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"No Reciprocity: Canadian Hit and Run"
In Everett, a vehicle with British Columbia plates struck a young boy and fled the scene, driving across the border back into Canada. Upon realizing the driver was Canadian, U.S. investigators dropped the case and did not ticket the man. An investigation by KIRO-TV finds that it is common for tickets issued to B.C. residents to remain unpaid without consequence because of the lack of a "reciprocity agreement" between Washington and British Columbia.
Tags: British Columbia; Canada; Regional Border Patrol; Everett Mall Way; Everett Police; Keith Leary; Washington Department of Licensing
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Hit Man
Texas Monthly reports on the undercover murder-for-hire investigations of Gary Johnson, a Houston psychology teacher who works for the cops. The story reveals the techniques used by Johnson to convince people that he is an experienced professional killer and "their one best hope for a better life." The article follows Johnson's start and development in his career as an investigator. "Although the professional hit man is a staple of detective fiction, no one is really certain if there is someone in this country who makes a living as a hired gun," reports the magazine.
Tags: police; murder; felony; detectives; psychology; marriage; divorces; arrests; law enforcement
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A Royal Fall: When Eagan-based Royal Conservatories hit financial trouble, the owners pinned their hopes on a man they thought was a seasoned executive. But his resume - and even his name - turned out to be a lie.
Moore explains how ex-convict Charles Suntheimer, a.k.a. Charles Schuler, brought the small company he was hired to turn around to bankruptcy. Among other lies, Suntheimer told his employers at Royal Conservatories that he was a medical doctor with an additional PhD from Harvard, and a participant in the FBI's witness protection program. "The company had hired Schuler even though few of his references checked out." Royal Conservatories fired him in May 2000 after his background was revealed, but it was too late to revive the company. When the company filed for bankruptcy in October 2000, it had $42,503 in assets and $1.5 million in liabilities. The story of the company's demise illustrates how "hiring an unknown quantity can prove to be fatal -- especially for a struggling small business where internal controls are lax and the need to resuscitate the company immediate."
Tags: business fraud; Charles Suntheimer; Association of Certified Fraud Examiners; Royal Conservatories
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"Mobster reveals life in Valley" and "Crime ring witnesses being killed"
The Arizona Republic reports "two stories on organized crime. The first involves Mafia enforcer Salvatore "Sammy the Bull" Gravano, who had moved to Arizona and launched a secret life. The second story is about a Mexican Mafia syndicate headed by the Cisneros brothers, who escaped prosecution due to the murders of government witnesses."
Tags: FOIA; Department of Motor Vehicles; DMV; Registrar of Contractors; Office State Corporation Commission; unsolved homicide; FBI Federal Bureau of Investigations; Salvatore Gravano; New York Mob; John Gotti; hit man; La Cosa Nostra; Witness Protection Program
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1999 IRE National Conference Show and Tell Tape #8
1999 IRE National Conference (Kansas City) Show and Tell Tape #8 is the eighth of a nine-part series. This tape includes: 1.) Diane Charles (WDIV-Detroit) Water drainage system causes high erosion, leaving houses on the brink of a cliff. County refuses to fix the problem...even though the erosion was predicted 30 years earlier. 2.) Mark Lagerkvist (News 12 - Long Island) Questionable campaign finance contributions. Starts at race track and continues horse analogy throughout. 3.) Deborah Sherman (WFXT - Boston Fox) Costa Rican trips for child sex. Actually spoke with girls who used to get paid by American tourists for sex. Focuses on one area man charged with this crime. 4.) Jennifer Krause (WTVF-Nashville) Feed the Children rip-off. employees taking home thousands of food items and boxes filled with clothes that were supposed to go to the needy. 5.) Miguel Sancho (Inside Edition) Carnival cruise ship come-ons. Staff on these cruise ships hitting on passengers and even having sex with them, sometimes consensual. Against policy to interact with passengers this way. Hidden camera of crew coming on to Inside Edition interns. 6.) Rich Fuentes (KVBC-Las Vegas) Safety test of cheaper, replacement after-market auto parts covered by most insurance companies instead of parts made by original car manufacturers. Not as safe and will cost more in the end. 7.) Phil Archer (KPRC-Houston) Employees steal and take home items donated to a local shelter. 8.) Deb Fountain (KSTP-Minneapolis) Another herbal supplement piece focusing on the dangerous ingredients in some products. Metabolife comes up again as a problematic substance known for causing high blood pressure.
Tags: TAPE; Kansas City; conference; no transcripts; IRE
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Neal Horsley and the Future of the Armed Abortion Conflict
Esquire Magazine tells the story of Neal Horsley, "the righteous man with the hit list rocks on the front porch of his glass house... his Web site, which is called The Nuremberg Files: Visualize the Abortionists on Trial. On the Web site he collects the names, addresses, and photos of hundreds of doctors across America who perform abortions. Also supplied are pictures of the doctors' houses and cars, license-plate numbers, names and dates of birth of their children, churches and pastors and rabbis, social-activity information and career profiles, as in "Has been butchering babies for sixteen years." Neal smiles broadly and bellows, 'I would not want to be in the business of abortin' babies in the United States of America today!'"
Tags: Domestic terrorism
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No title (id: 13250)
This article dicusses organized crime in Philidelphia and details the participants lifestyles and methods of crime. It also includes part of the testimony of hit man John Veasey at John Stanfa's trial.
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New York Post tells the detailed story of how a woman tried to hire a hit man to kill her ex-husband over an insurance policy, and how she ended up with an undercover police officer instead; three other cases mentioned in "How not to hire a hit man," March 5, 1989.
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Ex-hit man breaks code of silence
Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch runs articles on a Mafia hitman who testified under the witness protection program.
Tags: Mafia; hitman; witness protection program; Virginia; Charlie Allen