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The Subprime Wolves Are Back
Consumer advocates revealed in interviews that some mortgage lenders and brokers have reinvented themselves as FHA-backed lenders to feed off of the consumer panic following the national financial bailout.
Tags: fraud; Wall Street; paper trail; bankruptcy filing; Federal Housing Administration; stimulus package;
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Reporting series on Abu Ghraib
This investigative series on the Abu Ghraib prison scandal reveals that the Bush administration knew about the interrogation methods being used. Breaking all rules of the Geneva Convention, the Bush administration had declared as soon as the war on Iraq started that the conventions were not going to be adhered to. Backed by a paper trail of documents from the White House, these journalists revealed that the military personnel higher in the ranks, and not just the MP's were involved.
Tags: Abu Ghraib; Geneva Conventions; Bush; George W Bush; White House; White House sources; military; US military; torture during war; war crimes
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Times Reporter Who Resigned Leaves Long Trail of Deception
This report by the New York Times unveils the lies and embellished stories written by one of its own staff reporters, Jayson Blair. In the now-infamous story, Blair admitted to falsifying information from sources, making up quotes from people he never interviewed, and even inventing sources. The paper says that Blair's acts of "journalistic fraud" jepardized the credibility of the entire news organization.
Tags: fraud; embellishment; New York Times Company; plagiarism
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Taken for a ride
WFLA-TV investigates odometer tampering in Florida. The investigation started when the reporting team pursued a case that officials had basically ignored after the dealer agreed to repurchase the vehicle. The stories expose the fraudulent practices of a local car dealer whose scheme was to illegally rollback cars' odometers 100,000 miles and sell them to unwitting customers. "The paper trail gathered in this investigative project eventually leads to the arrest of two suspects on 13 criminal charges of odometer tampering, fraud and grand theft," reporter Mark Douglas points out.
Tags: TAPE; TRANSCRIPT; car dealers; auction sales; forgery; car titles; consumer affairs; insurance; VIN
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Sins of the mother
This story tells the detailed story of Sante Kimes and her son Kenneth's "coast-to-coast trail of alleged arson, fraud theft and multiple homicide," and how the mother and son team turned into "one of the most wanted criminals in America."
Tags: crime; fraud; paper trails; backgrounding
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Animal Underworld
"Animal Underworld is an expose of the burgeoning domestic trade in exotic species. The book examines all facets of the exotic-animal 'industry,' focusing in particular on the 'laundering' of unwanted zoo and research castoffs as they are sold and resold until paper trails go cold. Animal Underworld exposes the elaborate shell game of animal brokering that secretly shunts rare - even endangered - species off to auction barns, private hunting preserves, roadside attractions and basement cages. The book demonstrates how institutions and individuals heralded for their commitment to conservation, including some of the nation's most respected zoos, are in many instances interested more in profits than in preservation of the species..."
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The doctor's office
WFTS investigates a doctor who had gotten away with sexually abusing his patients for years. The report uncovers a paper trail demonstrating several state agencies were well aware of the doctor's record and had done nothing.
Tags: TAPE Medical Board
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No title (id: 10698)
California Zephyr describes the secret relocation of American POW's from Vietnam to the United States. Paper trail and computer data show POW's and captives were given new identities and medical care at U.S. Airforce and Veteran's Administration hospitals. The article links the secret relocation to the normalization of relations between the U.S. and Vietnam, 1994.
Tags: CA Rogers CAJ Military POW's Returned Secretly From Vietnam; 17 pgs.
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No title (id: 9420)
New York Times reports on the paper trail that Federal securities regulators must follow as they try to trace over $400 million raised by a New York businessman through the public sale of Towers Financial Corporation bonds and notes over a five-year period; those sales have become the target of a civil fraud suit filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission, March 9, 1992. * NY Henriques
Tags: None
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No title (id: 1157)
Buffalo News exposes a con man who promised financially troubled Buffalo an aluminum plant he could not build; reporters uncover a paper trail of similar scams that left hundreds of thousands of dollars in unpaid bills and netted him a half million dollars, May 12, 1986.
Tags: NY Jerome Hoffman