INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) – Reaction is building at the Indiana Statehouse to an I-Team 8 investigation that showed your tax dollars being withdrawn as cash in liquor stores, strip clubs and casinos across the state and even across the country. One lawmaker who saw what I-Team 8 uncovered is now demanding immediate action and an investigation into why one potential fix to the problem is being ignored.
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did run that deep. If it had, I suspect the bill would have been much stronger. When this bill was presented, none of the evidence that you have shared was brought forward.” Miller said her focus now is on stopping illegal withdrawals before they happen. “All the evidence you have found must be investigated and must stop,” she said. “It is assistance for families. That’s where the money needs to go. And we need to stop any amount of fraud. To me, that’s what this is: fraud. With the technology we have today, there hav …
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With every high point for a franchise, there comes a low point, and the Pacers low point began on November 19,2004. The Malice In the Palace. The epic throwdown between the Pacers and the Pistons, set off by a fan’s moronic decision to throw his beer on Metta World Peace (formerly known as Ron Artest). The immediate fallout was mutiple player suspensions. Loose cannon Artest was gone for the season and the playoffs, totaling seventy-three games, an NBA record for a suspension. The brawl seemed to set off a string of legal problems and bad headlines for the team. There were failed drug tests, arrests, strip club shoot-outs, and general fan discord. Larry Bird, now an executive, was forced with trying to weed out the bad apples, draft effectively, and work around a tight salary cap. They sent home troublemaker Jamaal Tinsley, essentially paying him NOT to play.
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Although none of these current Pacers are punching-out fans or shooting-up strip clubs, they aren’t setting the NBA on fire either. Respected in quiet circles around the league, the Pacers remain a shadow behind flashy teams like the Heat, Bulls, and New York Knicks, who make as many headlines for drama as they do for the sheer size of the cities they play for. Even in his absence, Dwight Howard’s soap opera seemed to overwhelm the Playoff series between the Magic and Pacers. I guess any press is good press. Yet and still, the world will get a chance to see this new team up close on a grand stage, when the Pacers take their talents to South Beach. If the world decides to look close enough, they will undoubtedly see that basketball has indeed returned to Indiana.
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Three years ago, federal prosecutors pursuing public corruption cases were keenly reminded of how perilous the work is, if not done right. A federal judge voided the conviction of former U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens, a Republican from of Alaska, after allegations of prosecutorial misconduct arose.
Several top-ranking officials in the Justice Department’s Public Integrity Section, which oversees public corruption prosecutions, subsequently lost their jobs.
Hogsett is mindful of the perils, including the classic defense in public corruption cases: That it’s political. Hogsett is a longtime Democrat activist who served as Secretary of State and ran unsuccessfully for U.S. Senate.
He’s pledged to turn a blind eye to partisan politics in pursuing public corruption cases. As evidence, he cites recent prosecutions by his office of two Indianapolis city councilmen: one a Republican convicted of taking bribes to grease the wheels for a new strip club; the other a Democrat charged with swindling more than $1 million from an investor.
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Former Marion County Sheriff Jack Cottey: We Want Him Gone
POSTED: 7:05 pm EDT April 18, 2012
UPDATED: 7:36 pm EDT April 18, 2012
INDIANAPOLIS — Former central Indiana law enforcement officers called for Public Safety Director Frank Straub to be removed from office after he accused the Indianapolis Metro Police Department of decades of neglect and lack of accountability.
“We knew that officers were drinking on duty. We knew that officers were going to strip clubs, but we didn’t hold them accountable. You don’t fix history in two weeks or two years, Straub said on Tuesday. “What I’ve heard from the management of this police department over and over again for the two years and four months that I’ve been here, is we knew this was going on, we just never bothered to fix it.
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… I don’t know how you can run an investigation when it’s going well, then hand it off when it’s not going well,” Owensby said.
Straub rejected such suggestions, saying problems with the department dating back half a century could not be fixed in a couple of years. He also said property room procedures have not been updated since 1980.
“This is 30 or 40 or 50 years of neglect and what I’ve heard from the management of the police department over and over and over again during the two years and four months that I’ve been here is that, ‘We knew this was going on, we just never bothered to fix it. We knew officers were drinking on duty. We knew that officers were going to strip clubs, but we didn’t take action. We didn’t hold ourselves or those officers accountable.’”
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Man Shot By Police After Strip Club Threat
Suspect Listed In Critical Condition
POSTED: 10:54 pm EDT April 17, 2012
UPDATED: 7:23 am EDT April 18, 2012
INDIANAPOLIS — Police shot and critically wounded a man who opened fire on officers on Indianapolis’ west side late Tuesday, investigators said.
Officers were called to Patty’s Show Club in the 2000 block of West Washington Street just after 10:30 p.m. after employees said an unruly customer threatened to come back and “shoot the place up,” police said.
Officers found the man walking in the 2400 block of West Washington Street, but when they tried to approach him, he fired several shots at them, police said.
“When the officers got out and tried to engage the suspect and find out what exactly his dealings were, he turned around, without provocation, and fired upon the officers,” said Indianapolis police spokesman Officer Kendale Adams.
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Indianapolis police badly wound man after chase
Updated: Wednesday, 18 Apr 2012, 6:23 AM EDTPublished : Wednesday, 18 Apr 2012, 6:23 AM EDT
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Indianapolis police said officers shot and critically wounded a man who fired several shots at them after he was thrown out of an Indianapolis strip club.
Officer Kendale Adams said no officers were wounded when the man shot at them when they spotted him walking along Washington Street on the city’s near-west side late Tuesday.
He said the officers chased the man for several blocks before he pointed the gun at them and officers shot him numerous times. Adams said the man was taken to a hospital in critical condition. Police said confrontation began when officers were called to Patty’s Show Club on a report of the man being unruly and threatening to “shoot the place up.”
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A judge ruled in May 2011 that blood-alcohol evidence could not be used to bring charges of drunken driving, but ruled later that it could be used to support a charge of criminal recklessness.
Last week, a Marion County judge ruled that prosecutors could test a second vial of Bisard’s blood drawn shortly after the crash, which is when the mishandling was discovered.
Straub said the overall culture of the department needs to change.
“This is just another unnecessary incident in this police department. We have to stop blowing ourselves up. We have to hold ourselves accountable as a police department,” Straub said. “We knew that officers were drinking on duty. We knew that officers were going to strip clubs ? but we didn’t hold them accountable. You don’t fix history in two weeks or two years.”
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A judge ruled in May 2011 that blood-alcohol evidence could not be used to bring charges of drunken driving, but ruled later that it could be used to support a charge of criminal recklessness.
Last week, a Marion County judge ruled that prosecutors could test a second vial of Bisard’s blood drawn shortly after the crash, which is when the mishandling was discovered.
Straub said the overall culture of the department needs to change.
“This is just another unnecessary incident in this police department. We have to stop blowing ourselves up. We have to hold ourselves accountable as a police department,” Straub said. “We knew that officers were drinking on duty. We knew that officers were going to strip clubs ? but we didn’t hold them accountable. You don’t fix history in two weeks or two years.”
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