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You Paid For It/Pensions

"The Tampa Police and Firefighters Pension fund is a taxpayer supported retirement program. WFTS discovered Tampa's fund is extremely generous in granting disability retirements compared with other cities. The investigation […]
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To Serve & Collect

State law enforcement employees have one of the most generous retirement packages in the nation. But local pension plans make the state look parsimonious by comparison. These retirement packages were […]
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Predators among us

Primetime Live originally began investigating a man charged with killing and cannibalizing a boy, doing follow-up they discovered that the institution in Massachusetts that he had been released from had […]
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The God Biz

Penthouse finds that television evangelists are extracting billions of dollars a year from naive Christians; chronicles case after case of people being swindled out of life savings and disability payments. […]
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Beauty and the breast: the implant controversy continues

The investigation found that Mentor, one of the two biggest companies in implant business may have knowingly allowed faulty breast implants onto the market, forcing women in both countries to […]
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How the VA Abandons Our Vets

Sgt. Juan Jimenez was struck by a roadside bomb in Baghdad, and in need of immediate care, he sought disability benefits from the VA. He then learned of a bizarre […]
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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 […]
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How The VA Abandons Our Vets: Denying care, delaying benefits, deceiving the public

The investigation uncovered unethical and criminal behavior by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs' top brass. It tells the story of Sgt. Juan Jimenez, who was struck by a roadside […]
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Sick drivers causing fatal wrecks

The story (and follow-up pieces) exmined the issue of dangerous sick drivers who fill U.S. highways. The July 21 story found that hundreds of thousands of drivers carry commercial licenses […]
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Battling the VA

Adams discusses the approach to covering the Veterans Administration - both as a health system and a disability compensation system. He addresses the challenges of making FOIA requests of the […]
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