60 Minutes Archives | John Tedesco https://johntedesco.net/blog/tag/60-minutes/ Investigative Journalist in Houston, Texas Fri, 26 Jan 2018 21:28:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 26139830 How two small-town reporters in Kentucky took down a corrupt sheriff https://johntedesco.net/blog/2012/05/20/how-two-small-town-reporters-in-kentucky-took-down-a-corrupt-sheriff/ https://johntedesco.net/blog/2012/05/20/how-two-small-town-reporters-in-kentucky-took-down-a-corrupt-sheriff/#comments Sun, 20 May 2012 15:36:17 +0000 https://www.johntedesco.net/blog/?p=9221 Journalists Adam Sulfridge and Samantha Swindler were both in their 20s and working for a small newspaper, the Times-Tribune in Whitley County, Kentucky, when they began investigating rumors about Sheriff Lawrence Hodge and his ties to drug dealers. Federal agents had investigated Hodge in the past but their inquiry fizzled. The sheriff was too insulated ...

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]]> Journalists Adam Sulfridge and Samantha Swindler were both in their 20s and working for a small newspaper, the Times-Tribune in Whitley County, Kentucky, when they began investigating rumors about Sheriff Lawrence Hodge and his ties to drug dealers.

How two small town reporters in Kentucky took down a corrupt sheriff John TedescoFederal agents had investigated Hodge in the past but their inquiry fizzled. The sheriff was too insulated and powerful. People were afraid to talk. The feds thought Hodge was untouchable.

He wasn’t.

Check out this fantastic 60 Minutes video about how two young journalists were able to do what the feds couldn’t — bring down a corrupt sheriff.

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