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Left for Dead
A woman who “allegedly hoarded and killed more than a dozen dogs at her animal rescue” was never convicted for the crime. Her court date was postponed for a number of times and now she can’t be found as she runs from the law. Many people donated money to her rescue initiative and families donated their pets for her to find good homes for, but later found out about their help was a waste.
Tags: Eastern Iowa; Waggin' Tails; Michele Kintzer; sheriff; law enforcement; police; state officials; Hardin County; evidence
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Crossing the Line
The lieutenant of the Lake Oswego Police Department had been forced to leave his job many years earlier after an investigation revealed he had attempted to rape a woman while on duty. Though he had lost his job, he still found his current position with the Lake Oswego Police Department with the help of two of his high up friends. This series takes a look at the charges against him and the actions of the officers and government officials who defended him.
Tags: Lake Oswego; Oregon; police department; Darryl Wrisley; lieutenant; police officer; state department
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"Wombs for Rent"
The U.S. is one of the only developed countries that allows surrogacy, though the laws differ across the states. Taking an in-depth look into the world of commercial surrogacy, Habiba Nosheen and Hilke Schellmann find the current system leaves a lot of room for "deceit and fraud." They follow one woman through the surrogacy process and reveal a number of problems, including health insurance fraud.
Tags: surrogacy; SurroGenesis; Tonya Collina; Sarah Jessica Parker
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"South Carolina Governor"
After news broke of South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford's affair with a woman living in Argentina, the AP immediately started investigating his travel habits. They found the governor often neglected to record flights to visit his mistress as "taxable benefits" and also ignored state rules and regulations by traveling extravagantly.
Tags: Mark Sanford; affair; Argentina; Jenny Sanford; Maria Belen Chapur; soul mate
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Dying in Cell 40
Ashley Ellis, a 23-year-old Vermont woman was put in prison for a misdemeanor traffic violation. Under the private company Prison Health Services' care, she died when access to her medication was denied. "Dying in Cell 40" explores how the relationship between the state and for-profit contractors creates a flawed system where death is inevitable.
Tags: Prison Health Services; Vermont; Ashley Ellis; medication; private contractors; state; prison; cell 40;
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Home Health Hustler
This investigation exposed a woman using multiple identities to set up and operate fraudulent home health care businesses and bill the government. Their investigation found Irene Anderson, also known as Iya Edwards, was in the country illegally and ordered deported nearly twenty years previous, yet she was able to establish numerous home health care agencies and collect millions of dollars in government money. She received Medicare payments for patients who would not typically qualify for home care coverage and for patients who received no home health care at all. This story exposed lapses in federal healthcare and legal systems as well as in the state regulatory system home health care providers. The news team found several ex-employees who had reported fraud and abuse to the state, but nothing had been done. In fact, the Texas Department of Aging and Disability Services claimed it conducted an investigation and found nothing, clearing the way for Anderson to continue to fraudulently bill the federal government. The investigation triggered an arrest, a federal raid, criminal charges, repayment of millions of tax dollars and promises of legislative change.
Tags: Texas; home health care; fraud; Medicare fraud; public records
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Botched Sting
This story exposed how local Florida police cost a young woman her life by manipulating her into working an undercover sting, then botching the operation. Rachel Hoffman was a typical American college student who was also twice arrested for possession of small amounts of marijuana. Scared and facing jail time, Rachel agreed to be a police informant. Police told here that no charges would be filed, that prosecutors would never know and that they would protect her. Only after her death, and following this investigation, did the police admit that their recruitment of Rachel Hoffman violated their own policies.
Tags: undercover police work; recuritment; police informant; drugs; drug dealers; wrongful death
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The Evidence Gap
The nations' medical bill last year exceeded $2.7 trillin -- nearly as much as the projected total cost of the Iraq war. If it were medical money well spend, there might be few cries to "reform" the American health care system. But by some estimates, one-third or more of the medical care received by patients in this country may be virtually worthless. The nation is wasting hundreds of billions of dollars each year on superfluous treatments -- money that otherwise could by spent, for example , on providing health insurance for every child, woman and man int his country who currently have no coverage. A team of science and business reporters from The New York Times set out to explain how and why the United States is spending so much on health care with so relatively little to show for the money, They discovered a gaping chasm between scientific evidence and the practice of medicine. In an in-depth series of articles, told through real doctors and patients, and based on information they dug up that was frequently unflattering to medical providers, companies and regulators, the Times team documented many disturbing instances of "The Evidence Gap."
Tags: health care; CT angiograms; Avastin; cancer treatment; reckless spending; Food and Drug Administration; mammograms
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Mental Anguish
A girl had her arm broken and was left untreated for days. A suicidal man was allowed to stay behind a closed door in his room where he committed suicide. A young woman who tried to strangle herself with one of her shoelaces was allowed to keep the other lace. These incidents all occurred at the psychiatric facility, West Oaks Hospital. Margaret Downing investigated the facility and found that patients were not being monitored properly because of cost-cutting measures.
Tags: hospital; misuse of funds; patient abuse; negligence; psychiatrics; suicide
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Fatal Boat Crash: Wrong man charged?
When the Chief Deputy Sheriff of the Lake County Sheriff's Office was driving a speed boat it collided into a sailboat, killing a woman. However, it was the man driving the sailboat that was charged with manslaughter. ABC 7's investigation found that investigators were not taking statements from witnesses critical of the deputy and judges were not excusing themselves from the case, despite personal relationship with him.
Tags: police department; manslaughter; criminal justice; judge; witness testimony;