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Maywood Confidential
On the evening of Oct. 23, 2006, as a premature snow fell in parts of the Chicago area, Maywood (Illinois) Police Officer Tom Wood pulled his marked SUV to a dimly lit corner known for drug sales, rolled down his window part of the way and began talking to somebody, likely a person he knew. Within minutes gunfire exploded from the street, ripping through the car and hitting Officer Wood in the head and elsewhere, killing the 37-year-old father of five almost instantly. More than six years later, the murder is still unsolved, and an eerie pall has been cast over the official investigation, and Maywood itself. The nonprofit Better Government Association (BGA) and WFLD-TV/FOX Chicago set out to determine what happened – why Officer Wood was killed and why the official investigation into his death had failed to produce an arrest or criminal charges. In a figurative sense, our findings (which form the basis for our entry) indict not a person, but a culture of corruption and apathy in Maywood that may have contributed to Officer Wood’s death, and certainly played a role in the subsequently botched homicide probe.
Tags: Murder; police officer; corruption; homicide
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The Trouble with Frank
The Fortune Magazine investigates the business of Frank Quattrone, "the top investment banker in Silicon Valley", whose firm has become "exhibit A in a probe of shady IPO deals." The story describes how Quattrone "came to personify ... the wildly speculative Internet bubble." The authors reveal that Quattrone's actions have involved Deutsche Morgan Grenfell and Credit Suise First Boston into risky operations. The story sheds light on the federal investigations of six East Coast sales and trading officials facing "charges for taking inflated commissions - essentially kickbacks - in exchange for doling out hot tech IPO shares in 1999 and 2000."
Tags: Deutsche Morgan Grenfell; Credit Suisse First Boston; securities; equity; Securities and Exchange Commission; Michael Milken; Wall Street
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Superintendent for Sale
"Longtime state schools superintendent misused thousands of dollars in public and private funds. (The) superintendent made more than 1,700 personal phone calls on a state-issued credit cars. He accepted more than $99,000 from a nonprofit organizations whose contributors included some ofof the largest corporations in the states. ... He billed the state for such items as chartered plane flights and accepted free trips and hotel rooms from numerous corporations."
Tags: state government; travel; conflict of interest; nonprofit; education; grand jury investigation; misuse of funds; expense account; telephone calling card and private office phone recors; expense reimbursement forms; closed door meetings; FBI probe; reverse directory look-up; FOIA
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SEC Probe Focuses on Asian Revenues of Belgian Tech Firm
The WSJ repots on an investigation by Securities and Exchange Commission into a sudden and massive sales increase at Belgian software maker Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products NV. The probe focuses on the recent sales increase in Asia. The reporters find out that nearly all of L&H's revenue in Singapore has come from 19 companies, most of which were launched a year ago. Also, L&H helped create those start-ups.
Tags: L&H; SEC probe; Lernout & Hauspie; sales probe; speech-recognition software
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Military's lax security putting weapons on the streets
This story documents the General Accounting Office's probes of lax security at military bases, which lead to theft and sales of the military's weapons, including missiles and explosives, on the street.
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Writers Wronged: The Real Story of James W. Peebles and Winston Derek Publishing
Nashville Scene Magazine looks at Winston-Derek Publishing, a minority-owned firm that has been subject to all sorts of media reports. The company's founder and president, James W. Peebles, is accused of taking writers' money and then refusing to honor their cooperative publishing contracts. Also includes history of Peebles, all of which includes allegatiions of sexual harrassment and fraud.
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New York Times provides the first detailed report of the Abscam probe, in which the FBI investigated high-ranking public officials and the sale of influence in Congress, Feb. 3, 1980.