Travis Tygart was chiefly instrumental in leading the expose of whom, now a fallen hero, in 2012?
"Travis Tygart Travis Thompson Tygart (born 1971) is an American lawyer and CEO of the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA). He is best known for his role in exposing Lance Armstrong's massive doping operation. A native of Jacksonville, Florida, he attended the Bolles School, He starred on the baseball and basketball teams; on the former, one of his teammates was future Atlanta Braves star Chipper Jones. He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a bachelor's degree in philosophy, and in 2010 received the University's Distinguished Young Alumni Award. Tygart went on to get his J.D."
"for Percy Toplis, Barry Prudom, Arthur Hutchinson and Malcolm Fairley. On 29 February 2012, Rathband, the policeman blinded in Moat's attack, was found hanged at his home in Blyth, Northumberland. Police were called to the house following concerns about his welfare were raised by his sister Debbie who lived in Staffordshire. Rathband had spearheaded the Blue Lamp Foundation, a charity started by his identical twin Darren Rathband whilst he was recovering from his injuries, which assists emergency staff injured in the line of duty. He had struggled to come to terms with his disability. In June, he had been due"
"Ziegel, was not enough to comfortably raise a family. Then Ziegel took part in a CNN program ""Special Investigations Unit"", after which his financial demands were met. That program attracted attention of a wide audience: a large number of people expressed their support to Ziegel. Among them was a World War II veteran Hershel Williams – a retired United States Marine, who received the Medal of Honor for his actions in the Battle of Iwo Jima. The family announced that Ziegel died on December 26, 2012 after falling on ice. About 2,000 flags lined the streets of Metamora for miles"
"should be disclosed. However, PSNI Chief Constable Hugh Orde had the ruling overturned on appeal in January 2005. In April and May 2012, an inquest in front of a jury was held. Reaching its verdict after hearing weeks of evidence, the jury ruled that the SAS had used ""reasonable force"" during the operation and that the IRA men's own actions had contributed to their deaths. Dessie Grew Desmond ""Dessie"" Grew (c. 1953 – 9 October 1990) was a volunteer in the East Tyrone Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA). Grew was killed by undercover Special Air Service soldiers"
"shooting and the report of the RUC's investigating officer. In 2010, a commemorative portrait of McCaughey was unveiled in the Mayor's Parlour at Dungannon Council. Martin McCaughey Gerard Patrick Martin McCaughey (24 February 1967 – 9 October 1990) was a volunteer in the East Tyrone Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) from Aughnagar, Galbally, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. McCaughey was killed by undercover British Army soldiers in County Armagh on October 1990 along with fellow IRA volunteer, Dessie Grew. McCaughey was the oldest son of Owen and Bridget McGaughey. He was a boyhood friend of several of the"
"be active at the time showed that there was no connection. In November 2012 the police announced they had compiled a list that comprised 18 potential identities for the victim which increased to 21-22 following input from the public. The police stated that the strongest candidate for the potential identity of the victim was an individual from Tanzania who had been brought to their attention after a Tanzanian family had made contact. Additional leads were investigated from Ireland, Texas and the Netherlands. In March 2015 the remains of the victim were buried in an unmarked grave in Southern Cemetery, Manchester"
"ruled that any conspiracy to violate Whitehurt's civil rights ended with his death. Following the ruling, the jury returned a verdict in favor of former Police Chief Wright, his top aide, Swindall, and Foster. In 2012, the City of Montgomery acknowledged wrongdoing but no compensation has been given to Whitehurst's family. The Montgomery City Council adopted a resolution that formally expressed regret for the shooting death of Whitehurst. In April 2013, the City of Montgomery placed a historic marker that tells the story of the shooting and the police cover-up in Lister Hill Plaza across from Montgomery City Hall. In"
"fresh round of publicity to the 40-year-old case. In December 2018, following an oral hearing, a parole board report said he had ""changed considerably"" over the last 45 years and legally cleared him for release on parole. David McGreavy David McGreavy (born 1951) is an English convicted murderer who killed a baby and two toddlers in the United Kingdom in 1973. He was in the news in 2013 when an anonymity order imposed in 2009 was lifted based on findings that there was a public interest in his application for parole and that there was no immediate danger to his"
"responsible for the deaths of more than 20,000 people. Although the TRC accepted that figure, Norris Tweah, the Information Minister of Liberia, has since disputed that Blahyi was responsible for that many deaths. Blahyi was the subject of a 2010 documentary film: ""True Stories: The Redemption of General Butt Naked"" by the Sundance Institute, produced and directed by Eric Strauss and Daniele Anastasion. On October 2016 Blahyi appealed to donors to donate half a million dollars to his Journeys Against Violence NGO which trains child soldiers and drug addicts in farming and construction. General Butt Naked Joshua Milton Blahyi (born"
"tension, economic decline and the unemployment that it had brought, as well as individual factors like criminality, hooliganism, the breakdown of social morality and the development of gang culture. On Thursday 4 August 2011, a police officer shot and killed 29-year-old Mark Duggan during an intelligence-led, targeted vehicle stop procedure on the Ferry Lane bridge next to Tottenham Hale station. The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) said that the planned arrest was part of Operation Trident, which at that time investigated gun crime within the black community. The incident had been referred to the IPCC, which is standard practice if"
"by the Eureka Australia Medal award conferred by Dr Joseph Toscano and the Anarchist Media Institute at Bakery Hill, Ballarat on December 3, 2009. John Englart John Englart (born 1955), pseudonym Takver, is an Australian citizen journalist, photojournalist, Videographer and blogger from Melbourne. His pseudonym was adopted in 1997 from a minor character in Ursula Le Guin's novel ""The Dispossessed"". On his website he outlined a reason for adopting this pseudonym: """"By adopting the name of Takver, I pay tribute to Ursula Le Guin and her humanism as a person and her skill and integrity as a writer. It is"
"written on the case: ""Downfall"" by Alan McCombes, ""Tommy Sheridan: From Hero to Zero? A Political Biography"" by Gregor Gall, and ""A Parcel of Rogues"" by Jim Monaghan. On 30 May 2012 Andy Coulson was charged with perjury in relation to this case. In August 2012 Douglas Wight was charged with various offences in relation to the case, and Bob Bird was charged with various offences in relation to the earlier civil case. On 3 June 2015, Coulson was acquitted after the case against him was dismissed by a judge. The cases against Wight and Bird were also dropped without"
"Boris told Dr. Steve Aperen, a former homicide detective who serves as a consultant with the LAPD and FBI, among others, that Milat was responsible for another shooting: that of taxi cab driver Neville Knight, in 1962 after Milat admitted to the crime. After conducting polygraph tests with Boris Milat and Allan Dillon, the man convicted of Knight's shooting, Aperen is convinced that both men are telling the truth and that Ivan Milat did in fact shoot Knight. In May 2016, it was announced that Milat's former home in Eagle Vale, New South Wales, was for sale, and listed on"
"rights implications. An example was the shooting of Trayvon Martin, who on February 26, 2012 was killed by George Zimmerman. Crump represents Martin's family. Crump also represented the family of Alesia Thomas, a 35-year-old single African-American mother who died while in police custody in August 2012. Journalist Chuck Philips reported that during the arrest by female Officer Mary O’Callaghan, Thomas was ""slammed to the ground, handcuffed behind her back, kicked in the groin, hog-tied and stuffed into the back seat of a patrol car, where she died."" Crump demanded that dashboard video of the incident be released, threatening legal action"
"head, the former Sky News executive Nick Pollard. On 19 December 2012, Pollard reported that the """"Newsnight"" investigators were right. They found clear and compelling evidence that Jimmy Savile was a paedophile. The decision by their editor to drop the original investigation was clearly flawed and the way it was taken was wrong"". He said ""Newsnight"" could have broken the story a year before ITV's ""Exposure"". In a public statement afterwards, MacKean described the failure to run the story as a ""breach in our duty to the women who trusted us to reveal that Jimmy Savile was a paedophile"". However,"
"had been properly deputized by Virgil Earp. The public perceptions were controversial concerning the Earp brothers' actions, and especially those of Wyatt. Even today, the brothers have strongly opinionated admirers and detractors. A hand-drawn sketch of the gunfight was made by John Flood with Wyatt Earp's assistance on September 15, 1921; it was sold at auction in October 2010 for $380,000. The map describes the position of a number of witnesses and all of the participants with the exception of Ike Clanton, who fled from the gunfight. In 1952, Victor Clyde Forsythe, a popular painter of desert scenes and cowboy"
"John Englart John Englart (born 1955), pseudonym Takver, is an Australian citizen journalist, photojournalist, Videographer and blogger from Melbourne. His pseudonym was adopted in 1997 from a minor character in Ursula Le Guin's novel ""The Dispossessed"". On his website he outlined a reason for adopting this pseudonym: """"By adopting the name of Takver, I pay tribute to Ursula Le Guin and her humanism as a person and her skill and integrity as a writer. It is also an attempt to articulate that history is made by lots of ordinary people - not just governments, or the rich and famous."""" John"
"had worked on the forensic reconstruction of the victims' faces was to state: ""It's been such a collaborative effort giving these victims back their names; an identity that has been lost for 30-plus years. It's extraordinary that we were able to help the investigation and these families find answers to their questions. I can't sum up how incredible that is."" The remains of Kerry Graham and Francine Trimble were released to the surviving members of their families in February 2016. At a press conference, one family member stated that although both families had ""largely resigned [themselves]"" to the fact foul"
"stab a 12-year-old boy before strangling him to death, and that he himself had been raped by Proctor. The officer leading the investigation, Detective Superintendent Kenny McDonald, said in December 2014 that experienced officers had concluded that the allegations were ""credible and true"". McDonald was later criticised for the statement, and it was retracted. The very public nature of the investigation was modelled on the successful investigations of Operation Yewtree, but no further witnesses came forward. Proctor detailed Nick's claims in public for the first time at a press conference, and also named his fellow accused. In September 2015 the"
"Watergate burglars E. Howard Hunt and Frank Sturgis. Comedian and civil rights activist Dick Gregory helped bring national media attention to the allegations against Hunt and Sturgis in 1975 after obtaining the comparison photographs from Weberman and Canfield. Immediately after obtaining the photographs, Gregory held a press conference that received considerable coverage and his charges were reported in ""Rolling Stone"" and ""Newsweek"". The Rockefeller Commission reported in 1975 that they investigated the allegation that Hunt and Sturgis, on behalf of the CIA, participated in the assassination of Kennedy. The final report of that commission stated that witnesses who testified that"
"2003. The publication in 1999 of the resulting Macpherson Report has been called ""one of the most important moments in the modern history of criminal justice in Britain"". Jack Straw, Home Secretary from 1997 to 2001, commented in 2012 that ordering the inquiry was ""the single most important decision I made as Home Secretary"". In 2010 the case was said to be ""one of the highest-profile unsolved racially motivated murders"". On 18 May 2011, after a further review, it was announced that two of the original suspects, Gary Dobson and David Norris, were to stand trial for the murder in"
"Gregory had anything to do with his own brother's death in 1982. The British newspaper ""The Guardian"" reported there were contradictions in the IRA's version of events. Investigations into Perry's disappearance by ""Sunday World"" reporter Martin O'Hagan prompted IRA interest. Freddie Scappaticci and his unit interrogated Burns, Dignam and Starrs the following year, leading to their deaths. Taped confessions by the three men recorded by Scappaticci were later played to Peter Taylor in his BBC documentary. The IRA gave information to a Sligo priest that led to Perry's body being recovered. Three days later, after nearly two weeks interrogation, the"
"out on parole at the time, and told him that Shermantine was planning to disclose the location of the murder victims on Herzog's property in Linden. Herzog committed suicide on January 16, 2012, shortly after their phone conversation; while Padilla's efforts in the case eventually led to the recovery of multiple victims. In 2004 Val Kilmer narrated a made for TV documentary about his life as a bounty hunter on the National Geographic channel, and a pair of BBC filmmakers shot a documentary about him as well. In 2008, along with Rob Dick, he appeared in four TV movies about"
"the case, Mitchell, Bradford and the three students discovered the informant's identity. Mr. X was revealed to be Maynard King, a highway patrolman who revealed the location of the civil rights workers' bodies to FBI Agent Joseph Sullivan. In 2005, one perpetrator, Edgar Ray Killen, was charged for his part in the crimes. He was convicted of three counts of manslaughter, and received a 60-year sentence. Killen died in prison on January 11, 2018. In 1985, screenwriter Chris Gerolmo discovered an article that excerpted a chapter from the book ""Inside Hoover's F.B.I."", which chronicled the FBI's investigation into the murders"
"eventually found its way into an edition of the programme. The interview was posted on the World Wide Web as the 2003 allegations against Scappaticci surfaced. Scappaticci appears to give intimate details of the modus operandi of the IRA's Northern Command, indicated some of his previous involvement in the organisation and alleges, amongst other things, that Martin McGuinness was involved in the death of Frank Hegarty – an IRA volunteer who had been killed as an informer by the IRA in 1986. It has since been alleged that Scappaticci knew the intimate details of Hegarty's killing because, as part of"
"of the British aid worker Linda Norgrove concluded that Norgrove was accidentally killed by a grenade thrown by a member of Seal Team Six. Navy SEALs did not immediately notify senior officers about throwing the grenade; this breached military law, and a number of sailors were disciplined. On June 4, 2017, US Green Beret Staff Sergeant Logan Melgar was found murdered by strangulation in Mali, in the US embassy's housing he shared with a few other Special Operations members on duty in Mali. While no one is charged with the homicide, two unnamed members of DEVGRU who shortly after the"
"Committee who have done this thing upon such slight and wholly discredited testimony may now consult their actions and their consciences. On October 20, 1948, W. Marvin Smith, a U.S. Department of Justice attorney and notary with whom Alger Hiss had worked, was found dead in the southwest stairwell of the (then) seven-story Justice building. Just after Laurence Duggan's death, the Associated Press reported: The widow of W. Marvin Smith, justice department employee who died in a five story plunge 2 months ago, expressed belief today that his death was simply an accident.<br>She told a reporter she feels certain it"
"A particular focus of these efforts has been Mary Bregovy, who died in 1934, although her death came in an automobile accident in the downtown Chicago Loop Chicago author Ursula Bielski in 1999 documented a possible connection to Anna ""Marija"" Norkus, who died in a 1927 auto accident while on her way home from the Oh Henry Ballroom, a theory which has gained popularity in recent years. The Resurrection Mary story is a type of vanishing hitchhiker story, a type of folklore that is known from many cultures. On his 1996 album ""The Artful Dodger"", singer/songwriter Ian Hunter included the"
"School shooting in 2012 and the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in 2018 being false flag operations engineered by gun control advocates. In particular, he has stated that ""no one died"" in Sandy Hook and that Stoneman Douglas survivor David Hogg was a crisis actor. Claims made in support of these theories have been proven false. In March 2018, six families of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting as well as an FBI agent who responded to the attack filed a defamation lawsuit against Jones for his role in spreading conspiracy theories about the shooting. In January 2013,"
"she had chosen to omit that in her report. In May 2012 the review and historic files about Peter Ball were given to the Sussex Police. Ann Lawrence from the Minister and Clergy Sexual Abuse Survivors organisation described the opening of the police investigation as ""a major first step"" for the Church of England. Abuse victim Neil Todd, who later died by suicide, said that: Ball and another priest, Vickery House, were arrested in November 2012. Sussex Police said Ball was released the same day on medical advice. The police said they intended to interview Ball at a later date."
"live broadcast for some of the proceedings. Testimony from firearms officers will remain entirely anonymous. Members of the inquest jury may also be kept anonymous. Inquest hearings began on 16 September 2013. The jury began with a visit to the street in Tottenham where Duggan was killed in 2011. Police maintained that Duggan was a gang member linked to violent crime. ""As well as gun crime, he was involved in supply of class A drugs and possession of ammunition"", said Detective Inspector Mick Foote. Foote denied making the claim that Duggan had fired at police, saying he was ""surprised"" that"
"support and offering sympathy to the families of the other victims. They also said that his organs would be donated as he had wished. A witness, Nate Mueller, said that King had recently started dating Lane's former girlfriend. Other student witnesses said that it appeared as if Lane was specifically aiming for King, indicating that he was the first to be shot. The students stated that King had previously threatened to beat Lane up. They told reporters that Lane had taken up weightlifting with the intention of fighting King. On February 28, 2012, it was reported that Demetrius Hewlin, the"
"pursuit. (The British Army officially listed Slater as a member of the Parachute Regiment, however, an obituary appeared in the SAS magazine, ""Mars & Minerva"", stating that Slater was a member of 7 Troop (Free Fall) 'B' Squadron of the SAS). In 2002 a controversy occurred when a memorial to Mac Giolla Bhrighde, Fleming and Joe MacManus was sited close to the place where Protestant workmen William Hassard and Frederick Love were murdered by the IRA in 1988. A Sinn Féin spokesman stated that ""The families of Ciaran Fleming, Joseph McManus and Antoine Mac Giolla Bhrighde, the three IRA men"