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Mark Greenblatt

  • Executive Editor, Howard Center for Investigative Journalism
Washington, D.C.
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Emails reveal top health officials wrongfully influenced baby investigation: Public Citizen

Emails reveal top health officials wrongfully influenced baby investigation: Public Citizen

10 News San Diego — WASHINGTON, D.C. - Top U.S. health officials inappropriately influenced a federal inquiry into alleged ethical blunders involving a major National Institutes of Health study of premature infants, according to the Washington-based watchdog group Public Citizen. More than 400 pages of heavily redacted emails obtained by Public Citizen appear to show that officials in the Department of Health and Human Services permitted NIH Director Francis Collins and others to review and edit investigative findings by the Office for Human Research Protections. The OHRP is supposed to work as an independent oversight group to help assure safe, ethical standards in medical research.
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Bipartisan bill would stop lawmakers' from using tax dollars for first-class air travel

Bipartisan bill would stop lawmakers' from using tax dollars for first-class air travel

ABC 15 Phoenix — WASHINGTON, D.C. - We've been tracking the use and abuse of first- and business-class travel by federal workers. Our reporting turned up some pretty pricey tickets purchased by agencies such as NASA and some very sloppy recordkeeping across the government. But now, the finger is being pointed at another group of government workers - members of Congress. And it's lawmakers themselves who are pointing the finger. A bipartisan group of representatives introduced a bill this week that would stop members of Congress from using tax dollars to travel in first class. "Members of Congress shouldn't be flying first class on the taxpayers' dime," Rep.
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Some federal employees are flying high on taxpayers' dime

Some federal employees are flying high on taxpayers' dime

Scripps DC via 7 News Denver — Would you spend more than $16,000 to upgrade to a business class flight? Our investigation found one federal agency let a top executive use your tax dollars to do just that. [Read the full investigation: NASA spends millions to fly first and business class with little oversight] Federal rules require government employees to fly coach for domestic and international trips except in rare instances: when the traveler has a medical disability, is traveling more than 14 hours or when no coach fares are available within 24 hours of the departure time.
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FBI: Active shooting incidents triple in recent years

FBI: Active shooting incidents triple in recent years

Scripps DC via WCPO Cincinnati — WASHINGTON - Lakim Faust dressed himself in black one Friday in June, grabbed a pistol-grip shotgun and 100 rounds of ammunition and walked out the door of his apartment in Greenville, N.C. with one intention - to shoot and kill a large number of people. The 23-year-old gunman shot his first victim, an insurance adjuster sitting in a parked car, before calmly walking across the street and shooting three others in a Wal-Mart parking lot, according to local police reports. Eventually the police shot and subdued the gunman. Because no one died in the rampage, this incident was not classified as a mass killing and likely would have escaped deeper scrutiny.
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Scripps Exclusive: FBI Active Shooter Search

Scripps Exclusive: FBI Active Shooter Search

www.newsnet5.com — Scripps Exclusive: FBI Active Shooter Search
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Ford, Berkshire Hathaway subsidiary settle insurance dispute

Ford, Berkshire Hathaway subsidiary settle insurance dispute

Scripps DC via WXYZ Detroit — WASHINGTON - The Ford Motor Co. announced Monday it settled a lawsuit with Berkshire Hathaway Inc. subsidiary National Indemnity Co. for $22.1 million -- $2 million more than the automaker sued for in the dispute related to unpaid claims from rollover deaths. "When you sue for $20 million in unpaid claims and you receive a settlement for $22.1 million, it's a good day," said Scott Oostdyk, an attorney for Ford. The case had been set for trial later this month in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.
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Berkshire Hathaway subsidiaries deny, delay asbestos, hazard claims, suits, insiders allege

Berkshire Hathaway subsidiaries deny, delay asbestos, hazard claims, suits, insiders allege

ScrippsDC via WPTV-TV West Palm Beach — For months, mysterious white flakes and construction dust fell on Nancy Lopez's desk in the Jackson County Courthouse in Kansas City, Mo. No question the debris was worse after renovation crews worked the weekend. But really, the mess was getting out of hand. On that Monday in 1983, Lopez grabbed a rag and started dusting. The impeccably dressed young administrative assistant finished tidying her office and set to work. Unknowingly, she had brushed off her desk, into the air and into her lungs deadly asbestos fibers. Those tiny fibers stayed with Lopez for decades, and, in 2009, at age 54, she learned she was dying from mesothelioma, an asbestos-caused cancer.
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Hotel Room Locks Picked in Seconds

Hotel Room Locks Picked in Seconds

ABC News — A report by ABC News showing how easy it was to break into certain electronic door locks used by major hotels has prompted the Holiday Inn chain today to announce a drive to "expedite" efforts to fix the locks. The ABC News report included a visit to the Holiday Inn Express Times Square on 39th Street, where we checked in to a room and demonstrated a major security flaw that allows guest doors to be opened without a hotel-issued key. The problem centers around a particular model of hotel door lock made by Onity, a company which describes itself as the, "Worldwide Leader In Electronic Locks."
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Man Blows Whistle on For-Profit College

Man Blows Whistle on For-Profit College

ABC News — Jason Sobek says he left his job as admissions supervisor at the nation's second-largest operator of for-profit colleges -- the Education Management Corp., or EDMC -- on good terms. But before he quit, Sobek filed a whistle-blower lawsuit against this provider of post-secondary education, alleging its marketing materials deceived prospective students by falsely inflating job placement statistics at its many campuses around the country. "They manipulated the job placement rates by counting students working in a job that they did not need the degree for," Sobek told ABC News. "In my opinion, it's a wretched fraud."
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Unpaid Water Bills Lead to Foreclosures

Unpaid Water Bills Lead to Foreclosures

ABC News — Actor and musician Richard Burton is facing foreclosure on his Baltimore home, but not because he didn't pay his mortgage on time. In his case, he says it all began with an overdue $1,037.42 water bill. Burton lost his job playing "Shamrock" McGinty on HBO's "The Wire" when the show went off the air. He couldn't afford the bill and claims it was incorrectly inflated to begin with. However, the cash-strapped city of Baltimore turned to a controversial way to collect. The city sold his unpaid debt to a private company that also inherited a lien on Burton's home.
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Are 'Spray-On' Tans Safe? Experts Raise Questions as Industry Puts Out Warnings

Are 'Spray-On' Tans Safe? Experts Raise Questions as Industry Puts Out Warnings

ABC News — The active chemical used in spray tans, dihydroxyacetone (DHA), has the potential to cause genetic alterations and DNA damage, according to a panel of medical experts who reviewed 10 of the most-current publicly available scientific studies on DHA for ABC News, including a federal report ABC News obtained through the Freedom of Information Act. Six medical experts in areas ranging across the fields of dermatology, toxicology and pulmonary medicine said they "have concerns" after reviewing the literature and reports about DHA, the main chemical in the popular "spray-on" tan, which has conventionally been referred to as the "safe" alternative to tanning under ultraviolet lights.
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DecodeDC - Home - Episode 32: Inside the Investigation

DecodeDC - Home - Episode 32: Inside the Investigation

www.decodedc.com — Sometimes the journey is as interesting as the destination. That's what our colleague at Scripps News, investigative reporter Mark Greenblatt, discovered as he pursued what he thought was a straightforward news story. Greenblatt got a tip: NASA was spending a boatload of money on first-class and business-class airfares. That set Greenblatt off on a quest worthy of Camelot, through mazes of bureaucracy, mountains of Freedom of Information requests and dungeons of unreturned phone calls. We thought the story of the story said a lot about the government - and about trying to report on the government. So we debriefed him for this week's podcast.
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Bipartisan bill would stop lawmakers' from using tax dollars for first-class air travel

Bipartisan bill would stop lawmakers' from using tax dollars for first-class air travel

ABC 15 Phoenix — WASHINGTON, D.C. - We've been tracking the use and abuse of first- and business-class travel by federal workers. Our reporting turned up some pretty pricey tickets purchased by agencies such as NASA and some very sloppy recordkeeping across the government. But now, the finger is being pointed at another group of government workers - members of Congress. And it's lawmakers themselves who are pointing the finger. A bipartisan group of representatives introduced a bill this week that would stop members of Congress from using tax dollars to travel in first class. "Members of Congress shouldn't be flying first class on the taxpayers' dime," Rep.
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