives from local officials after he threatened to move his racing complex."
Tags: NASCAR; city government; tax payer money; incentive; Bruton Smith; public officials; money
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Out of Options
Although Arizona has received more than 1,000 complaints about the private company they hire to take care of the mentally ill, Value Options continues to be paid millions of tax-payer money each year. In response to the KNXV investigation, Arizona announced a ground-breaking plan to improve the mental health system--including better housing, supervision and care.
Tags: mental health; Value Options; FOIA; mentally ill; case work; social work; health care; behavior
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Empire Zones
Empire Zones is New York's program of business incentives that gives companies hundreds of millions of dollars in tax payers money to start business and increase employment. However, the present business establishment milks some loopholes in the existing law, much to their own lucrative benefits. While some companies are allowed to simply change their names and be treated as new businesses; others eliminate all their state taxes for a decade by doing as little hiring as one person. The series also shows that "some of Syracuse's biggest commercial buildings could get millions in tax relief for doing almost nothing".
Tags: Empire Zone Law; Gov. George Pataki; McAuliffe; Duke's Realty Co.
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That Great Sucking Sound. How well do nonprofits with city contracts comply with San Francisco's sunshine laws? Most of them don't.
This brief article documents the San Francisco Bay Guardian's attempts to gather documents and information from nonprofit groups in the San Francisco area. Most of the nonprofit organizations the paper interacted with did not comply with the law.
Tags: nonprofits; money; non profits; tax; taxes; tax payers; San Francisco; cash; law; information; finances
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Violence: A Hidden Health Epidemic
The Detroit News looks at the heath care related onus of intentional violence. The four-day series tracks the costs of violence to tax payers, gridlock in gun prevention, the lack of money spent on violence prevention and possible solutions to the problem.
Tags: violence; health care; suicide; gun control; domestic violence; child abuse; Medicare; Medicaid
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Unfair Share
Newsday investigates the faulty property tax systems of Nassau and Suffolk Counties in New York. In Suffolk County, those living in poorer areas tend to pay more property taxes than those living in more well-to-do places. In Nassau, the county government racks up about $100 million in "borrowing costs each year to finance returns" for those Long Island tax payers who challenge their tax bills.
Tags: New York; Nassau County; Suffolk County; property taxes; money
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1991 IRE TV Award Winners and Finalists Tape.
The 1991 IRE TV Award Winners and Finalists Tape is a compilation of 5 investigative stories. 1.) "Televangelists," Prime Time Live, ABC News investigates the business practices of three highly successful and prominent televangelists who capitalize on the beliefs of their followers and collect millions of dollars in tax-free donations each year; reveals phony faith healings and high-pressure money-making schemes. See #8402. 2.) "The Great American Bailout," PBS Frontline and The Center for Investigative Reporting San Francisco reports on the Resolution Trust Corporation and how it is ignoring the needs of low-income families in its bailout of the savings and loans program. See # 8259, 8260, 8261 and 8262. 3.) "Signed Sealed and Suckered," WDHD Boston uncovers rampant redlining of minority neighborhoods and a pattern of discrimination by home improvement contractors and second mortgage lenders, charging inflated prices for shoddy work and loan interest rates of 24 %. See # 8334. 4.) "Down the Drain," WKRN, Nashville looks at the city's water and sewer department and finds hundreds of thousands of dollars in rate payers' money wasted and "Good Ole' Boy" connections. See # 8231. 5.) "Trash Fraud in Onodaga County," WSTM, Syracuse N.Y. finds fraud within the trash hauling industry in Onondaga County, N.Y. The hauling company places weights in its trucks in order to cheat the system. See # 8171.
Tags: TAPE; ire; car; religion; telemarketing; legal discrimination; construction; garbage.
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Powerful new weapons have sent the cost of crime spiraling, not only for victims, but also for tax payers. Multiple gunshot wounds need more extensive and expensive medical attention. The stereotypical victim of a paralyzing wound is a young black mail with no medical insurance. (July 1, 1996)
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Crime Pays Big Time!
The investigation reveals how the U.S. spends untold millions of dollars on some of the worst criminals known to man. Tax-payer money helps serial murderers live in comfort and plot further crimes. The author of the article has the inside-track from his own shady background as a criminal and government stool pigeon. (February 1996)
Tags: Taylor Crime pays big time! Judicial system Criminal justice Lawyers U.S. district attorney Drugs Courts Janet Reno Narrative; 7pgs