David Migoya

Colorado’s seven Supreme Court justices have largely complied with state laws requiring them to annually disclose their financial holdings and that of their spouses and family.

Editor’s note: This is the second in a three-part series examining Colorado’s $110 million charitable gaming industry. Howard Geller told police that Big Dog wanted Geller to get some people and head to Akron, Colo., so he hopped into his Dodge Durango along with his buddy, Cricket, and a woman he knew and off they […]

Colorado’s charitable gaming laws succinctly prohibit state nonprofits from paying or remunerating volunteers who work the bingo and raffle games they host.  That doesn’t seem to stop them.  The Denver Gazette identified at least three organizations – all of them related to youth sports – that funnel charitable gaming proceeds to the financial benefit of […]

A summary of the findings of senior investigative reporter David Migoya’s three-month probe into the inner workings of the state’s $110 million charitable gaming world:

The latest iteration of Colorado’s long-defunct advisory board for charitable gaming met Friday for the first time since legislators revived it more than 18 months ago. The Charitable Gaming Board did little more than elect its chairman, Maytham Alshadood, the director of business licensing for the Secretary of State’s Office, and its vice chairperson, Michelle […]

Each day, Mike Stapleton wakes up owing the state of Colorado another $1,550. By the end of each week, Stapleton’s debt for not filing nearly three dozen campaign finance reports dating to April 2018 will have grown by nearly $11,000. As of Dec. 8, Stapleton and his campaign – The Committee to Elect Michael Stapleton […]

Colorado’s freshman board overseeing the state’s $110 million charitable gaming industry last week created a committee to tackle issues raised in a Denver Gazette investigation that exposed, among other issues, poor supervision and illegal operators. The Colorado Charitable Gaming Board, in only its second meeting since the Denver Gazette series ran in October, unanimously formed […]

Colorado’s freshman board overseeing the state’s $110 million charitable gaming industry last week created a committee to tackle issues raised in a Denver Gazette investigation that exposed, among other issues, poor supervision and illegal operators. The Colorado Charitable Gaming Board, in only its second meeting since the Denver Gazette series ran in October, unanimously formed […]

The agency overseeing Colorado’s federal Medicaid program has suspended an Aurora home-health agency that is the focus of an investigation into an enterprise that lured dozens of homeless people with promises of free housing and cash and reaped tens of millions of dollars in Medicaid reimbursements. Officials said it has stopped paying Medicaid claims filed […]

Two regional Seventh-day Adventist conferences that oversee the activities of its member churches across several states have launched inquiries into an Aurora-based congregation tied to a Medicaid operation that exploited the homeless. The Rocky Mountain Conference and the Central States Conference of the Seventh-day Adventist church — based in Denver and Kansas City, Kansas, respectively, […]