Wayne Dolcefino

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name = Wayne Dolcefino


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birth_date = March 24, 1967
birth_place = Brooklyn, New York
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occupation = investigative news reporter
employer = KTRK channel 13 (ABC TV), Houston, Texas
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Wayne Dolcefino (1967- ) is an Emmy award winning news reporter for KTRK-TV ABC-13 in Houston, Texas, USAcite web | title = Bio info on Wayne Dolcefino, from the 'Meet The Team' web site of ABC TV channel 13 KTRK | url = http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/bio?section=ontv/stationinfo/bios&id=3251602 | accessdate = 2008-08-06 ] cite web | title = Bio info on Wayne Dolcefino, from the ("Previous Speakers") web page of the (Houston) Assoc. of Certified Fraud Examiners | url = http://www.cfehouston.org/news/Speakers/speaker_list.htm#Dolcefino | accessdate = 2008-08-06 ] . As the investigative reporter for "13 Undercover," he is responsible for a number of civic and consumer investigations.

Dolcefino and his employer have been the target of various lawsuits. A $5.5 million verdict for libel (Sylvester Turner v. KTRK Television; 1996)cite web | date = June 30, 1997 | author = WALTER GOODMAN | title = (newspaper article mentions a "Court TV" program that "focuses on a libel case brought by Sylvester Turner, a Houston politician, against the television station KTRK and its star reporter, Wayne Dolcefino") | publisher = N Y Times | url = http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9800E5D91E31F933A05755C0A961958260 | accessdate = 2008-08-06 ] was subsequently overturned by a court of appeals, and that appeals-court decision was upheld by the Texas Supreme Court.cite web | author = David McHam | title = "Law & The Media in Texas: Handbook for Journalists" (the section -- headed "Sylvester Turner v. KTRK Television" -- about the case "Turner v. KTRK Television, Inc. and Wayne Dolcefino, 38 S.W.2d 103 (2000)") | publisher = Texas Press Association, Texas Daily Newspaper Association, and Texas Association of Broadcasters (archived version of 2005-11-11) | url = http://web.archive.org/web/20051110023142/http://www.texaspress.com/Lawpress/LawMedia/Libel/TexasLibelCases.htm]

Dolcefino has also helped bring to light malfeasance and wrongdoings within tax paid positions.

Dolcefino continues investigative work with KTRK-TV.

Life and work

Wayne Dolcefino was born on March 24, 1957 in Brooklyn, New York.cite web
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Wayne Dolcefino joined the KTRK-TV television station and 13 Eyewitness News in December 1985.cite web
title=Grim task begins in Bolivar
author=Wayne Dolcefino, Investigative Reporter
publisher=KTRK-TV
date=2008-09-17 | accessdate=2008-09-20
url=http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=weather/hurricane&id=6393943]

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