The Herald's "I-Team Exclusive"

As reported a week ago by Herald Watch, TMH has produced an investigative series on corruption uncovered in a Miami-Dade anti-poverty program.

Calling it Poverty Peddlers, the Herald is promoting the investigation as a "Miami Herald I-Team Exclusive" and has created a web sitelet at Herald.com:

Poverty Peddlers is the continuation of a Miami Herald series published in June that revealed sweeping problems at a celebrated biopharmaceutical park proposed in Liberty City...

To report the stories, reporters reviewed more than 300 resolution files from [the Miami-Dade Empowerment Trust], culling through thousands of pages of memos, correspondence, receipts and contracts to track the trust's efforts in combating poverty.

The reporters also examined dozens of lawsuits and bankruptcy cases, property records, nonprofit tax filings from the Internal Revenue Service and thousands of documents from other county agencies, including the Office of Community and Economic Development.

Here's a small excerpt of a sub-headline showing the great care they took on this.

Projects produce few jobs
Created to fight poverty, the Miami-Dade Empowerment Trust squandered millioins [sic] of dollars on insider deals, pet projects and bad loans.

More on Poverty Peddlers coming soon.

Coming soon from the Herald

A source close to the Herald has informed Herald Watch that next Sunday The Miami Herald will a launch a 4-part investigative series about government monies that were distributed in a program for the benefit of the African-American community in Miami during the Clinton years. It will be reported that much of the money was diverted from the small companies that it was intended to help to larger corporations who did not live up to the conditions of the program. The investigation will supposedly implicate some preachers in the African American community and a source familiar with the matter says that she/he would not be surprised to see indictments coming down as a result of the investigation.