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Robert Felner
Former University of Louisville Dean Robert Felner was involved in a money laundering scheme that led to the misappropriation of $2.3 million in contract and federal grant funds.
Tags: Thomas Schroeder; mail fraud; University of Rhode Island; education; graduate school;
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Target Practice
A grand jury subpoena requested that all of the Phoenix New Times' notes, tapes, stories and other material regarding Sheriff Joe Arpaio since January 1, 2004 be seized. The prosecutor even demanded names of any person who visited the newspaper's website since 2004 as well. This series tells the story of the New Times' struggle against over-reaching public officials, as well as a larger story about diminishing rights to privacy and freedom of expression.
Tags: Andrew Thomas; Dennis Wilenchik; freedom of speech; courts; city government; state government; law enforcement; internet; First Amendment
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Man Down
This investigation tells the story of Thomas Jones, and inmate at the D.C. Jail. One day he collapsed while playing basketball and, later that evening, died of a heart attack. This investigation sheds light on how officers at the jail failed to save his life.
Tags: jail; prison guards; inmates; medical response; CPR
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Letters from an Arsonist
"This story chronicled the rampage of Thomas Sweatt, a serial arsonist who was arrested in April 2005 and later admitted to setting a string of fires that terrorized the Washington area for years...Jamieson not only nailed down a startling psychological profile of the man, but also uncovered the extent of Sweatt's destruction -- he had set hundreds of fires stretching over more than two decades."
Tags: crime; arson; murder; letters; psychological profile; plea bargain; fire
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A Pattern of Suspicion
This fourteen month investigation into racial profiling began with the 2001 death of Timothy Thomas, an African - American teenager in Cincinnati. Thomas had fourteen police warrants before he was killed, all of which stemmed from unpaid traffic tickets for non-moving violations. These sorts of violations are often used as a pretext for seeing if suspicious motorists have drugs or guns. In nearly every city Dateline looked at, blacks were stopped or ticketed for non-moving violations at least twice as often as whites.
Tags: racism; profiling; traffic tickets; police corruption