Protected Witness
A Six-Part Series by Bill Moushey
(c) Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, May 26-31, 1996
Note: The "Protected Witness" series is copyrighted
and cannot be disseminated without permission from the publisher, the Pittsburgh
Post-Gazette.
Posted June 15, 1996
About the author
Bill Moushey has been an investigative reporter for the Post-Gazette
since 1985. His stories included uncovering corruption on the Supreme Court
of Pennsylvania and revealing dreadful health care conditions in the state
prison system. A native of Canton, Ohio, Moushey is a 1972 journalism graduate
of Kent State University. Before joining the PG, he was an investigative
reporter at WPXI-TV and editor of Pittsburgher Magazine. His Post-Gazette
reports have won numerous national and local awards, including honorable
mention in the Newspaper Guild's Heywood Broun award for reporting on society's
underprivileged.