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Major political contributor receives helping hand
Reporters Cary Spivak and Patrick Marley of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel disclosed that a top official in Gov. Jim Doyle
Read MoreMiami’s political leader arrested on fraud and grand theft
Debbie Cenziper of The Miami Herald reports that one of Miami’s leading political and civic figures, Raul Masvidal, was arrested on fraud and grand theft charges. The arrest is the result of an investigation prompted by The Herald‘s “House of Lies” series that exposed rampant corruption in the Miami-Date Housing Agency. Masvidal is one of…
Read MoreSqueezing millions from pennies
Ron Campbell of the Orange County Register reports on Irvine businessman Mark Ellis who made millions of dollars through his money-losing penny stock company, Winsted Holdings. By reverse-splitting the stock and then flooding the market with billions of new shares, he effectively drove down the stock’s price to a hundredth of a penny.The story explores…
Read MoreHousing conditions for Milwakee’s impoverished mentally ill
Reforms promised after the story reveals that man under Milwaukee County’s care was dead for days before his body was discovered. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporter Meg Kissinger continues her year-long coverage of housing conditions for Milwakee’s impoverished mentally ill. The latest story details how a man had been dead for up to four days before…
Read More“Shame of the State” uncovers assisted-living horrors in Pennsylvania
Ken Dilanian of The Philadelphia Inquirer found a long list of health and safety violations, a history of substandard care, and a system of state oversight that, until recently, often allowed deficient operators to violate safety rules with virtual impunity in the assisted-living homes of Philadelphia. Since 2000, at least 55 assisted-living residents have died…
Read MoreBallooning cost of senior judges
Brandon Ortiz of the Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader analyzed court records to show that Kentucky’s judicial retirement system will pay out at least $1.57 million this year to compensate retired judges who work part-time to ease court backlogs. That’s far more than the $420,000 agreed to seven years ago. “That revelation raises questions about whether the…
Read MoreSelling innocence
Scott Zamost and Jeff Burnside of WTVJ-South Florida update the 2001 “Selling Innocence” investigation by interviewing Savannah Haile, now 12 years old. Pictures of Haile were posted on a so-called “child-modeling” Web site without her consent, and her story became part of the WTVJ stories. The report exposed the two men behind the Florida-based Web…
Read MoreSex offenders found in school safety zones
Chris Halsne of KIRO-Seattle used a computer analysis to locate more than 900 known child rapists and molesters living inside “school protection zones.” Using mapping software, KIRO Team 7 Investigators plotted addresses of every school and every registered sex offender convicted of violating a child. Despite the fact that last June, state lawmakers ruled that…
Read MoreHard lessons learned on the way to school
Jason Whitely of KHOU-Houston analyzed street-by-street crime data from the past two years to find out how close the city
Read MoreInvestigation launched, repairs started after report on Walter Reed
In their continued coverage of conditions at Walter Reed, Dana Priest and Anne Hull of The Washington Post report that while Michael J. Wagner directed the Medical Family Assistance Center at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, he also was seeking funders and soliciting donations for his own new charity, based in Dallas, according to documents…
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