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Dale Cardwell


aboutdaleDale Cardwell is an Emmy award winning investigative reporter based in Atlanta.  Dale spent 25 years exposing business scams, political corruption and teaching viewers to become their own consumer advocate.

Dale began his career at WKAG in Hopkinsville, Kentucky.  His exposure of concerns related to the 1985 crash of a U-S Army chartered jet that killed 248 Fort Campbell soldiers in Gander Newfoundland, made international news and propelled Dale to a prominent investigative role with the CBS-TV affiliate in Birmingham, Alabama.

Dale went on to serve investigative reporting stints for WRAL-TV in Raleigh and WSMV in Nashville before landing as a consumer investigative reporter for WSB-TV Atlanta, the #1 station in the nation’s eighth largest television market.

In 1996, Dale joined with consumer expert Clark Howard to form the nation’s number one consumer reporting team.  Clark and Dale won numerous awards for their business reporting,  and under Clark’s tutelage, Dale became an expert at recognizing financial scams and determining the components that separate sound financial investments from those that are “too good to be true.”

In early 2000, WSB expanded Dale’s role to include ferreting out political corruption and taxpayer abuse.  Dale’s reporting saved Georgians tens of millions of dollars, led to the jailing of some of Atlanta’s most notorious politicians, and caused others to be removed from office.  *(see well known Dale Cardwell investigations)

Dale left WSB in late 2007 to run for the United States Senate.  Claiming that our government had been all but “bought” by corporate-financed special interests, Dale refused PAC (political action committee) contributions, but still captured nearly 25% of the primary vote in Georgia’s populous North/Central counties.

Today Dale manages his company, TrustDale.com and travels around the nation advising companies and clients on financial and consumer protection matters.  Dale and his wife of 23 years Angie, a hospice nurse, make their home along with their two children in DeKalb County, Georgia.