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  1. Lawmakers demand answers about Nevada telemarketer and his clients
    Yesterday• Investigations
    Richard Zeitlin's clients include a PAC called the Children's Leukemia Support Network. About 86 percent of the money raised by the leukemia network went to Zeitlin’s companies. Facebook
    Las Vegas police also ‘looking into’ officer following Center for Public Integrity investigation.
  2. You’re trapped. This Florida hospital is cashing in.
    Yesterday• Investigations
    Michael Jenkins spent seven days at North Tampa Behavioral Health last July. Since then, he says his three children have been afraid he’ll leave and not come home. JOHN PENDYGRAFT | Times
    The patients have no choice, and the hospital is making millions.
  3. Read North Tampa Behavioral Health’s response to our investigation
    Yesterday• Investigations
    The Times’ reporting focused on how the hospital misuses Florida’s Baker Act.
  4. They donated to kids with cancer. A Vegas telemarketer cashed in.
    Sep. 12• Investigations
    Seven-year-old Sriyam Sriadibhatla, who suffers from B acute lymphoblastic leukemia, waits for chemotherapy at Palm Beach Children's Hospital in West Palm Beach. Susan Stocker
    A look inside his machine, which turns charitable and political contributions into paydays.
  5. Johns Hopkins All Children’s faces record state fines
    Sep. 7• Investigations
    State regulators plan to fine Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg a total of more than $800,000. SCOTT KEELER | Times
    The planned $800,000 penalty is the latest fallout from problems in the hospital’s heart surgery department.
  6. Johns Hopkins to pay nearly $40 million to two families hurt by All Children’s heart surgeries
    Aug. 23• Investigations
    Rosana Escamilla gives her daughter Alexcia tiny pieces of food to taste in their home in August 2018. Alexcia was left paralyzed after a heart surgery at John Hopkins All Children's Hospital. The details of her case match the public filing of a $12.75 million settlement the hospital recently signed with a family. EVE EDELHEIT | Tampa Bay Times
    The hospital has been negotiating with 11 families; some were struggling to afford the immense cost of care.
  7. They went to the Dozier School for Boys damaged. They came out destroyed.
    Aug. 18• Investigations
    EDMUND D. FOUNTAIN | Times (03/19/2009) In the woods not far from the current Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys, up a dirt road, and up a hill is a small cemetery with 31 unmarked graves. Some of the White House Boys think the bodies of children murdered by guards at the Florida School for Boys are buried in the cemetery. Some of the graves can be attributed to students killed in a 1914 fire. Others can be attributed to a flu epidemic that swept the campus, but not all are accounted for.
    Read the classic Tampa Bay Times story that exposed a dark chapter of Florida history.
  8. Family settles for $2.3 million over All Children’s heart surgery death
    Jun. 28• Investigations
    Johns Hopkins All Children‘s Hospital. [CHRIS URSO | Times]
    It is the first settlement to become public. Others are expected.
  9. The law firm investigating All Children’s filed its report. The hospital will make big changes.
    Jun. 28• Investigations
    Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital, St. Petersburg. [SCOTT KEELER | Times]
    The investigation was commissioned by the board of Johns Hopkins Medicine, which runs the hospital, following a Times investigation into fatal problems in All Children’s heart surgery unit.
  10. Extra oversight for children’s heart surgery signed into law
    Jun. 26• Investigations
    Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital, St. Petersburg. (SCOTT KEELER | Times)
    Outside physicians will now be allowed to inspect Florida heart surgery programs. The change follows problems at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital.

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Adam Playford, Deputy Editor for Investigations

Kathleen McGrory, Deputy Investigations Editor

Corey G. Johnson, Investigative Reporter

Neil Bedi, Investigative Reporter

Rebecca Woolington, Investigative Reporter

Bethany Barnes, Investigative Reporter

Connie Humburg, Data Reporter

Eli Murray, Data Reporter

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