{"id":5193,"date":"2010-04-05T08:53:35","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T13:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johntedesco.net\/blog\/?p=5193"},"modified":"2017-09-01T18:19:21","modified_gmt":"2017-09-01T23:19:21","slug":"video-how-a-journalist-uncovered-fraud-in-a-350-million-child-care-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johntedesco.net\/blog\/2010\/04\/05\/video-how-a-journalist-uncovered-fraud-in-a-350-million-child-care-program\/","title":{"rendered":"How a journalist uncovered fraud in a $350 million child-care program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johntedesco.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Raquel_Rutledge1.jpg\" alt=\"Video of investigative reporter Raquel Rutledge\" title=\"Raquel Rutledge\" width=\"450\" height=\"298\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/johntedesco.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Raquel_Rutledge1.jpg 450w, https:\/\/johntedesco.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Raquel_Rutledge1-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rosland Gammon had an interesting Q&#038;A with investigative reporter Raquel Rutledge of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, who uncovered rampant fraud in a $350 million, taxpayer-subsidized child-care program. Her series of stories, <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20100122011749\/http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/news\/38617217.html\/\">Cashing in on Kids<\/a>, led to criminal charges against the scammers.<\/p>\n<p>A video profiling Rutledge offers a glimpse at the tedious grunt work required to get the story. Rutledge relied on insiders with access to key documents, and she staked out people who were abusing the system.<\/p>\n<p>After months of work, here was the lede for her <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20170518072858\/http:\/\/archive.jsonline.com\/watchdog\/watchdogreports\/38283494.html\">first story<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On paper Angela Hale is a child-care provider.<\/p>\n<p>She reported taking care of the same five kids seven days a week while their mom supposedly worked at a lawn-care service, even in the winter months.<\/p>\n<p>The government paid Hale more than $30,000 last year for her child-care business.<\/p>\n<p>It appears the government got duped. Hale didn&#8217;t care for the kids at times she said she did, nor did the mom legitimately work, the Journal Sentinel found.<\/p>\n<p>The newspaper spent four months investigating the $340 million taxpayer-financed child-care system known as Wisconsin Shares and uncovered a trail of phony companies, fake reports and shoddy oversight.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em><strong><br \/>\nRelated: <a href=\"https:\/\/johntedesco.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/23\/texas-tribune-stakes-claim-for-watchdog-journalism\/\" target=\"_blank\">Texas Tribune stakes claim for watchdog journalism<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Maybe investigative journalists &#8212; whether they work in newspapers, broadcast, or online &#8212; need to produce more of these &#8220;How We Did It&#8221; videos. They might help bridge the disconnect between the public perception of what reporters do, and the reality of what they do. &#8220;Investigative reporting requires a lot of shoe leather work &#8212; knocking on doors, tracking people down, and a lot of research,&#8221; Rutledge said in the video.<\/p>\n<p>That kind of work takes time &#8212; and money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rosland Gammon had an interesting Q&#038;A with investigative reporter Raquel Rutledge of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, who uncovered rampant fraud in a $350 million, taxpayer-subsidized child-care program. Her series of stories, Cashing in on Kids, led to criminal charges against the scammers. 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