About The Author
Bill Moushey
Bill Moushey is a long-time award-winning journalist whose stories have won numerous local, regional and national awards. He won the prestigious 1997 National Press Clubs Freedom of Information Award and being named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for his groundbreaking expose of an out-of-control federal witness protection program in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. He has written extensively about misconduct by federal agents and prosecutors, and published numerous probes into organized crime, political corruption and the underbelly of life. In 2001, he started the Innocence Institute of Point Park University in Pittsburgh, a journalism based innocence project, which has been responsible for the reversal of 13 criminal convictions (www.pointpark.edu/innocence). He lives in suburban Pittsburgh with his wife Kristine, and two children, Wil III, a student athlete at SUNY Albany, N.Y., and Leah, who attends Syracuse University. He is an Associate Professor in Point Park’s School of Communication.
William Parise
William Parise is a Butler native who has demonstrated sports excellence as a football player, gymnast, agent and coach. He was captain of an undefeated high school football team, captain of an undefeated college team and recorded 102 victories with only one defeat as a gymnastics coach, which earned him admission into the Butler County Sports Hall of Fame. A graduate of the University of New Mexico, he also has also done post-graduate work in exercise physiology. After his career as an athlete and a coach, he developed a reputation as a gifted leader and businessman during 35 years as chief operation officer of YMCAs in Western Pennsylvania. His crowning achievement was his effort to transform a near bankrupt Beaver County YMCA into one of the finest such organizations in America, raising funds to build a state-of-the-art 72,000 square foot facility that has 11,000 members. Parise has also led the football operations of SMMI Inc., a professional sports representation agency, since 1987.
He lives in Beaver County, Pa, with his wife Linda. The couple has been married for 39 years. The couple has a son and daughter, who was a state champion high school sprinter and a college athlete.
