All Blog Posts from Investigative Round-Up

Chicago Tribune: The man told Thomas Goodwin he wanted to kill himself to end the pain of pancreatic cancer. But first he wanted to go downstairs to get a photograph of his wife.

So Goodwin—then president of Final Exit Network, one of the nation's most prominent assisted suicide groups — waited in the bedroom for the man to return.

Instead, Goodwin was surprised by agents from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, who burst in and arrested him on Wednesday for violating the state's assisted suicide law. They also opened a new front in a resurgent war over Americans' right to take their own lives. (Read the article)

Washington Post:
The woman who masterminded the biggest embezzlement in D.C. government history inherited a scam running in the city's tax office and relied on a culture of mismanagement and corruption so entrenched that she escaped notice for almost 20 years.
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(read the statement from the United States Attorney's Office)

BBC News:
A handful of violent and degrading attacks on disabled people have provoked outrage among the press and public. But are they isolated cases or one end of a spectrum of intimidation and violence that many disabled people encounter?
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