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Game of Shadows: Barry Bonds, BALCO, and the Steroids scandal that Rocked Professional Sports
San Francisco Chronicle reporters broke the story that some elite athletes used drugs to "run faster, hit harder, and cash in on the fame that comes only to those at the very top of their games." Fainaru-Wada and Williams used"Federal Grand Jury transcripts and federal investigative reports... court records and state health department records," among other documents. (332 pages)
Tags: steroids; drugs; BALCO; Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative; San Francisco Chronicle; Victor Conte; Major League Baseball; football; track and field; California Public Records Act; Federal Grand Jury; sports agents; trainers; sports doping; Olympics; Justice Department; IRS; U.S. Anti-Doping Agency; USADA
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Stanford's disappearing game refuge.
The Stanford University foothills, which are major spots of academic and technological advancement today, are in fact lands dedicated by the state legislature as a state game refuge in 1927. The Weekly reveals how the California Department of Fish & Game abandoned management of the refuge in the early 1950s. Further, the story discusses why the refuge status remains relevant today, despite Fish & Game and Stanford's assertions that the refuge as an entity worth protection is obsolete.
Tags: ornithological; Junipero Serra Road; Stanford Dish Area; Don Feria
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Coverage of Card Club Indictments
The San Jose Mercury News covers the indictment of 55 people connected with area cardrooms that offer "California games," a variety of Asian-style games that are popular with the city's Vietnamese population. The indictments -- and subsequent investigations that revealed loan sharking and drug dealing connected with cardrooms -- led the city of San Jose to shut down all of its card-clubs.
Tags: cardrooms; gambling; loan sharks; drugs; crime; San Jose; California; Vietnamese; California games; Asian
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Tax-sale tactics get a hard look; Tax-sale buyer's tactics scrutinized; Witness protection inquiry possible; Records, interviews reflect Davis' posh past; Behind on their taxes, these homeowners crossed paths with Davis; Tale of four properties; Tax-sale law with bigger payoffs may be a 'monster;' State says D.M, businessman disguised loans as home sales; Man monitored client of Davis, was convicted
The Des Moines Register investigates slum lord Josh Davis, a former drug accountant for the Medellin Cartel who had gone into the witness-protection program. After Davis moved from California to Iowa, he began buying properties through tax sales. "He turned some properties into slum housing and found ways to take other properties he couldn't obtain through tax-delinquent liens... He,,, played cat and mouse games to keep city officials from closing properties with major code violations, intimidated or tricked people into signing over their homes and rented out dozens of improperly seized properties to make money."
Tags: Josh Davis; Medellin Cartel; drugs; witness-protection program; money; slum lords; housing; Iowa; California
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1998 IRE TV Award Winners and Finalists Tape.
The 1998 TV Award Winners and Finalists Tape is a compilation of 12 investigative stories. 1.) "Tomb of the Unknowns," CBS News. A 13-part series that forced the government to face the truth about how it defaced one of the nation's most sacred shrines and denied a grieving mother the truth about her son. See #15332. 2.) "The Deadly Trade in Fake Medicine," CBS News, 60 Minutes. Substandard medicine marketed by a secret network of manufacturers, peddlers make fortunes and regulators have failed to stop this deadly trade. See #15241. 3.) "Abuse of Power." ABC News 20/20. The U.S. military's power to strike back at personnel who are critical. Whistleblowers who expose misconduct, waste, fraud and abuse are told they are mentally ill. See #15282. 4.) "Shell Game." NBC News Dateline. A hidden camera investigation inside a plant that processes 2 million eggs a day, reveals eggs up to a month old, are mixed in with fresh eggs, rewashed, repacked and sold like new. See #15236. 5.) "Doublecross." ABC Primetime. This investigation reveals how the United States government turned a drug smuggler into a top informant and then allowed him to distribute cocaine into the United States. See #15251. 6.) "Fake Doctors, Real Dangers." CBS-2 News, Los Angeles. This series uncovers fake doctors all over Southern California running illegal clinics. See #15259. 7.) "Impact: Forced Sterilization." WXYZ investigates into the sterilization of thousands of men, women and children by the state government in Michigan. See #15373. 8.) "Oath of Silence." WMAQ. This four-month investigation exposes secret malpractice settlements that are costing taxpayers millions of dollars. See #15373. 9.) "Troubled Transit." WTXF, Philadelphia. This three-month investigation of the Septa Public Transit in Philadelphia reveals some of the transit workers are not doing the jobs the taxpayers are paying them to do. See #15221. 10.) "Olympic Bribery Scandal." KTVX. Salt Lake Olympic Organizers have been spending thousands of dollars to pay the college tuition of international Olympic associate's relatives. See # 15201. 11.) "Stadium Investigation." WCPO, Cincinnati. Hamilton County in Cincinnati have spent more than a billion dollars to build and finance a new stadium, promising more business for minorities and women. A five-month investigation uncovers many broken promises. 12.) "Mismanagement 101." KWTV, Oklahoma City. Millions of dollars in overspending, fraud, waste and allegations of cover-up. Example; 50 construction employees were diverted from air conditioning the elementary school to building an all automatic, high-tech bathroom located just outside the superintendent's office. See # 15303.
Tags: TAPE; Vietnam; Freedom of Information Act; FOI; Computer Assisted Reporting; CAR; IRE; no transcripts.
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No title (id: 13810)
The story offers a window into Indian gambling casinos in California, and the attraction of criminals and scam artists to these lucrative enterprises. The San Francisco Chronicle learned that a group of land speculators, including a man previously convicted of theft and others sued for fraud, were behind a proposal to develop 321 acres of farmland -- one of the last stretches of open space on the San Francisco Bay. The group has disguised its plans to eventually build a gambling casino at the site. In a profit-sharing scheme, the speculators have teamed up with the Hopland Pomo Indians to establish a new Indian Reservation on the acreage -- and then declare the site immune from federal gaming laws. (March 16, 1996)
Tags: Doyle Trail of failed projects behind pomos' bay plan Contest entry 5 pgs.
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No title (id: 13147)
Lobbying in Sacramento isn't what it used to be. Lawmakers and the public no longer know what is a genuine expression of citizen opinion and what is merely sentiment manufactured by a well-heeled special interest. The Sacramento Bee examines how an "outside" game using techniques called "grass roots", "public relations" and "coalition-building" is changing the face of political lobbying in California. (July 16, 1995)
Tags: Hayward Bernstein Campaigns Elections Politics 20 pgs.
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No title (id: 2622)
San Francisco Bay Guardian article says California's Sylvan National Forests are damaged by continual training and warfare games by the military and the National Guard, August 1983.
Tags: Ross CA