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Show & Tell: IRE 2001 National Conference (Chicago)
Compilation tape of investigative stories presented at the 2001 IRE national conference in Chicago: Tape 1 1.) KVBC-TV (Nevada) - "Honor Thy Father" 2.) KHOU 11 (Houston) - "Highway Health Hazard" 3.) Inside Edition - "Drink Up" 4.) KOAA-TV (Colorado Springs) - "Mother Goose daycare investigation" 5.) WSTN-TV (Syracuse) - "Pipeline to Crack" 6.) WAGA-TV (Atlanta) - "On the net; on the clock" 7.) KSAZ-TV (Phoenix) - "Capital Credit" 8.) Inside Edition - "Televangelists" 9.) WJW (Fox 8 Cleveland) - "Coats for Kids" 10.)Kelo-TV (Sioux Falls) - "Painful Steps" 11.) WNBC-TV (New York) - "Help on Hold" 12.) WFLD-TV (Chicago) - "Aggressive Drivers" 13.) WXYZ-TV (Detroit) - "Get Out Alive" 14.) WCPO-TV (Cincinnati) - "Airport Security" 15.) KMOL-TV (San Antonio) - "Slum Lords" 16.) WDIV-TV (Detroit) - "Stealing Power" 17.) WSMV 4 (Nashville) - "A few deadly breaths" 18.) WTVF (Nashville) - "Who's Policing the Police?" 19.) KDFW (Dallas) - "Spot Delivery" 20.) WTVJ (Miami) - "The Price of Beauty" 21.) WXYZ-TV (Detroit) - "Weight Loss Scams" 22.)KETV (Omaha) - "Police Complaints" 23.) KDFW (Dallas) - "Identity Theft" Tape 2 1.) WABC-TV (New York) - "Caught Off Guard" 2.) WTMJ-TV (Milwaukee) - "Get out of jail free" 3.) KTVT-TV (Fort Worth) - "INS Application Scam" 4.) KRON-TV (San Francisco) - "Moving Violations" 5.) WSPA-TV (South Carolina) - "Goodwill Firings" 6.) KWTV 9 (Oklahoma City) - "Lemon on the Lot" 7.) WLOS-TV (Asheville) - "Save or Slaughter" 8.) WISH-TV (Indianapolis) - "Tipped off" 9.) WAMI-TV (Miami) - "AIDS Charity Scam" 10.) WITI-TV (Milwaukee) - "Marine Corp Toxic Water" 11.) WFLD-TV (Chicago) - "No prescription, no doctor" 12.) XETV 6 (San Diego) - "Port Perks" 13.) KSTP-TV (St. Paul) - "Lasik Surgery" 14.) News 12 Long Island (Woodbury, N.Y.) - "Bad Medicine" 15.) News 12 Long Island (Woodbury, N.Y.) - "Double Dipping" 16.) KVBC-TV (Las Vegas) - "Mud Slinging Exposed" 17.) KVBC-TV (Las Vegas) - "What Lies Beneath" 18.) KHOU 11 (Houston) - "Sex Offender Teachers" 19.) KHOU 11 (Houston) - "Highway Health Hazard" 20.) WISH-TV (Indianapolis) - "Inspecting the Inspectors" 21.) WCPO 9 (Kentucky) - "NKU Rape Investigations"
Tags: TAPE
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Timothy Hayworth: A Victim's Story
This story explores the controversial circumstances behind of a high-profile, unsolved murder investigation of Timothy Hayworth, a Philadelphia businessman killed 26 years ago when he was on a business trip to Rochester, NY, as a consultant for Eastman Kodak. "Two suspects arrested and found guilty of the crime had their convictions overturned.... In both circumstances a judge found evidence was withheld from their original trials. In late 1999 the district attorney decided to retry the second suspect on the original murder charge...."
Tags: TAPE TRANSCRIPT police; subpoena Quaker American Friends Service Committee AFSC prostitution heroin transvestite
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1991 IRE TV Award Winners and Finalists Tape.
The 1991 IRE TV Award Winners and Finalists Tape is a compilation of 5 investigative stories. 1.) "Televangelists," Prime Time Live, ABC News investigates the business practices of three highly successful and prominent televangelists who capitalize on the beliefs of their followers and collect millions of dollars in tax-free donations each year; reveals phony faith healings and high-pressure money-making schemes. See #8402. 2.) "The Great American Bailout," PBS Frontline and The Center for Investigative Reporting San Francisco reports on the Resolution Trust Corporation and how it is ignoring the needs of low-income families in its bailout of the savings and loans program. See # 8259, 8260, 8261 and 8262. 3.) "Signed Sealed and Suckered," WDHD Boston uncovers rampant redlining of minority neighborhoods and a pattern of discrimination by home improvement contractors and second mortgage lenders, charging inflated prices for shoddy work and loan interest rates of 24 %. See # 8334. 4.) "Down the Drain," WKRN, Nashville looks at the city's water and sewer department and finds hundreds of thousands of dollars in rate payers' money wasted and "Good Ole' Boy" connections. See # 8231. 5.) "Trash Fraud in Onodaga County," WSTM, Syracuse N.Y. finds fraud within the trash hauling industry in Onondaga County, N.Y. The hauling company places weights in its trucks in order to cheat the system. See # 8171.
Tags: TAPE; ire; car; religion; telemarketing; legal discrimination; construction; garbage.
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No title (id: 10990)
Using hidden cameras, "20/20" unveils a business scam in which telemarketers pitch a pizza vending machine to prospective investors. Telemarketers encourage callers to satisfied customers who praise the products; these praise singers do not own the product, March 18, 1994.
Tags: TAPE; NY Stossel Greenberg Marvin Wolfe Fraud Entreprenuers
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No title (id: 10985)
Dateline NBC, in a three-part investigative series, details how government officials ignored warnings about deadly contamination of drinking water; the investigation found that officials failed to warn the public about the dangers. In Milwaukee, a parasite invaded the water system and led to over 400, 000 people getting sick, September 1994.
Tags: NY Phillips Shapiro Eckert Epidemic Public Health Cryptosporidium Waterborne Disease EPA CAR CAJ; TAPE; Script 40 pages
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No title (id: 10978)
Prime Time finds that reforms recommended six years ago are still not being enforced in medical laboratories. The investigation found that labs were pushing technicians to read pap smears too fast, with sometimes deadly consequences for women; most states are still not inspecting labs or checking on compliance, Sept. 1, 1994.
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No title (id: 10961)
Dateline NBC investigates widespread overcharging during the holiday season by major retail department stores using automatic check-out scanners. Dateline's hidden cameras show how items marked "on sale" rang up at the "regular" price during check-out. Approximately 17 percent of sale items scanned high in a nation-wide shopping spree, 1994.
Tags: NY Shapiro Phillips Eckert Gaffney Astengo Platt Rosenwasser CHA Retail Stores Over-charging Sale Items During the Holidays; 30 pgs.; tape
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No title (id: 10933)
The three-month Dateline investigation revealed what happens to some of the $25 billion a year the federal government spends to help people get jobs by going undercover to show how fragmented job training programs are an easy target for fraud and abuse. The Clinton administration is currently re-examining the effectiveness of such programs, April 26, 1994.
Tags: NY Ross Breslauer Unemployment Job training programs Transcript 12 pages tape
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No title (id: 10931)
"20/20" determined that there is a rising concern that some "rent-a-cops" may pose more of a danger to the apartment complexes and schools they are hired to protect than the criminals they are hired to deter. "20/20" went undercover to find out just how difficult it was for someone with a violent criminal history go get a job as a security officer.The investigation revealed that numerous companies do not do background checks and that violent criminals do, indeed, get hired as guards, March 11, 1994.
Tags: NY Jarriel Greenberg Rent-a-cops Violent criminals Transcript 4 pages tape
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No title (id: 10840)
ABC News investigates and explains the "Whitewater scandal" plaguing the political reputation of President Bill Clinton and First Lady Hillary Clinton. Both the President and his wife are suspected of using their respective positions while they were the first couple of Arkansas to safeguard or make money on their investments. The report questions those involved in real estate deals with the Clintons, reveals the true amount of money the Clintons lost, and the ramifications behind the death of Deputy White House Counsel Vincent Foster, 1994.
Tags: NY Barocci Frank Isham Jennings Oetgen Potter Smith Wooten CHA Clinton and the Arkansas Whitewater Scandal; tape; 11 pgs.