Scott Friedman Biography
Scott Friedman is an American journalist working as a Senior Investigative Reporter for NBC Investigates in KXAS-TV.
He leads the team that exposes critical safety concerns, uncovers government waste and holds officials accountable. His work has been featured on NBC Nightly News and Today on NBC. He attended the University of Notre Dame.
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Scott Friedman is Senior Investigative Reporter at KXAS-TV the NBC claimed TV channel in Dallas-Fort Worth, USA. Scott drives the station’s “NBC 5 Investigates” group that uncovered basic wellbeing concerns, reveals government waste and considers authorities responsible.
His analytical detailing has been perceived with a portion of broadcasting’s top national distinctions including a Peabody Award, five national Edward R. Murrow Awards, an Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) grant, two national SPJ Sigma Delta Chi Awards and a national News and Documentary Emmy for the remarkable provincial insightful report.
Scott’s examinations have additionally been included on NBC Nightly News and Today on NBC. Scott’s Peabody Award-winning examination of money related issues at Dallas County Schools (DCS) uncovered a trap of defilement, amazing monetary fumble, concealed individual connections and irreconcilable circumstances inside an organization that moved a huge number of youngsters to class every day.
The Texas Legislature, representative and voters acted quickly to close DCS and the director who ran the organization conceded to tolerating $3 million of fixes and kickbacks in return for government contracts.
For over a year, Scott’s group examined care for harmed, dynamic obligation U.S. Armed force warriors, in association with The Dallas Morning News. The arrangement revealed many grievances from harmed troops depicting abuse, badgering, verbal maltreatment and an absence of consideration from commandants of U.S. Armed force Warrior Transition Units (WTUs).
Inside days of the station’s first reports, the U.S. Armed force requested new preparing for administrators of each of the 25 WTUs around the world, went for better treating harmed troops with nobility and regard. The U.S. House Armed Services Committee additionally requested a Government Accountability Office (GAO) examination.
Scott’s multi month-long examination of accidents and wounds brought about by cops utilizing dashboard mounted PCs while driving prompted changes in neighborhood police office arrangements, and progressed toward becoming preparing material for law authorization offices the nation over.
Scott joined KXAS-TV in 2006 announcing and later tying down the station’s weekday morning broadcast, “NBC 5 Today.” In 2012, he helped dispatch “NBC 5 Investigates”. Already Scott was an analytical journalist and anchorperson at WTMJ-TV (NBC) in Milwaukee and a columnist at WNDU-TV (NBC) in South Bend, Indiana.
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Senior Investigative Reporter
Company Name NBCUniversal Media, LLC
Dates Employed May 2006 – Present
Employment Duration 13 yrs 5 mos
Investigative Reporter / News Anchor
Company Name Journal Broadcast Group (a division of Journal Communications)
Dates Employed Feb 1996 – May 2006
Employment Duration 10 yrs 4 mos
Location WTMJ-TV (NBC) Milwaukee
Reporter/Producer
Company Name WNDU-TV
Dates Employed May 1994 – Feb 1996
Employment Duration 1 yrs 10 mos
Location South Bend, Indiana Area
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Even After Stealing From the Public, Ex-School Officials Keep Their Pensions
Rick Sorrells is a disgraced former school administrator, an admitted criminal, a soon-to-be resident of the federal prison system and, despite all of that, he is eligible to receive his full state pension.
Sorrells, who admitted taking $3 million in bribes in a scandal that destroyed the agency he once led, is facing a maximum 10 years behind bars for wire fraud.
But his pension is protected by Texas laws that allow the benefits to stay in place even if serious financial crimes have been committed, NBC 5 Investigates has learned.
That is different from other parts of the country — New York City, California, Oklahoma, Louisiana for example — where officials said pensions are stripped from school administrators who cheat taxpayers.
The Teacher Retirement System of Texas confirmed that Sorrells is a “retiree,” meaning he is already receiving his pension.
Under privacy rules, the TRS cannot release the amount Sorrells is currently receiving.
However, using the TRS pension formula, NBC 5 Investigates did the math and found that Sorrells — who made more than $200,000 a year as superintendent of Dallas County Schools — is likely eligible to receive a yearly pension of about $60,000.
The TRS confirmed that other school administrators continue to receive pensions even after committing serious crimes.
That includes Carolyn Foster, former chief financial officer for the Grand Prairie Independent School District, who was sentenced last year to three years in federal prison for embezzling $600,000 of taxpayer money.
Some of the cash was delivered to her in armored cars.
The federal judge who sentenced her made note of that and told her it was “…one of the worst cases, with the most amount of money I’ve seen, from a person in a position of trust.”
The TRS also confirmed former El Paso school superintendent Lorenzo Garcia continues to receive a pension, despite serving time in federal prison for manipulating student test scores which increased his performance bonus.
Garcia, who also steered a $450,000 contract to his girlfriend’s company, receives a pension of about $5,000 a month, court records show.
Foster declined an interview request when reached in prison by NBC 5 Investigates, and Garcia’s lawyer said his client would have nothing to say.
“They are violating every fiduciary responsibility, every moral responsibility, they have. And they should not be rewarded at the end of all of this with a pension,” said state Sen. Paul Bettencourt, a Houston Republican.
During the last legislative session, Bettencourt helped pass a law that takes pensions from teachers convicted of sexual misconduct with students.
He said the same should happen to school administrators who swindle taxpayers.
“If you steal the money of this magnitude from the state — $600,000 embezzlement or take bribes of $3 million — you (should be) on your own,” Bettencourt said.
But Dallas lawyer Robert Clark, who is representing Sorrells in a civil case involving the financial crash of Dallas County Schools, said it would take a “glacial change in our society” to take pensions away from people like his client.
Clark said Sorrells is sorry for what happened but remains entitled to his pension because he put money into it each time he received his paychecks as superintendent of DCS while taxpayers only provided matching contributions.
Taking away a pension would also punish other people more than the person who committed the crime, the lawyer said.
“Well, if somebody has a wife and children, (with) expenses, do we want as a society… do we want the people to be on welfare? Do we want them to be on the public dole?” Clark said.
But former employees at DCS told NBC 5 Investigates they were disgusted that Sorrells continued to receive a pension, even though the crime he committed cost them their jobs and cut off the pensions they had hoped for.
“Sickening,” said Tim Jones, director of projects who had worked for DCS for 20 years.