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ABC News Brian Ross Investigates: Money Trail 2012
While most of the political press followed the usual rapid spin cycle of the 2012 presidential campaigns, Brian Ross and the ABC News Investigative team instead focused on the corrupting influence of the unprecedented flood of big money on politics, exposing details of Romney’s hidden wealth, ferreting out the identities of secret big money donors and exposing political pay-offs to Obama’s top donors in a series of original investigative reports on ABC World News, Nightline and a year’s worth – more than two dozen front page print stories on ABCNews.com.
Tags: politics; political press; presidential campaign; Obama; Romney; wealth
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National Security and Terrorism Beat
The Brian Ross Investigative Unit looked at various national security issues including the Seattle Bomb Plot, the killing of Osama bin Laden, the war in Libya, the killing of Anwar al Awlaki and the killing of a Saudi ambassador to the U.S. that was thought to have been sought by the Iranian government.
Tags: broadcast; terrorism; Seattle Bomb Plot; Osama bin Laden; Libya; Anwar al Awlaki; national security
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Green Energy: Contracts, Connections and the Collapse of Solyndra
Beginning in March, the Center's Ronnie Greene and ABC's Matthew Mosk and Brian Ross exposed flaws in the Department of Energy's billion-dollar spending spree, revealed deep links between Obama campaign bundlers and energy contracts and foreshadowed the financial and political storm that later engulfed Solyndra. Our reporting for "Green Energy: Contracts, Connections and the Collapse of Solyndra" broke ground before Solyndra's meltdown, and went well beyond the company in revealing a web of connections entangling a department lauded for its innovation. Working as full-reporting partners, our stories tied major Obama donors to lucrative green energy contracts for everything from electric cars to diesel substitutes. After over a year of reporting, we produced 50,000 words for the Center's website, thousands more on ABC's site and broadcasts on World News Tonight, Good Morning America and Nightline. Our stories, built from FOIA requests that yielded thousands of contract, financial and ethics documents, served as a template for national media reports that followed.
Tags: contracts; green energy; Obama; green energy; spending
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McDonald's Eggs
A story exposing major health concerns at a major American egg farm supplying large retailers such as McDonald's and Target with eggs.
Tags: animal abuse; McDonald's; target; hen farm; salmonella; health concerns; egg farm; animals
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20/20 Peace Corps: A Trust Betrayed
An ABC News 10-month investigation into the murder of a young Peace Corps volunteer that led to the discovery of severe flaws in the way abuse is reported within the Peace Corps. ABC's report led to President Obama signing a law that is aimed at protecting the volunteers better.
Tags: Peace Corps; murder; abuse; broadcast
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Brian Ross Investigates: Taking Toyota
The investigative team reveals how Toyota had for years ignored complaints from hundreds of its owners about serious safety defects in cars that that were marketed around the world as among the safest on the road.
Tags: Toyota; cars; safety defect; driving; vehicle
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Brian Ross Investigates: Jesus Rifle
The U.S. military bars the proselytizing of any religion by troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. However, an ABC News investigation found that the U.S. military had been distributing thousands of weapons to U.S. troops that were inscribed with coded references to Bible passages about Jesus Christ.
Tags: Jesus; guns; military; Afghanistan; Iraq; Trijicon; army
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Brian Ross Investigates: State House Scoundrels
The story explores the unsettling problem of state house corruption and reveals what really happens at Kentucky's annual conference of state lawmakers.
Tags: state politics; state house; lawmakers; legislators;
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Brian Ross Investigates: Blood Diamonds
The story investigated the charge that ex-Liberian President Charles Taylor used blood diamonds to pay for weapons in the way against the neighboring nation of Sierra Leone. The story ultimately forced fashion model Naomi Campbell to testify at Taylor's trial for receiving diamonds from Taylor during a visit to Nelson Mandela's home.
Tags: Naomi Campbell; Sierra Leone; blood diamonds; human rights; Nelson Mandela; Liberia
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Brian Ross Investigates: The Printer Bomb Plot
Exclusive reports reveal key details in the plot to send packages containing explosive devices to the US. ABC's stories include the first identification of the suspect and the first photo of the suspected package.