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Tom Meyer - The Investigator

Investigator: Latest dishwasher fire suspected in Geauga

2:16 AM, Feb 7, 2012

It's an everyday appliance, but investigators now suspect that a dishwasher is the cause of an extraordinary fire

Investigator: Nuns plan to tackle Super Bowl sex traffickers

11:49 PM, Feb 2, 2012

The Giants and Patriots aren't the only ones preparing for battle this Super Bowl Sunday.

Investigator: Safe water found at Wellington gas spill

7:15 PM, Jan 30, 2012

Water tested near homes in the Lorain County community of Wellington was found to be safe.

Investigator: Abusive nursing aide jailed

7:16 PM, Jan 26, 2012

Maria Karban was once named nurse's aide of the year at MetroHealth's nursing home. But, she's now a convicted criminal headed to jail for six months.

Cost to fix fire department payroll abuses around $1M

6:53 PM, Jan 25, 2012

A city audit sounded the alarm on payroll abuses at the Cleveland Fire Department. Now, we're learning how much it's going to cost us to fix the system that let it happen.

Investigator: State fines Dominion $500,000

7:20 PM, Jan 24, 2012

The "number and severity  of the violations" led the state to issue the fines one year after a gas explosion ripped apart Fairport Harbor.

Investigator: 15-year-old saved from sex ring

11:53 PM, Jan 20, 2012

It was a one-way bus ticket into Northeast Ohio's sex trade.

Investigator: Cleveland's underground sex industry

9:48 AM, Jan 17, 2012

They called it the "boom boom room," an open area in a basement where girls were forced to engage in unprotected sex

Investigator: Judge sends abusive nurse's aide to prison

7:13 PM, Jan 9, 2012

If it wasn't for a hidden camera, we may have never known about the abuse Esther Piskor suffered.

Investigator: Mortgage fraud ringleaders get long sentences

6:37 PM, Jan 5, 2012

A federal judge today sentenced two major players in one of the country's largest mortgage fraud schemes to lengthy prison terms.

Investigator: Dimora uses sexist, racist slurs on wiretaps

6:48 AM, Jan 5, 2012

FBI has video of Dimora on 2008 Las Vegas trip that prosecutors say was paid for by corrupt contractors.

Investigator: Feds record Dimora talking to U.S. judge

6:07 AM, Jan 5, 2012

A secretly-recorded conversation between a U.S District Court judge in Cleveland and Jimmy Dimora

The Investigator: A look back at 2011

3:59 PM, Dec 29, 2011

It was another busy year for the Channel 3 News investigative team.

Investigator: Nurse's aide admits abuse at MetroHealth

6:18 PM, Dec 22, 2011

A one-time Nurse's Aide of the Year at a county-funded nursing home admitted to assaulting a 78-year-old resident

Sheriff: Accident led to Amish girl's death

6:37 PM, Dec 20, 2011

An Ohio sheriff says a man cleaning his muzzle-loading rifle accidentally shot and killed a 15-year-old Amish girl driving a horse-drawn buggy more than a mile away.

Panel orders former deputy auditor's relatives rehired

6:46 PM, Dec 16, 2011

A state panel is "ordering" Cuyahoga County to re-hire two relatives of a former deputy auditor.

Investigator: Lawmaker seeks probe on grant spending

6:54 AM, Dec 14, 2011

A Democratic state senator is asking the state Department of Development to investigate allegations of misspending at a non-profit agency that uses state grants to help low income residents with heating bills.

Investigator: Inspector General finds Head Start hazards

11:53 PM, Dec 13, 2011

Head Start pre-schoolers were exposed to all kinds of hazards including toxic chemicals, an unattended machete, and unsafe playground equipment, according to the Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Investigator: Fire, police big earners in city overtime

12:00 AM, Dec 9, 2011

City auditors may have pulled the alarm on payroll abuses at the Cleveland firefighters, but Channel 3 News found that the department's top brass are among those who collected the biggest overtime pay.

Investigator: Judge seals records in Orange bomb threat

5:01 PM, Dec 7, 2011

County judge sealed results of FBI search warrant at home of a "juvenile suspect" in Orange High School bomb threats.

Investigator: City Hall, firefighters meet over payroll abuses

1:33 PM, Dec 7, 2011

Cleveland city safety brass and firefighter officials meeting Wednesday to discuss the city's new payroll policy

Investigator: Friend says Orange student "wrongly accused"

7:02 PM, Dec 6, 2011

Friend of the boy whose home was searched today by FBI says the boy had "zero involvement" in bomb threats at Orange

Investigator: County council members call for spending probe

11:41 PM, Dec 1, 2011

Cuyahoga County members calling for county's inspector general to investigate questionable spending by non-profit agency

Investigator: Councilman calls for heads to roll

6:53 PM, Dec 1, 2011

Cleveland City Councilman Jeff Johnson says he has heard from insiders in the city's fire department

Investigator: Council grills safety leaders on audit findings

7:28 PM, Nov 30, 2011

Council members grilled top safety brass at a committee meeting about an audit

Investigator: State senator questioned under oath about her residency

11:43 PM, Nov 29, 2011

State Senator Shirley Smith testified that Channel 3 News hidden cameras caught her living outside of her district

Investigator: Nurse's aide faces 10 years for patient abuse

8:06 PM, Nov 28, 2011

A former MetroHealth Medical Center nurse's aide faces more than seven years in prison

Investigator: Head Start agency head questioned on credit card

9:00 AM, Nov 24, 2011

Investigator Tom Meyer questions how the head of Head Start got to use the company credit card.

FBI makes more 'Amish attacks' arrests, including clan leader

8:39 PM, Nov 23, 2011

FBI made more arrests at the Bergholz Clan's compound in the Amish attacks in Holmes County

Investigator: Watch video of alleged police beating

5:16 PM, Nov 23, 2011

Aerial video footage obtained by Channel 3 News appears to show an officer kicking a man who is lying on the ground

The Investigator wants to hear from you. If you know of corruption, government waste, consumer fraud or wrongdoing, please contact

Tom Meyer
"The Investigator"
216-344-3464
tommeyer@wkyc.com

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