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Miami Herald - November 19, 2008
The four-part series, "South Florida's Medicare Racket," uncovered how medical-equipment companies and HIV clinics across the region have defrauded taxpayers out of billions of dollars.
The six-month investigation, edited by Julie Knipe Brown and featuring video and photographs by Lilly Echeverria, found the corruption had spun out of control during the past decade with little effort by Medicare regulators to stop it -- not only in South Florida but across the nation.
Weaver accepted the award Tuesday at the organization's national conference in Phoenix. The award includes a $2,500 prize, which Weaver has donated to charity.
Weaver, who has been with The Miami Herald for the past nine years, was a member of the paper's 2001 Pulitzer Prize-winning team that covered the federal raid to capture Elian Gonzalez, a 6-year-old Cuban boy at the center of a custody dispute between his Miami relatives and his father in Cuba.
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