Jamie Grey 5k6652
Director of Investigations z1r2l
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Jamie specializes in crime, political and data investigative reporting and producing. Prior to coming to InvestigateTV, she was an assistant professor at the University of Missouri School of Journalism and managing editor/chief investigator for the NBC in the Columbia/Jefferson City area. She has prior reporting experience in Iowa and Idaho and has won various state and regional awards for her investigative work. Jamie is a graduate of Mizzou, with degrees in journalism and higher education leadership and policy analysis. 1i3q43
High School Hustle: Athletes cash in on name, image and likeness as states grapple with regulations 3v4o5j
NIL regulations vary by state for high school athletes. Our investigators take an in-depth look at the journey of Jada Williams and Richie Clementi as they navigate the business side of sports at a young age.
Defective: Toy companies continue selling similar products following recalls 51266r
Recalls of dangerous consumer products can sometimes take months if not years. But even after a recall, similar-looking products remain on the market. InvestigateTV examined toys that had been recalled and similar-looking products that weren't.
Defective: Dangerous consumer products find their way into America by ship and through online retailers 6a472t
Every year, the SC finds thousands of everyday household products for sale online or arriving at shipping ports that fail to meet federal safety standards. It is illegal to sell products in the U.S. that have been banned, recalled or failed to meet federal safety standards.
Defective: After recalls, Americans continue to die and get injured as products remain in homes and for sale online 155e6b
An InvestigateTV analysis of Consumer Product Safety Commission data shows that since 2000, the agency has had to re-announce the recall of at least 46 products because the original alert did not reach the ears of consumers and, in many cases, continued to cause harm.
Permission to Practice: Doctors, patients say insurance prior-authorizations put profits over people q41q
Insurance companies say these reviews lower costs and protect patients, but what requires advance permission varies plan to plan, and critics argue the policies get between a patient and their doctor.
Defective: The federal government knows that consumers are using hundreds of dangerous everyday products 4271f
When a company learns a product it sells could be defective and dangerous, it has 24 hours to let the federal government’s Consumer Product Safety Commission know about it. But it could take months or years for the public to find out about the company’s possible concerns, if they even come to light at all. InvestigateTV has been battling SC and companies to disclose information about the products companies have sounded the alarm on – an alarm that remains relatively silent.
Secret Subsidies: Program meant to help farmers in trade war overspent, lacked transparency and compliance checks 5w3h71
Experts say $23 billion USDA program set a precedent for spending without Congressional oversight and had a concerning mix of political influence and limited compliance monitoring.
Ignition: Spontaneous electric vehicle fires prompt recalls, but some owners stalled waiting on repairs i4n6f
Electric vehicle fires can start when cars are parked or charging, which car safety experts say make them different and more shocking than other car fires. Companies are working on implementing a fix for defective batteries, but it's taking longer than owners would like.
Defective: When government safety officials learned about 13 deaths tied to an infant rocker, a federal law prevented them from immediately alerting the public l78
After the deaths of 13 children over the last 12 years, this summer, Fisher-Price and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission warned parents not to let their children sleep in certain rockers the company has made since the 1990s. Now, InvestigateTV has discovered that during a 2021 Congressional hearing, the company dodged questions about whether it currently had products on the market linked to children’s deaths.
Operation Profit: Some surgeons pull in millions by owning medical device companies 5l492n
Sometimes a surgeon is the salesman. Across the country, there are physician-owned distributorships where doctors own part of a medical device company and then buy (or have their hospital buy) that hardware to use in their own surgeries.
Democratic lawmakers push U.S. Transportation Secretary for faster changes to crash test dummy standards 3v4v53
The bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act requires research into the gender gap in vehicle crash testing, but lawmakers want Secretary Pete Buttigieg to take action now to close the Collision Division.
Defective: Government agency shackled by law often takes years to issue recalls on potentially dangerous products 5g6p19
It takes years for the Consumer Product Safety Commission to remove dangerous products from the market because of its cumbersome rule-making process and ineffective recalls that don’t incentivize consumers to return or destroy dangerous items.
In Appalachia and the Mississippi Delta, millions face long drives to stroke care 3x671s
Across the nation, nearly 800,000 people suffer strokes each year. When someone has a stroke, minutes matter, but hospital closures and other access issues mean millions of people find it difficult to get specialty stroke care quickly.
Large swaths of rural America are health care deserts with too few primary care doctors, pediatricians, and OB-GYNs to care for residents 592f44
In 207 counties in 2018, there wasn’t a family, general or internal medicine doctor – the primary care doctors mainly for adults, according to an InvestigateTV analysis of federal data.
Penalties at Play: Millions of dollars flow to nursing homes from fines they have paid for poor care 515m1o
Every year millions of dollars flow to nursing homes from a fund that is padded with fines collected from long-term care facilities that inspections show have put the health and safety of residents in jeopardy.
Prosecuted and Paid: Government doles out billions in coronavirus relief money to companies that paid out millions in fraud-related cases 3w67e
More than 200 companies that paid the federal government for fraud related accusations in the last decade received billions of dollars in unsolicited relief money as part of the coronavirus bailout package.
