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Simone Aponte

Simone Aponte

Vice President & News Director at KTVU-TV

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  • English
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  • General Assignment News

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2 Investigates: Inmate's death at Santa Rita jail raises questions about private medical company

The private company that provides medical services to inmates at Santa Rita jail is under the microscope after an inmate died in custody, despite months of complaints about his persistent breathing problem.2 Investigates also discovered that <a href=“http://www.corizonhealth.com/” target=“_blank”>Corizon Correctional Healthcare</a> has faced a string of lawsuits, canceled contracts, state investigations, and complaints from across the country in the last several years. The company’s track record…
about 9 years ago
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2 Investigates: Bay area window customers didn't get what they paid...

<strong>OAKLAND (KTVU) </strong>-- 2 Investigates has discovered that at least a dozen customers of a local window company who purchased high-efficiency windows “didn’t get what they paid for,” according to a former employee.KTVU obtained contracts from at least a dozen customers all across the Bay Area who purchased Low E3 glass from Anamar Window and contractor Clear Vision Windows, based in Hayward. But former employee Mark Torres claims that many customers didn’t actually get Low E3 glass fo…
about 9 years ago
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Video shows conditions inside Ghost Ship warehouse before fatal Oak...

OAKLAND (KTVU) -- Video taken by a former tenant of the Oakland Ghost Ship warehouse shows conditions inside the artists’ collective and serious safety risks, including propane tanks, frayed wiring, and RVs where people were living.Shelley Mack says she rented an RV at the warehouse two years ago as an artist paying $565 a month in rent to manager Derick Ion.Video she took with her cell phone shows propane tanks in a bathroom used to heat shower water. In photos you can also see a hairdryer plug…
almost 9 years ago
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BART janitor's $270K pay raises questions: 2 Investigates

<strong>SAN FRANCISCO (KTVU)</strong> -- A BART janitor who earned more than a quarter million dollars in salary, overtime, and benefits made headlines for his eye-popping pay.But now 2 Investigates has uncovered some serious questions about how he earned all that money and why supervisors haven’t taken a closer look.The janitor, Liang Zhao Zhang, earned $57,945 in base pay in 2015 for cleaning San Francisco’s Powell Street station. But according to <a href=“http://transparentcalifornia.com/sala…
almost 9 years ago
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Listen: ‘Permit Patty' calls 911 on little girl, despite claiming s...

A San Francisco woman whom the internet nicknamed “Permit Patty” lied when she said that she only pretended to call police on an 8-year-old-girl selling bottled water without a permit in front of her house. KTVU has obtained the 911 call in which Ettel is caught on tape.
over 7 years ago
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2 Investigates obtains 'BBQ Becky's' viral 911 calls

KTVU has obtained the 911 audio from an incident at Lake Merritt that erupted into a national controversy involving a white woman -- since nicknamed “BBQ Becky” -- calling police on a two African-American men using a charcoal grill.
over 7 years ago
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2 Investigates' reports lead to felony charges for medical van company

Four years after 2 Investigates first uncovered an East Bay medical transport company billing the state for rides in uninsured, unregistered, and unsafe vans, the owners of Med Express Transportation are finally being charged with insurance fraud, grand theft, and money laundering.
over 6 years ago
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California's daycare inspection records are a maze for parents to n...

Parents looking for safe and reliable childcare find California’s record keeping system confusing and difficult to access. KTVU uncovered records of thousands of serious injuries at daycare centers that were not available to parents online.
about 6 years ago
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Alameda Co. Sheriff faces state audit over jail conditions, spendin...

State auditors are will examine spending and conditions at Alameda County jails after local officials’ “refusal” to open an audit into the sheriff’s department, despite multiple calls for stronger oversight from local legislators and inmates’ rights activists.
almost 6 years ago
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A look at the people killed by Vallejo police since 2010

None of the officers have been charged criminally for any of these shootings in the last decade, as each case was deemed justified. Yet, many of these men’s families say that police have acted with excessive force and have given false accounts about why they felt the need to shoot and kill their loved ones.
over 5 years ago
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Empyrean Towers in Oakland a step closer to rehab: 2 Investigates

More than two years after 2 Investigates first exposed unsanitary and unsafe conditions at the trouble Empyrean Towers hotel in Oakland, the property is now one step closer to being rehabilitated.
almost 5 years ago