Agricultural quarantine inspection stumbles

By The Center for Public Integrity

Things have not gone smoothly for the Agricultural Quarantine Inspection program

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"… aff retention. The transition was “rife with turmoil,” John Jurich, an investigator for the House Committee on Agriculture, testified in 2007, adding that mor …"

The counterfeit cops

By Te-Ping Chen

Private investigators fight a hidden war against knock-off cigarettes, electronics, toothpaste, and more

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"… or India — unable or unwilling to quell the deluge, often it’s private investigators like Risheim who end up on the front lines. Today, at least 25,000 of the …"

"… s in China to boutique outfits set up by retired FBI agents, the number of investigators in the field has jumped fourfold since 1995, Chandler says.Hired as in-ho …"

"… ed as in-house employees by companies, or independent outside contractors, investigators conduct surveillance, collect evidence, and even assist with raids in doz …"

"… llance, and occasional death threats.In one particularly chilling case, an investigator in Fujian Province, China, had his arm macheted off by local cigarette cou …"

Watchdogs on short leashes

By Kenneth Vogel and Leah Rush

For most legislatures, ethics enforcement is an in-house affair; for the rest, agencies that oversee them are kept on a short leash

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"… companies in which his family had substantial economic interests.Grier, an investigator for the board remembered that "it was a pretty big deal.""There were peopl …"

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FCC plans to nix industry-paid travel

By John Dunbar

Agency chair seeks $500,000 increase in travel budget to "largely eliminate" industry perks

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"… (A version is available by going to www.openairwaves.org.)In addition, an investigator from the General Accounting Office—Congress's investigative arm—recent …"

Hake hoax in Spanish markets

By Mar Cabra, Marcos Garcia Rey and Kate Willson

The fish we buy is not always what the label says. Consumers are cheated in Spain and around the world.

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"… f mislabeling] is commercial fraud,” said Ricardo Pérez, DNA expert and investigator of the Spanish National Research Council. “In recent years there’s bee …"

The fraud squad

By Howard Goodman

South Florida leads the way in toxic real-estate

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"… hen the housing bubble was still expanding. "We had a couple of very smart investigators in economic crimes who'd both been real-estate agents, and they could see …"

"… eptember 2007 with a staff of five. A year and a half later, the unit's 19 investigators and supervisors have made almost 150 arrests. We're talking cases that ri …"

"… licker. "This is a crime that evolves," says Sergeant David Goldberger, an investigator with the Miami-Dade Mortgage Fraud Task Force.Example: Instead of the cond …"

"… ith the task force.The fraud is often connected with other types of crime, investigators say. Many schemes, for example, are tied to identity theft. Some of the s …"

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Government orders Columbia to tell patients 'true nature' of drug study

By Jeanne Lenzer and Shannon Brownlee

Officials say research may have caused harm to people who had heart surgery

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"… and for the hospital’s failure to contact patients even after federal investigators recommended it do so in 2003.The study, conducted between December 1999 a …"

"… eview board did insist that patients sign a written consent form. Columbia investigators later concluded that the consent form failed to inform patients of the ri …"

"… h also reviewed the proposed study. A surgeon on the review board told the investigators that the board’s members, 11 of whom had other full-time duties in the …"

"… nough time to probe. “When we do these reviews we are presented with the investigator’s stack of IRB stuff,” he said, according to the court papers. “Most …"

Deaths at ‘model workplaces’ missing from list of federal overseers

By Chris Hamby

OSHA unaware of some deaths at 'model workplaces'

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"… with air. The material leaked, and flames engulfed Mitchell.A federal OSHA investigator found that, had Eastman provided the proper protective suit — like one r …"

Panel recommends new agency to investigate safety of health information technology

By Kimberly Leonard

Institute of Medicine panel recommends new regulatory body, not FDA

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"… ociology at the University of Pennsylvania and its School of Medicine, and investigator for RAND Corporation. He is listed as one of the reviewers of the report.T …"

Filthy surgical instruments: The hidden threat in America's operating rooms

By Joe Eaton

How contaminated medical devices expose patients to infection

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"… geries while hospital and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) investigators searched for the cause.They found two likely sources in unlikely, yet ter …"

"… ld travel through the larger medical community. Dr. Pritish Tosh, a former investigator at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Epidemic Intelligence Se …"

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