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Congressional Campaign Marred by Scandal
When federal authorities charged the finance director for Connecticut House Speaker Chris Donovan's congressional campaign with trying to hide campaign contributions, the Courant sought to uncover details of the probe and provide its readers stories that explained the significance of the arrest, peeling back the layers of a conspiracy that reached the highest levels of state government.
Tags: Federal authorities; campaign finance; state government
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Conscientious Objector: School Vaccination Investigation
A large number of parents are refusing to get their kids vaccinated for some of the most deadly diseases. State health experts didn’t know of the serve problem until the numbers told them. The numbers revealed that a “71% spike in the number of conscientious objections in the past five years”. This has left the administrative and parents asking questions that don’t have answers.
Tags: immunization records; school district; health; public; vaccine; wellness; swine flu; H1N1; outbreak
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"Faces of a Health Crisis: L.A. County's Swine Flu Victims"
The Neon Tommy team takes a look at the people directly affected by the H1N1 virus in L.A. County to find out exactly who was dying from the virus and why. In a review of 44 death certificates, the team found that 22 of the deceased had no "preexisting conditions" before contracting the H1N1 virus. They also found that the majority of those who died from H1N1 were women.
Tags: H1N1; Swine Flu; Los Angeles County; Annenberg Digital News; USC; pre-existing conditions
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Swine Flu Cases Overestimated?
"This exclusive, original investigation dug deep into the hype over H1N1, and the government's controversial decision to stop tracking swine flu cases in mid-summer. The swine flu was not nearly as prevalent as the government reported. In fact, the investigation revealed that the vast majority of illnesses attributed to the swine flu epidemic were not even flu at all." So, almost everyone who was diagnosed with swine flu didn't have it. The implications of the results are tremendous and have serious consequences.
Tags: Swine flu; H1N1; Centers for Disease Control; CDC; FOIA
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Toxic Taxes
Toxic Taxes explores how Obama's fiscal stimulus tax credits will expand business for unregulated tax preparers and create more opportunities to commit fraud.
Tags: unlicensed; unregulated; tax; tax preparers; tax credits; Obama administration; fiscal stimulus; H&R Block; fraud; Internal Revenue Service;
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Police Towing Scandal
Police officers were found to be using cars seized by the police department, the scandal led to the retirement of the Police Chief.
Tags: Department of Motor Vehicles; S & H Towing; St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department;
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Forced Out
This series from the Washington Post investigates the corrupt practices of landlords driving tenants from their homes under the guise of refusing repairs or forcing families to live without heat, hot water or electricity. This was in response to a law meant to give tenants a voice in the city's redevelopment. In recent years, tenants had fled more than 200 rent-controlled apartment complexes without the chance to vote on redevelopment. With empty buildings, landlords quickly reaped $328 million in condominium sales and avoided $16 million in conversion fees.
Tags: housing; tenant laws; redevelopment; housing-code violations; building inspections; negligent landlords; H.R. Crawford
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The Broken Work Visa System
The American work visa system was found by BusinessWeek to be hurting American workers and undermining the strength of the American economy. The investigation contributed to a Congressional probe in the visa program, led by Senators Dick Durbin and Chuck Grassley, who are determined to pass legislation to overhaul the program and eliminate its widespread misuse.
Tags: H-1B; skilled worker; specialization; Rochester Institute of Technology; temporary visa; immigration; outsourcing;
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The Big Eddy Club
The book re-investigates the "stocking stranglings, the murders of seven white women in Columbus, Georgia, that took place over an eight-month period 1977-8." The author has collected fresh evidence that the convicted Carlton Gary, may be innocent.
Tags: civil rights; evidence; DNA; semen; teeth marks; Georgia; stocking stranglings; murder; Thomas H. Brewer; Carlton Gary; re-investigate; wrongful conviction
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Conflict on the Bench
Evans examined two sitting federal judges, James H. Payne and Terrence Boyle, to determine their independence.Both were nominated by President Bush for higher court seats. Both have conflicts of interest on their bench: they each sat on cases that involved companies in which they owned stock. Judge Payne withdrew his nomination after the stories about him ran.
Tags: federal judge; stock; companies; bench; Boyle; Payne; Bush; Circuit Court of Appeals;