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'Mocked' by her bosses, award-winning CBS TV reporter was fired. Then she sued

Investigative reporter Michele Gillen spent her career rooting out injustice.

One of South Florida's most recognizable TV personalities, Gillen worked at CBS-owned WFOR-TV Channel 4 for two decades - earning 25 prestigious regional Emmy Awards. She exposed inhumane treatment of mentally ill inmates in the Miami-Dade jail, leading to reforms. Earlier in her career, when Gillen was an NBC News correspondent in her native New York, her coverage prompted the government to create mammography machine standards.

"She was an excellent reporter," recalled former CBS executive Steve Mauldin, who led CBS' stations in Los Angeles, Dallas and

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