The IRE Resource Center is a major research library containing more than 23,250 investigative stories — both print and broadcast. Add to that more than 3,000 tipsheets from our national conferences on how to cover specific beats or do specific stories and you have a resource that no reporter or editor should be without. These stories and tipsheets are searchable online or by contacting the Resource Center directly (573-882-3364 or rescntr@ire.org) where a researcher can help you pinpoint what you need. Browse or search the tipsheet section of our library below. Logged-in members can view the tipsheets free online:
Search results for "Fraud" ...
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Waste investigations for any community
Get tips on how to investigate government in terms of who gets audited, what data sets are available and see how that information can lead to local news stories.
Tags: Government; government agencies; fraud; investigation;
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Uncovering Waste and Fraud in Local Government and Public Authorities
7 easy steps to "Uncovering Waste and Fraud in Local Government and Public Authorities". Donohue provides step by step tips for you to uncover the truth.
Tags: local government; fraud; economic waste
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Ivory tower inspections: Holding higher education's complex bureaucracies accountable
Gabrielson discusses the challenges of deciphering the world if higher education. He suggests ways of demystifying the institutions if you're covering higher education; who to know to get the information/data you need; reading internal control audits to better understand university finances; and map the university's income sources.
Tags: education; higher education; college; university; administration; students; academic fraud; audit; tuition
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Borrowers Betrayed: Covering Business as a Crime Scene
This tipsheet details how a computer-assisted reporting investigation into toxic home loans turned into a crime story when in-depth analysis showed 10,000 people with criminal histories had been licensed as mortgage professionals.
Tags: mortgage; subprime; toxic loans; Florida; criminal justice; shoe-leather reporting; fraud; real estate; brokerage; stolen identity
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Uncovering Financial Traps
Tiernen addresses the financial traps that are arising the the second wave of the financial crisis. He includes information on such traps as: foreclosure services; debt settlement; subprime credit cards; payday loans; uninsured overseas savings accounts; reverse mortgages and much more.
Tags: foreclosure services; debt settlement; subprime credit cards; payday loans; uninsured overseas savings accounts; reverse mortgages; consumer credit; consumer affairs; consumer fraud
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Forensic Accounting
This tipsheet discusses forensic accounting with definitions and examples of how it can be used in investigative reporting - from clarifying issues (such as Ponzi schemes); insights into what to investigate (such as various cases of misused funds); and many others.
Tags: forensic accounting; Ponzi scheme; finance; fraud; charities; corporations; Pyramid scheme; mortgage fraud; financial analysis; data mining; Federal Rules of Evidence; economic damages; insurance loss accounting
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Fraud: Uncovering Scandals
Maremont discusses how to approach investigations into fraud - from "archaeological stories" where the reporter digs into finding out what happens to new investigations. He touches upon how to generate story ideas; determining the best story in the information you have; and he offers several detailed example stories
Tags: investigations; fraud; beat reporting; research; tips; SEC;
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Health Care on the Beat
Wilson's tipsheet gives a number of links to various sites that could be helpful when covering the health care beat. Included are sites specifically related to: pharmaceuticals; health care fraud; federal leads for health care stories.
Tags: health care; pharmaceuticals; fraud; Federal Drug Administration; FDA; adverse events; False Claims Act;
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Investigations into Health Care
Schulte offers a list of websites that can "help reportres understand complex health care fraud and abuse issues or get information on doctors and the health care industry."
Tags: internet research; web sources; health care; beat reporting; hospitals
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Investigating Fraud: Schemes, Scondrels and Scams
The authors discuss how to uncover and report on fraud. The tipsheet offers suggestions for documenting fraud, such as finding a paper trail or videotaping the scheme. Then, the tipsheet discusses how to turn your findings into a well-organized, effective investigative piece. Finally, the tipsheet includes useful websites for finding court records, consumer information, corporations, property records, regulators and more.
Tags: internet sources; undercover investigations; visual story-telling; story ideas; consumer investigations; crime; fraud