Tim Minton

Investigative Reporter

Updated 11:59 PM EST, Tue, Jul 28, 2009

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News 4 New York correspondent Tim Minton, who joined WNBC in 1998, has been honored with 18 Emmy Awards and other local and national recognition for investigative reporting.

Minton investigated a series of construction accidents in New York City that led to the resignation in April 2008 of the buildings commissioner. In 2006, he reported on a facility applying electric shocks to discipline students with developmental disabilities who misbehaved. That investigation led the New York State Board of Regents to ban the practice in 2007.

Minton exposed gaps in airport security that led to calls by U.S. Senators in New York and New Jersey to screen bags and backpacks carried by airport workers into secure areas in and around passenger terminals. He reported on a history of New York City Transit “unlearned lessons” from subway fires that repeatedly left riders trapped.

In 2003 he discovered an organization that was so brazen in making fraudulent identity cards that it would make a phony New York driver's license in the name of a fugitive leader of a terrorist organization. Within days after the story was broadcast nationally, the operation was shut down and its creators became wanted themselves by federal and state authorities.

Minton also investigated attacks on patients in psychiatric wards and inadequate care for the mentally disabled living in group homes. His reports have chronicled discrimination against minority customers in trendy nightclubs and against women in the residential real estate industry. Reports on a pattern of deaths on the Taconic State Parkway caused by vehicles crossing the Parkway led the State to close crossings at 14 locations.

Minton came to WNBC from WABC-TV in New York where he was a lead reporter and investigative correspondent. Minton reported for WABC on the investigation into the crash of TWA Flight 800. He covered the terrorism trials of Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman and terrorists convicted of plotting to blow up a dozen U.S. jetliners.

Overseas, Minton reported from Israel on several occasions, including the 1995 assassination of Prime Minister Rabin. He also covered the Persian Gulf War from Tel Aviv.