Web Extra: The end of the Sundquist contracts case -- which was prompted by NewsChannel 5's "Friends in High Places" investigation -- leaves plenty of unanswered questions.More>>
As the battle over Tennessee's budget raged, thousands of Tennesseans questioned whether Gov. Don Sundquist was listening. But getting the governor's ear hasn't been a problem for some of the state's biggest businesses.more>>
As Don Sundquist took the helm of state government, he promised Tennesseans an era of expanding opportunity. But for some of his closest supporters, those opportunities would come right from the state's treasury.more>>
NewsChannel 5 Investigates: Friends in High Places
Townsend, Tennessee calls itself "the peaceful side of the Smokies." But these days that tranquility has been shattered by a controversy over a parking lot.more>>
NewsChannel 5 Investigates: Friends in High Places
Our NewsChannel 5 investigation exposed how some of the governor's closest friends were getting millions of your tax dollars. Now, it turns out some folks in state government raised questions about one of those contracts, long before it was ever signed.more>>
NewsChannel 5 Investigates: Friends in High Places
Would you give to a charity that wasn't legally allowed to solicit money? If you're a Tennessee taxpayer, you already have. In fact, you've given hundreds of thousands of dollars.more>>
NewsChannel 5 Investigates: Friends in High Places
When state lawmakers recently passed the largest tax increase in Tennessee history, they said TennCare was partly to blame. Now, a NewsChannel 5 investigation has discovered that a key member of Gov. Don Sundquist's Cabinet may have quietly profited from the state's health insurance program.more>>
NewsChannel 5 Investigates: Friends in High Places
Since last year's terrorist attacks, a lot of companies have tried to make money off of homeland security. But our NewsChannel 5 investigation discovered that, here in Tennessee, some friends of Gov. Don Sundquist were among the first in line.more>>
NewsChannel 5 Investigates: Friends in High Places
There's been a major development in our investigation of insider contracts within the Sundquist administration. NewsChannel 5 has learned those contracts are now the subject of a joint federal and statemore>>
NewsChannel 5 Investigates: Friends in High Places
For weeks, the governor's office had dismissed the joint FBI-TBI investigation of state contracts as a "routine review." Tuesday, that investigation took a not-so-routine turn.more>>
NewsChannel 5 Investigates: Friends in High Places
In January 2001, Gov. Don Sundquist unveiled what was, by all accounts, a noble plan. He asked state lawmakers to approve a $100 million statewide reading initiative.more>>
NewsChannel 5 Investigates: Friends in High Places
Our NewsChannel 5 investigation first put the spotlight on state contracts handed to friends of the governor... friends like John Stamps and Al Ganier. Yet, Gov. Don Sundquist has repeatedly dodged questions.more>>
NewsChannel 5 Investigates: Friends in High Places
There are new details about how John Stamps -- a man at the center of our Friends in High Places investigation -- may have profited off his relationship with the governor.more>>
NewsChannel 5 Investigates: Friends in High Places
Federal and state agents raided a Nashville company with close ties to the governor. It marked what may be the most dramatic development yet in the probe investigation of alleged insider contracts handed out by the Sundquist administration.more>>
NewsChannel 5 Investigates: Friends in High Places
As Gov. Don Sundquist prepares to leave office, there are new questions about how his administration spent your tax money. Among the questions: did state officials create phony documents to cover up a questionable expenditure?more>>
NewsChannel 5 Investigates: Friends in High Places
The Bredesen administration is "cooperating fully" with investigators looking into contracts given out by the Sundquist administration, Gov. Phil Bredesen's press secretary confirms. That includes providing e-mail to and from former Gov. Don Sundquist himself. more>>
NewsChannel 5 Investigates: Friends in High Places
How did friends of former Gov. Don Sundquist land millions of dollars in state contracts? It's a question that two former members of Sundquist's Cabinet were forced to answer before a federal grand jury Wednesday. more>>
NewsChannel 5 Investigates: Friends in High Places
There's a major new development in our Friends in High Places investigation of state contracts. A man who was just one step below Gov. Don Sundquist was called before a federal grand jury.more>>
NewsChannel 5 Investigates: Friends in High Places
A new state audit confirms the Sundquist administration's questionable use of economic development funds. Those questions were first raised by our Friends in High Places investigation.more>>
NewsChannel 5 Investigates: Friends in High Places
Following are excerpts from e-mail messages recovered from an assistant to the governor and others, in response to a federal grand jury subpoena. more>>
NewsChannel 5 Investigates: Friends in High Places
They thought their e-mail exchanges were secret. But now tens of thousands of messages from the Sundquist administration have been recovered and turned over to a federal grand jury. more>>
NewsChannel 5 Investigates: Friends in High Places
A federal grand jury has indicted a former Sundquist administration official on public corruption charges. It's the first indictment from our Friends in High Places investigation of insider contracts.more>>
NewsChannel 5 Investigates: Friends in High Places
A federal grand jury has turned up the heat on the former Sundquist administration. Wednesday, a parade of high-level witnesses appeared before the grand jury that's investigating alleged insider contracts given to friends of former Gov. Don Sundquist.more>>
NewsChannel 5 Investigates: Friends in High Places
A federal criminal investigation is targeting insider contracts given to friends of former Gov. Don Sundquist. Now, Sundquist's own papers are providing a look into the world of friends and favors that may be behind those allegation.more>>
NewsChannel 5 Investigates: Friends in High Places
Now, for the first time, Sundquist's officials papers -- many in the former governor's own handwriting -- reveal exactly how much of his administration's efforts were aimed at helping a campaign supporter.more>>
NewsChannel 5 Investigates: Friends in High Places
Tuesday, a high ranking state official was called before a federal grand jury -- and he may be pointing the finger toward those close to former Gov. Don Sundquist.more>>
NewsChannel 5 Investigates: Friends in High Places
A key piece of evidence uncovered in our "Friends in High Places" investigation of insider state contracts is missing. It's a tape that may help link a questionable contract directly to the office of former Gov. Don Sundquist.more>>
NewsChannel 5 Investigates: Friends in High Places
Was a former Sundquist administration official a conniving person who betrayed the public trust or just a pawn of those who had friends in high places? Those were the contrasting images presented to a Nashville federal court jury as the first case from our investigation of insider contracts went to trial.more>>
NewsChannel 5 Investigates: Friends in High Places
The first manager of a company that got a questionable state contract says he feared its owners had cashed in on their friends in high places. That was the testimony that began day three of the fraud trial of Sundquist appointee Joanna Ediger.more>>
NewsChannel 5 Investigates: Friends in High Places
The state has rested in the first case to come out of our Friends in High Places investigation of state contracts. Former Sunquist official Joanna Ediger is charged with trying to rig a big state contract.more>>
NewsChannel 5 Investigates: Friends in High Places
Did she act on her own out of greed or was she just an innocent pawn following orders? That's the key question before jurors as they consider federal corruption charges against a former Sundquist administration official.more>>
NewsChannel 5 Investigates: Friends in High Places
The criminal investigation prompted by our own Friends in High Places investigation of state contracts is back in high gear. Wednesday, a federal grand jury heard from a cousin of former Gov. Don Sundquist.more>>
NewsChannel 5 Investigates: Friends in High Places
Former Sundquist administration official Joanna Ediger could soon be heading to prison on federal corruption charges. But, in a once-secret FBI tape, Ediger insisted she wasn't taking the investigation seriously.more>>
NewsChannel 5 Investigates: Friends in High Places
A federal grand jury continued to demand answers from people with ties to former Gov. Don Sundquist. Among them: another former member of Sundquist's cabinet and a son of a close Sundquist friend.more>>
NewsChannel 5 Investigates: Friends in High Places
A federal grand jury has indicted a close Sundquist friend for allegedly obstructing a state contracts investigation, and another friend of the governor is now talking to investigators. It's the second indictment from our "Friends in High Places" investigation.more>>
NewsChannel 5 Investigates: Friends in High Places
Al Ganier, a friend of former Gov. Don Sundquist, is now awaiting trial on federal obstruction of justice charges. Now, NewsChannel 5 has obtained a confidential memo that lays out the case against Ganier.more>>
NewsChannel 5 Investigates: Friends in High Places
There's even more trouble for a friend of former Gov. Don Sundquist. It's the latest in our Friends in High Places investigation of insider state contracts. This time, the trouble comes in the form of new evidence.more>>
NewsChannel 5 Investigates: Friends in High Places
The first person indicted from our Friends in High Places investigation of state contracts is headed to prison. A federal judge sentenced former Sundquist official Joanna Ediger to three years behind bars.more>>
NewsChannel 5 Investigates: Friends in High Places
New indictments were returned Wednesday against two of former Gov. Don Sundquist's closest friends. It's the latest round of charges from our Friends in High Places investigation.more>>
NewsChannel 5 Investigates: Friends in High Places
It was a big state contract with a friend of Tennessee's last governor. Now, a NewsChannel 5 investigation has uncovered questions about what happened to that contract under the current governor.more>>
NewsChannel 5 Investigates: Friends in High Places
NewsChannel 5 has learned that John Stamps -- one of former Gov. Don Sundquist's closest friends -- is prepared to plead guilty to federal criminal charges.more>>
NewsChannel 5 Investigates: Friends in High Places
Prosecutors are now waiting to see where a close friend of former Gov. Don Sundquist might lead them next. This comes after John Stamps pleaded guilty to federal criminal charges.more>>
Prosecutors are now waiting to see where a close friend of former Gov. Don Sundquist might lead them next. This comes after John Stamps pleaded guilty to federal criminal charges.more>>
NewsChannel 5 Investigates: Friends in High Places
A trial for a friend of former Gov. Don Sundquist, beginning Tuesday, could provide dramatic new evidence about how friends of Tennessee's last governor snagged hundreds of millions of dollars of your tax money.more>>
NewsChannel 5 Investigates: Friends in High Places
Just as a friend of former Gov. Don Sundquist prepared to face a jury, a fight over some newly discovered evidence brought Al Ganier's trial to a screeching halt.more>>
NewsChannel 5 Investigates: Friends in High Places
He once enjoyed access to the highest reaches of Tennessee state government, and your tax dollars. But today, John Stamps, a close friend of former Gov. Don Sundquist, will find out how much time he'll spend in federal prison.more>>
NewsChannel 5 Investigates: Friends in High Places
A company started by a friend of former governor Don Sundquist has lost its multimillion-dollar contract to provide Internet services to Tennessee schools.more>>
NewsChannel 5 Investigates: Friends in High Places
The Bush administration is considering putting a former Sundquist insider in charge of the U.S. Attorney's Office that's been investigating the former governor's contracts.more>>
A close friend of former Gov. Don Sundquist has pleaded guilty to a federal misdemeanor charge, stemming the investigation of state contracts. (Read agreement.)more>>
The sentencing of a longtime friend of former Gov. Don Sundquist effectively ends the five-year investigation into state contracts. But there are hints that there could be a new chapter yet to unfold.more>>
Saturday, May 25 2013 11:12 AM EDT2013-05-25 15:12:54 GMT
The state asked a judge to freeze the assets and personal accounts of the owners of HRC Medical and their wives, as well as the finances of the former HRC clinics.more>>
The state asked a judge to freeze the assets and personal accounts of the owners of HRC Medical and their wives, as well as the finances of the former HRC clinics.more>>
Friday, May 17 2013 8:00 PM EDT2013-05-18 00:00:10 GMT
Stunning new allegations have been made against the former owners of HRC Medical which once claimed to be the world's largest hormone replacement company.more>>
Stunning new allegations have been made against the former owners of HRC Medical which once claimed to be the world's largest hormone replacement company.more>>
