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Tampa Bay Times: Stand Your Ground
In the wake of the Trayvon Martin shooting controversy, the Tampa Bay Times systematically reviewed scores of "stand your ground" cases and created the first database of its kind to bring the facts of all these cases together as a single source.
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Follow the Money
The year-long series of investigations tracked the federal money trail of tax dollars, charity dollars, and corporate/government conflicts of interest. One investigation exposed how many federal officials took all expense paid luxurious vacations funded by taxpayer money to the failed climate summit in Copenhagen.
Tags: tax dollars; money trail; federal officials; taxpayer money; Haiti; Copenhagen
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ArmorGroup Conflict of Interest
The Inspector General and his brother have a relationship where one helps the other and vice versa. The Inspector General was supposed to police the security contract at the U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan, but was protecting is brother an executive at ArmorGroup. ArmorGroup is the company accused of wrongdoing and has continuously gotten away with it.
Tags: Howard Krongard; Board of Directors; corruption; Kubal; State Department; watchdog; war contractor; complaint; scandal
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Secrets and Lies: bin Laden, Damra and the Birth of Terror in America
This investigation uncovered the strong ties between Fawaz Damra, a seemingly peaceful spiritual leader of Ohio's largest mosque, and Osama bin Laden. The investigators found that before moving to Ohio, Damra headed a radical mosque in Brooklyn, to which the people behind the 1993 World Trade Center bombing belonged. Furthermore, he was directly involved in fund-raising for terrorist "charities." Damra's charity was the predecessor of Al Qaeda, and gave bin Laden a foothold in America.
Tags: homeland security; Palestinian Islamic Jihad; Al Qaeda; WTC; national defense; FBI
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Southern Exposure - "The New Loan Sharks"
This two issue series documents how market forces and regulatory inaction have fostered a pattern of impropriety and lawbreaking among major lenders. The first issue focused on how Citigroup has become the leader in "subprime loans" targeted at moderate-income and minority borrowers. The article is supplemented by a timeline, sidebars and maps and tells the story of people whose financial lives have been wrecked by Citigroup's practices. Then, SE conducts an investigation of the subprime autofinancing market, They find that questionable car sales tactics are institutionalized practices fueled by top-down market forces and the policies of GMAC, Nissan and other big players.
Tags: General Motors; Maria Flores; CitiFinancial; Stanford I. Weill; Sherry Roller
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Investigating Sierra Leone
Last summer, the UN-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone indicted Charles Taylor, then president of Liberiann fir crimes allegedly committed during the civil war in neighboring Sierra Leone. It was only the second time a head of state had been indicted for international war crimes while in office. Prosecutors alleged Taylor was a central figure in a global criminal network that controlled rebels in Sierra Leone who committed murder, enslavement, rape and forced children into combat. American Radio Works journalists Deborah George and Michael Montgomery closely follow the work of investigators and prosecutors as they developed the cases against Taylor and other warlords. The Special Court was established last year in a treat between the UN and the Sierra Leone government and uses a mix of national and international law.
Tags: war; sierra leone; charles taylor; All Things Considered; radio; broadcast; CD; tape
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So Much to Discover
A WJW-TV investigation of Ohio's tourism campaign revealed the state squandered hundreds of thousands of dollars on a 30-second television commercial. The state's Department of Travel and Tourism spent $700,000 on the commercial -- $140,000 of that bill going to a last-minute decision to add the governor to the ad. WJW-TV found that "the state spent several times the going rate for services. Although it was the Governor's staff that insisted that he be added to the commercial, they insisted they had no idea it would cost so much." "So Much to Discover" is the slogan of the tourism campaign
Tags: Ohio; tourism; So Much to Discover; governor; tax dollars; state government; politics; TAPE; TRANSCRIPT
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How one man quietly assembled... A Towing Empire: Blackhawk man has built fortune off Oakland contract
The Oakland Tribune tells the story of Oakland multimillionaire Bill Taylor, a politically connected businessman who owns the only towing company contracted with the city of Oakland. Taylor's contract with the city has never been audited and the true value of the contract is known to no one expect Taylor and his associates. The Oakland Tribune suggests that Taylor may be getting preferential treatment from city council members.
Tags: Oakland; California; Bill Taylor; towing; city council; government; city politics; Blackhawk
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CIT Construction was once considered one of the fastest growing companies in Houston. This changed when the company was hired by the University of Texas. After increasing the project cost with unreasonable change orders, the University fired the company from the project and refused to pay the bill. Because of sovereign immunity, CIT cannot sue for the money. This is just one example examined by the National Law Journal claiming that doing business with the state of Texas is a high-risk adventure. (May 29, 1995)
Tags: Taylor The nation's bastion of contract immunity Lawsuit Associated General Contrators 2 pgs.