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Joe Bergantino is the I-Team Reporter for CBS4 News, Boston.An investigative journalist for the past 27 years, Bergantino has done several stories that have had a major impact on the lives of New Englanders. For his extraordinary work, Bergantino has won many of broadcasting's most prestigious awards including a duPont-Columbia Award, a duPont-Columbia Citation, the Gabriel Award, eight Emmy Awards, the Robert F. Kennedy Award for reporting on the disadvantaged, several Associated Press and Radio and Television News Directors Association awards and has been nominated for two national Emmys for his work in 2002 and 2004.In 1992, Bergantino broke the story of Father James Porter, a priest who sexually assaulted dozens of children in the 1960's. Bergantino's stories led to Porter's imprisonment. It was the Porter case that prompted hundreds of priest sex abuse victims to file suit against the Boston Archdiocese. In 2002, the I-Team spent most of the year reporting on many of those cases made public for the first time in a new sex abuse scandal that eventually led to the resignation of Cardinal Bernard Law.In 2002, the I-Team single-handedly tracked down alleged rapist Father Paul Shanley in San Diego. Two days later, the priest was under - more available