A former Anadarko senior reservoir engineer, who relocated to Colorado after becoming a whistleblower, contends in federal court documents that the executives fraudulently inflated the value of one of the firm's oil fields.
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ONGOING SERIES: CRIMINAL INJUSTICE
Colorado Springs-based USA Taekwondo executives took no action against a star coach who allegedly raped and sexually abused a teenage national champion, telling the girl they could not help her because the rapes took place overseas during tournaments, a lawsuit filed Tuesday states.
Members of a state board that writes the rules for how Colorado sex offenders are supervised voted on policy revisions that benefited their firms, which held state contracts worth millions of dollars annually, according to a scathing performance audit the state auditor released Tuesday.
Officials in then Gov. John Hickenlooper’s administration helped an influential Colorado Springs nonprofit privately lobby a member of the state mining board to kill plans for a granite quarry, setting up a secret briefing that legal experts described as a potential violation of state law and that proponents of the quarry believe doomed their chances at success.
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Evan Wyloge
Evan Wyloge is a data/investigative reporter at The Colorado Springs Gazette, focused on accountability reporting of statewide importance. Previously, he worked for The Desert Sun/USA Today Network, the Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting and the Arizona Capitol Times. He has contributed to The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Center for Public Integrity, Huffington Post, Mashable, The Sydney Daily Telegraph, France24, NCSL State Legislatures Magazine and others. He earned a degree in political science and French from Northern Arizona University and a master’s degree in journalism from Arizona State University. Contact Evan at evan.wyloge@gazette.com
Christopher Osher
Christopher Osher is a senior investigative reporter and editor for Colorado Watch. His work as an investigative reporter has regularly spurred reform and meaningful change in Colorado in the form of criminal investigations and criminal charges, new laws and regulations, resignations and legislative initiatives. He formerly was an investigative reporter at The Denver Post and worked at newspapers in Virginia, Iowa, Ohio, Arkansas and Pennsylvania before arriving in Denver in 2005. He is a graduate of the University of Arkansas, where he learned under the guidance of Roy Reed, who covered the civil rights movement for The New York Times. His work has garnered numerous state, regional and national awards, including a 2012 selection as the best in government reporting by Governing magazine, a 3rd place National Headliner award in 2013, a Best in the West investigative reporting award in 2013 and a 3rd place public service award from the National Society of Professional Journalists in 2011. He also was a leading contributor to work that was a 2012 finalist for an IRE (Investigative Reporters and Editors) Freedom of Information award for “Failed to Death,” a series of stories exposing the deaths of Colorado children under the watch of the state’s child protective system. Contact Christopher at chris.osher@gazette.com