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The Times Herald-Record’s Michael Levensohn conducted an exhaustive investigation painstakingly detailing how a local businessman, Donald Boehm, looted an estate of millions of dollars and has become the focus of a police investigation in the most notorious unsolved killing in the region. The reporting for this story began in April 2004 with the bankruptcy filings…
Read MoreEric Nalder and Lewis Kamb of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer uncover more police abuses in a continuation of the “Conduct Unbecoming” series. In their latest installment — focusing on a specialized King County Sheriff’s unit assigned to police the Metro regional transit system — Nalder and Kamb, with assists from P-I beat reporters, turned out a…
Read MoreAn extensive four-part series by Debbie Cenziper, Susannah Nesmith and Tim Henderson of The Miami Herald has uncovered extensive corruption in the Miami-Dade Housing Agency. Their investigation uncovered a system which has operated like “an unchecked cash machine for developers and consultants and its own leaders and failed the families it was meant to serve.”…
Read MoreIn a coordinated series that broadcast in Denver, Atlanta, Las Vegas and Dallas, investigative reporter Tony Kovaleski of 7NEWS in Denver spoke to 17 Air Marshals from those four cities who believe current policies jepordize national security. Don Strange, a former director of the Air Marshal Service’s Atlanta office, addressed his concerns in memos to…
Read MoreThe Indianapolis Star’s Kevin Corcoran looks into the construction project to expand Indianapolis’s Central Library which is now two years behind schedule and more than $50 million over budget. An extensive review of documents and interviews with involved parties suggest that the Library Board’s decision not to employ a general contractor led to this debacle.…
Read MoreESPN.com offers a series delving deeper into the 2004 death of Pfc. Pat Tillman, who left the NFL to serve with the Army Rangers in Afghanistan, and the questions still under investigation by the defense department. TThe story of Tillman’s patriotism and personal sacrifice made headlines, but the Pentagon later acknowledged that he was killed…
Read MoreFollowing the announcement of murder charges against a New Orleans doctor and two nurses on duty in the wake Hurricane Katrina, CNN continues its Emmy-nominated investigative series, “Death at Memorial Hospital” with exclusive interviews with siblings of the accused Dr. Anna Pou, who maintains her innocence. “In October, CNN reported exclusively that after deteriorating conditions…
Read MorePaula Lavigne of The Dallas Morning News found that “the United States Department of Agriculture does not know how often organic rules are broken and has not consistently taken action when potential violations were pointed out.” Audits and inspection reports point to weak oversight of the certifying organizations that bestow official organic status on behalf…
Read MoreKent Fischer, Tawnell D. Hobbs and Molly Motley of the Dallas Morning News analyzed local school district credit card transactions to find that “only a fraction of purchase receipts are scrutinized, and thousands of purchases run afoul of DISD policy and state purchasing laws.” Among the $20 million spent each year by district employees with…
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