The IRE Resource Center is a major research library containing more than 23,250 investigative stories — both print and broadcast. These stories are searchable online or by contacting the Resource Center directly (573-882-3364 or rescntr@ire.org) where a researcher can help you pinpoint what you need. Browse or search the tipsheet section of our library below. Stories are not available for download but can be easily ordered by contacting the Resource Center:
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IPOs: a Rigged Game
A Bloomberg News investigation details "how Wall Street has rigged the $50-billion-a-year initial public offering (IPO) business, favoring powerful and well-connected money managers at the expense of legions of small investors." The series shed light on "who was benefiting from the steep stock rises." The reports include "a rare behind-the scene examination into the multi-million-dollar business of raising money for U.S. corporations," as they reveal how the system provides "a select group of underwriters, brokers and investors with an opportunity to capture enormous profits." The investigation also documents how "company executives profit from IPOs - often at the expense of their own companies."
Tags: TAPE; DISKETTE; SEC; investment banks; attorneys; mutual funds; commissions; CEOs; venture capital; shares; equity
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Crashing For Cash
A Sun-Sentinel series explores the dimensions of auto-insurance fraud in Florida. The investigation finds that "phony crash rings ... operate throughout the state." The stories showcase the main players and their scenarios, and concludes that "even when they are caught, most avoid prison time." A key finding is also that "chiropractors and medical clinics that specialize in traffic accident injuries routinely have paid cash for new patients...and have submitted phony or padded billings to auto insurers. " Lawyers and testing brokers are also exposed as participants in the vicious circle. The reporters reveal that the state officials in charge are reluctant to handle the problem. For example, "Florida's Division of Insurance Fraud ... actually closes more than 90 percent of its investigations without an arrest," and "the state's Board of Chiropractic Medicine routinely permits chiropractors convicted of insurance fraud to continue practicing..."
Tags: auto insurance; traffic accidents; claims; chiropractors; pain clinics; corruption; crime; Florida's Division of Insurance Fraud; doctors; diskette included
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The Devil's Chair
The Progressive "investigated the restraint chair, a popular restraining device used in jails and prisons" and "revealed that at least eleven people have died since 1984 after being placed in restraint chairs..." The story "revealed widespread abuse - including torture - of prisoners in the chairs." Some of the major findings included the use of chair "for punishment of nonthreatening behavior" and cases when "prisoners have been interrogated" or "required to testify while in restraint chairs." The reporter also found that "jails, state and federal prisons, the Immigration and Naturalization Service, the U.S. Marshals Service, state mental hospitals, juvenile detention centers are all equipped with the chair."
Tags: diskette; FOIA; Amnesty International; prisons; torture