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National Security Letters: In Hunt for Terrorists, Bureau Examines Records of Ordinary Americans
"National Security Letters," which empower the FBI to make secret demands for personal records, are being used more often and extend the bureau's reach into the telephone calls, correspondence and financial lives of ordinary Americans. Because of the Patriot Act and the Bush administration's broad interpretation of its powers, the FBI now makes more than 30,000 such demands a year.
Tags: Patriot Act; National Security Letters; Bush Administration; FBI; FOIA; private affairs; public safety
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"Cashing In"
This Dateline hidden camera investigation revealed that companies which sell privately owned ATM machines perform few, if any, background checks on the people who buy the machines. As a result, crooks have been able to buy their own ATM machines and rig them to copy the account information and personal identification numbers off of unsuspecting users. The crooks then use the information to make bogus ATM cards and withdraw money out of the users' accounts.
Tags: ATMs; automatic teller machines; consumer affairs; banking
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First. tell no one
This series are an investigation into how the state's medical licensing and discipline agency works in tandem with the private Medical Society of New Jersey to keep impaired and incompetent doctors in practice, and much of their history secret.
Tags: corruption; Consumer Affairs; drug abuse; alcohol abuse; discipline; Board of Medical Examiners; doctors; medical malpractice; CAR
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In Harm's Way: Inside VA Hospitals
The Cleveland Plain Dealer investigates veterans affairs hospitals nationwide. The series reveals that VA hospitals allow residents to treat or operate patients with the attending doctor available over phone. This way salaried VA doctors can use this arrangement to treat better paying private patients while on the VA clock.
Tags: Cleveland Plain Dealer; veterans affairs hospitals; VA hospitals; doctors; residents; medical care
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Never Let Go
Phil Burton, a 22-year veteran investigator with D.C.'s Metropolitan Police Department, was forced from his job in October 1997. But for more than three years since then, he has continued to pursue convictions for his last major corruption case: For more than a decade, city plumbers from the Water and Sewer Authority were "taking bribes in exchange for performing private side jobs during their regular work hours." Over that time, "crews had been bilking the city out of an estimated $1 million a year in lost revenue, stolen equipment, torn-up streets, and overtime abuses." But after an extensive investigation, Burton had no luck convincing the MPD or the U.S. Attorney's Office to prosecute the alleged racketeers. "By the end of 1999, only 11 out of some 30 city workers he believed were guilty had been prosecuted. Although it was the biggest investigation in the IAD's recent history, Burton insists that it's only partially complete." Today, Burton keeps 30 boxes worth of paperwork at his home. He keeps them around in the hopes that somebody will prosecute the remaining suspects before the statute of limitations expires, in one year.
Tags: Phil Burton; Metropolitan Police Department; internal affairs; WASA; U. S. Attorney's Office; Water and Sewer Authority
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Deadbird
"The story examined several factors- political pressures, mismanagement, wrongdoing, and a lack of government oversight- behind the poor performance of a private company, Redbird Development Corp., that managed facilities at a city-owned general aviation airport in Dallas. It found that racial politics played a role in the award of a major city contract to a company run by a man who at the time was in personal bankruptcy. It showed how lower-level city officials documented years of poor performance by the company, reports that were ignored at upper levels of city government. It also probed allegations of corruption and the company's tangled corporate history, and proved that a man with a history of bank embezzlement and fraud owned at least a minority stake in the business and had tremendous influence over its affairs. It suggested- but could not prove beyond question- that he was the majority owner."
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The Neulander murder
Carol Neulander, a mother of three and the owner of two popular bakeries, was bludgeoned to death in her Cherry Hill, N.J. home...her husband, a popular local rabbi, was a suspect in the murder. Police theorized that Rabbi Fred J. Neulander hired someone to kill his wife so he could continue an affair with a local radio personality without getting a divorce and risking the loss of his congregation." Reporter Nancy Phillips "spent hours talking abut the case" with Len Jenoff, a private investigator hired by the rabbi to investigate the death and learned that Jenoff and an accomplice had committed the murders at the rabbi's bidding.
Tags: rabbi; murder; private investigator; affair; adultery; murder-for-hire; Central Conference of American Rabbis; Autotrak; Camden County; New Jersey
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LBO Madness
During 1996 and 1997, over $70 billion was poured into so-called leveraged buyout and private equity investments. These popular investments advertised returns of 50 to 100 percent. Forbes Magazine investigates this unregulated business, its exorbitant fees and reveals that the core calculation "internal rate of return" was a bogus statistic.
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The political left and right -- both Hillary Clinton and Newt Gingrich -- suggest that private philanthropy can help replace the federal funding cut by recent welfare reform legislation. For two and one-half years, New Times followed one such instance of voluntarism. The result is an in-depth chronicle of Esther Gould's attempts to rescue one at-risk child in Phoenix. The boy was helped -- but two families were very nearly destroyed by the well-meaning efforts of this well-to-do professional. (December 26, 1996)