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Jim West: A Spokesman-Review Investigative Report
From his days as a Boy Scout leader to sheriff's deputy in the 1970s, through his career in the Washington legislature in the 1980s and 1990s, until becoming mayor of Spokane in January 2004, Jim West abused his positions of trust. The investigation showed that West had sexually molested boys as a sheriff's deputy and Boy Scouts leader, that as a secretly gay Republican state legislator he pushed anti-gay legislation and that as mayor of Spokane he offered City Hall jobs and appointments to teenagers and young men he met on a gay web site.
Tags: FOIA; sexual molestation; sexual abuse; Spokane; City Hall; Jim West; Boy Scouts of America; Washington State Legislature; homosexual; Spokane County Sheriff's Department
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Small-Town Election, Big-Time Trouble
The stories chronicled election fraud in two small communities. In the first community, one candidate's mother headed up the registrar's office, while in the other community, Gate City, the mayor manipulated the absentee voting system to his advantage, sometimes filling the forms of elderly absentee voters himself.
Tags: election fraud; absentee voting; voter registration; Roanoke; Scott County; Gate City; Willie Mae Kilgore; Charles Dougherty; Jerry Kilgore; Terry Kilgore; State Board of Elections; campaign donations; Republican Party
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TRMPAC
The series of stories explores the effect of the Republican sweep in 2002 of the Texas state government and the controversy behind the funding that got them there. This three year investigation was part of Tom DeLay's downfall, and led criminal investigations and civil lawsuits against the state's largest business organization.
Tags: Tom DeLay; campaign finance; Texas; Republican; Texas GOP; state government
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The Pimping of the Presidency
This story details the Washington scandal of Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff using access to George W. Bush to swing Indian gaming money to Grover Norquist. According to the investigation, Abramoff essentially "sold access" to the White House to the Alabama Coushatta nation.
Tags: Jack Abramoff; Indian gaming; FOIA; tribal council; Alabama Coushatta Nation; Bush administration
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On the City's Tab
The Fresno Bee's Davis did a detailed examination of the mayor of Fresno, California's expense account and found a lack of oversight, some double-billing and sometimes a stretching or disregarding of rules. Compared to past mayors, the current mayor Alan Autry, a republican, spends more and takes more liberties with his expense account. The same is true of some city council members, but to a lesser degree.
Tags: Expense accounts; public servants; city budget; malfeasance
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Networks of Influence
This investigation revealed the communication industry has spent $1.1 billion since 1998 to obtain political influence--more than twice a much as the oil and gas industry spent. Money spent on supporting candidates, lobbying, junkets and the practice of government officials leaving their jobs to work for the industries they used to regulate were all scrutinized. While broadcasters usually spent and equal amount of money supporting republicans and democrats, Sinclair Broadcasting Group spent more than 95% on republicans only. Detailed graphs included make the story easy to understand.
Tags: On-line; FCC; Federal Communications Commission; telecommunications; broadcast; political influence; lobby; television; radio; junket; Telecommunications Act of 1996; General Electric; Sinclair; Time Warner
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Politics and Punishment on Rikers Island
An investigation that took a year and a half revealed that New York City Correction Department employees were forced to work on Republican political campaigns. In the 1990's, correction officials supporting Republicans were awarded with promotions and better assignments. On the other hand, any employee working for Democrats got 'whacked', or sent to dangerous jobs or forces to retire. As a result to this investigation, the main perpetrator was indicted on 146 counts of grand larceny and violating conflicts of interest laws.
Tags: New York City Correction Department; jail; warden; political campaign; republicans; democrats; threats
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The Masterpiece Mystery
This ABC News investigation looks into the 1990 robbery of dozens of paintings from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. William Youngworth III, the key suspect in the investigation, held a press conference in 1997 and said he knew the whereabouts of the works, but then refused to say anything else. ABC News, the FBI and the museum have been investigating the case ever since, and this report brings together all of their findings, along with the possible connection of the Irish Republican Army to the case.
Tags: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum; William Youngworth III; Art; Museums; Irish Republican Army; IRA
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Money and Politics
A year-long investigation into the role of Tennessee campaign contributions in Tennessee politics, and how candidates used these contribution funds. The Times found that candidates filed inaccurate disclosure reports and that there was little to no examination of the documents. They also took a look at Tennessee money in federal elections, and found that local races were not competitive, and that Republicans in particular were funneling contributions to out-of-state candidates.
Tags: campaign finance; campaign contributions; campaign loans; inaccurate disclosure reports; federal elections; state elections; campaign financial filings; questionable campaign practices
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Corporate money in Texas elections
This series of stories exposes how Republican leaders and business interests in Texas used secret corporate donations to help finance the campaigns of Republicans who ultimately assumed control of the state Legislature. A state law prohibits corporate money from being spent on campaign activity. Following the newspaper's initial investigation, three associates of U.S. House Majority Leader Tom Delay of Texas and eight corporations were indicted by a grand jury.
Tags: campaign finance laws; Texans for a Republican Majority; corporate influence; computer-assisted reporting