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Even after workplace deaths, companies avoid OSHA penalties
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — The temperature outside barely reached double digits on the morning of Jan. 15, 2009, and, inside the Crucible Specialty Metals steel mill here, it was bitterly cold. Ice coated the...
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The Center for Public Integrity’s analysis relies on data from multiple sources, including the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the Treasury Department and the Justice Department. Using...
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Adelson gave $40 million to super PACs in final weeks of election
Billionaire casino magnate Sheldon Adelson and family poured nearly $40 million into the coffers of GOP-aligned super PACs In the final three weeks of the 2012 campaign, bringing their total giving to...
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Donor profile: Joe Craft
Ranking: 21Total contributions to super PACs: $4.4 million*$3.4 million to American Crossroads (pro-Republican), including $850,000 from his company, Alliance Management Holdings$1 million to Restore...
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Donor profile: William S. Rose (Specialty Group)
Ranking: 6Total contributions to super PACs: $12.1 million*$12.1 million to FreedomWorks for America (pro-conservative)Federal hard money and 527 contributions: $0Corporate names: Specialty Investments...
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Donor profile: AFSCME
Ranking: 12Total contributions to super PACs: $8.2 million*$3.9 million to Workers’ Voice (pro-Democratic), formerly known as AFL-CIO Workers’ Voices PAC$1 million to Majority PAC...
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Donor profile: American Federation of Teachers
Ranking: 15Total contributions to super PACs: $5.8 million*$2 million to Majority PAC (pro-Democratic)$1.5 million to Priorities USA Action (pro-Barack Obama)$1.1 million to Workers’ Voice...
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Donor profile: Michael Bloomberg
Ranking: 9Total contributions to super PACs: $10 million*$10 million to Independence USA PAC (pro-moderates and independents)$50,000 to Women VOTE! (pro-Democratic)Notable federal hard money and 527...
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Donor profile: Plumbers and Pipefitters Union
Ranking: 23 Total contributions to super PACs: $4.2 million*$2.4 million to Priorities USA Action (pro-Barack Obama)$725,000 to Majority PAC (pro-Democratic)$500,000 to Workers’ Voice...
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Donor profile: George Soros
Ranking: 18Total contributions to super PACs: $5.1 million**$1.1 million combined from son Jonathan Soros, son Alexander Soros and daughter Andrea Soros Colombel to Friends of Democracy (pro-campaign...
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Hospital 'facility fees' boosting medical bills, and not just for hospital care
After Vermont hospitals started buying up the medical practices of local physicians, state Sen. Kevin Mullin of Rutland, began hearing complaints that prices some patients were paying for routine...
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Best of 2012: National Security
A U.S. Army M1 Abrams tank rolls through the center of Tikrit, Iraq, north of Baghdad, in 2003. An Army proposal to stop work on the tank, a $3 billion savings, has been blocked by the members of four...
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OPINION: insurance scare tactics
One of the most ill-advised promises President Obama made during the health care reform debate was this: “If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan.”He should have known...
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Missing: $200M in gas receipts for NATO aid in Afghanistan
The multinational NATO force in Afghanistan has declared that it spent more than $200 million to buy fuel for the Afghan Army in 2010 and 2011, but cannot locate any documents to substantiate the...
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Best of 2012: Accountability
How accountable is your state? Read the State Integrity Investigation, an unprecedented, data-driven analysis of transparency and accountability in all 50 state governments.The Center for Public...
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Best of 2012: Health reporting
Our 21-month 'Craking the Code' investigation documented for the first time how some medical professionals have billed Medicare at sharply higher rates than their peers and collected billions of...
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Los Angeles school police still ticketing thousands of young students
Even as Los Angeles authorities continue efforts to reform school-discipline standards, fresh data show that police from the city’s biggest school district are continuing to ticket thousands of young...
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Best of 2012: Election coverage
The Supreme Court reinterpreted the law about how money from corporations and unions could be spent on campaigns. Super PACs and other outside groups made possible by the court's decision spent more...
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In Sri Lanka, new steps target mysterious kidney disease
The Sri Lankan government is vowing to impose tighter controls on pesticides and fertilizers amid growing concern the chemicals are helping fuel a mysterious epidemic of chronic kidney disease...
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Best of 2012: International journalism
Anonymous buyers, using tax shelters and hiding behind offshore secrecy, are taking over more and more blocks of luxury housing in the UK, particularly in London.The Center for Public...
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